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Tim Stanley

Aug 22, 2019 • 3 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X

Read that superb Dorothy Byrne lecture on the media & politics - funny & savage - but her two questions answer themselves: should journalists call politicians liars & why don't politicians do TV anymore? Well, that's why. Because they think they'll be called liars. And...

thanks to the internet, they can afford to turn down a TV appearance. Sure Thatcher & Kinnock did a lot of TV in 1987 (although Heath did, I think, just one broadcast interview in Feb 74?) but back then they *had* to. What's changed in just 3 years is politicians have realised

they no longer have to. The power balance has shifted. Hence, many news programmes now struggle to get politicians. Maybe a new approach is needed: not the threat of "let us call out your lies" but the offer of a fairminded discussion? That's what a lot of old TV was like.

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Feb 1, 2020

Brexit would never have happened without the Telegraph. It fell to me, as the Sunday leader writer, to tell the story of the Sunday Telegraph's war against the EU - which goes back decades. I found an editorial calling for a referendum in 1990. telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/…

I never knew how badly we fell out with John Major over the ERM: we actually backed Redwood to replace him in 1995. I started writing for the Sunday in 2012 (don't worry, I've kept a diary) & my first ever editorial was a thumbs up to Mitt Romney. Since then we've done our

best to articulate Burkean conservatism - moderate, good humoured, patriotic, capitalist, democratic & with a passion for freedom (and all the wealth and eccentricity that flows from it). The incredible thing is how much we've won: not just Brexit, but Corbyn lost & Boris is PM.

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Dec 8, 2019

Last week of the election, let me tell a great story by the late Frank Dobson, minus, of course, the swear words. 1953. The big issue was the Cold War. Lena Jeger was a Labour candidate in a Camden by-election. She climbed several flights of stairs to the top of a tower block &

knocked on a door. A cockney lady answered. "Hello," said Jeger breathlessly, "I am your Labour candidate & I'd like to talk to you about the dangers of Germany being encouraged to re-arm."
"Did you just climb the stairwell?" said the cockney.
"Yes."
"It smells of pee, don't it?"

"I suppose it does," said Jeger.
"What are you gonna do about folk peeing in my stairwell?"
"I don't think there is anything I can do."
"Well then" said the cockney, "if you can't stop people peeing in my stairwell, I don't see how you're going to stop the Germans from rearming."

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