This is the first of these reports released after flooding the public sphere with idiotic, intentionally inflammatory horseshit intended to infuriate the old 24/7 became an urgent main priority of the British government, and not just the business model of the national press. 
This is what all the pundits are skirting round, declining to say explicitly: it doesn’t just *look like* the government are intentionally filling the airwaves and news stands with vexatious, intentionally meaningless drivel. That is what it is, what they strive for every day.
I’ve lived through several incidents like this now, being old as fuck, but this isn’t anything like the worst. Some hacks and MPs are at least making pissy comments about the stuff they’re being invited to treat with respect today, which didn’t happen so much in 2003 or 2019.
This is what it’s always like though: Sensible voices on TV and in the press taking plainly deranged and idiotic ideas deadly seriously and harshly criticising anyone who suggests they’re ludicrous, with only the most apologetic forms of disagreement considered permissible.
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