Thread by @Telegraph

🗣️“Despite what you've heard, I didn't load the gun for the Capitol Hill attack”, writes Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.

“The BBC wanted to tell a story about runaway conspiracies, and use me – and my reports from decades ago – as a theatre prop”

Thread 🧵👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/0…

"One might have sought the origins of this insurrection in the rise of all-powerful social media companies worth trillions and trillions," Ambrose says.

❓"Are they not tossing lit matches into this mass of crackling-dry brushwood every day?"

"But no, apparently the violent convulsions of the world’s paramount economic and strategic superpower can be✍️ traced to a British journalist in the early 1990s"

💬"I loaded the gun a quarter century ago and laid it on the table, or so the BBC would have it...

"...just waiting for the horned shirtless QAnon shaman to snatch it at the right moment, and lead the Trumpian mobs into Nancy Pelosi’s office"

➡️"But at the risk of spoiling a good story, I have to declare my interest," Ambrose writes.

"I rooted quietly for Hillary Clinton in 2016 on the grounds that she was by then no longer the same political animal that she once was"

🗣️"I had by then concluded that Donald Trump was a proto-fascist with the reflexes of Mussolini.

"I thought he would try to overturn the election by any means possible, and watched with foreboding as the expected Putsch unfolded"

✍️"Could the BBC’s Gabriel Gatehouse not find better material than the ramblings of a superannuated Brit, who sheepishly agreed to give him an hour and a half on the request that he wanted to 'mine my memory' for characters to talk to for his series?"

💬"This episode invites a response, in part because it sheds light on the mental universe of the BBC...

"...a taxpayer-funded institution accused by many of chronic ideological bias in breach of its charter"

"But it also needs a rebuttal because Gatehouse has the matter backwards"

Read Ambrose Evans-Pritchard's full response 👇
telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/01/0…