Much more so recently, I would say. It's a trend across the media. The main values are of clicks, immediate provocation and/or entertainment and impact, because those are the values of social me… (View Post)

Farage ? No, actually I think you're right. Murdoch has completely debased debate, as well as shared public culture, to such an extent as without that, I doubt we've had any Farage. (View Post)

Indeed. Cummings seems to perceive himself as some of rave-era anarchist, which may relate to his period in his 'twenties working as a doorman in Durham. Unfairly blocked seems exactly the issue… (View Post)

I think the Guardian's lurch at times recently toward one-track dogmatism must be equally off-putting to some of its older liberal readers. Even after Thatcher destroyed so much in British publi… (View Post)

"A man is a man and a woman is a woman" can also be read as a plea for a 1950's paradise of very straightforward gender roles for all men and women, regardless of sexuality, and well b… (View Post)