It is difficult to know where to start today but my conclusion is obvious; as someone once said, satire died the day that Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Sorry to mention the "B" word here. Didn't we get Brexit because of "concerns about immigration" that needed to be "addressed".
And, as we know, if we don't first determine whether a "concern" is based in reality or fantasy before we address it, we can end campaigning for a remedy for a baseless concern. But I'm not sure we've yet learnt that treating baseless concerns as real can result in serious, long-term harm or permanent disability, or even death. A bit like treating serious illness in a healthy, well individual.
This behaviour is like kids in the playground. They know what they do, know it’s wrong so get their retaliation in as early as possible and accuse others of their own crimes. Bad enough in kids, pathetic and appalling in adults. Simply disgraceful in unaccountable organs like the tory press and especially in the BBC, which ought to know better (like when they let Lawson bang on about there being no climate change without any challenge in the alleged interests of ‘balance’)
When I saw the Express headline the other day asking ~ ‘Why can only the rich get the new Alzheimers drug’ I thought it was a parody. Have they no shame?
“Shame” - an interesting concept, but one that generally seems to need a degree of self awareness plus a few brain cells to rub together - both things that ‘attack dogs’, as Jonty puts it, don’t have.
Sorry to mention the "B" word here. Didn't we get Brexit because of "concerns about immigration" that needed to be "addressed".
And, as we know, if we don't first determine whether a "concern" is based in reality or fantasy before we address it, we can end campaigning for a remedy for a baseless concern. But I'm not sure we've yet learnt that treating baseless concerns as real can result in serious, long-term harm or permanent disability, or even death. A bit like treating serious illness in a healthy, well individual.
This behaviour is like kids in the playground. They know what they do, know it’s wrong so get their retaliation in as early as possible and accuse others of their own crimes. Bad enough in kids, pathetic and appalling in adults. Simply disgraceful in unaccountable organs like the tory press and especially in the BBC, which ought to know better (like when they let Lawson bang on about there being no climate change without any challenge in the alleged interests of ‘balance’)
When I saw the Express headline the other day asking ~ ‘Why can only the rich get the new Alzheimers drug’ I thought it was a parody. Have they no shame?
“Shame” - an interesting concept, but one that generally seems to need a degree of self awareness plus a few brain cells to rub together - both things that ‘attack dogs’, as Jonty puts it, don’t have.
Par for the course. I’m looking forward to the conservative leadership contest really taking off.