On Fox News on 24 June, Carlson, in front of a screen with the words “anti-white mania”, raged that the US could “become Rwanda”.

Republicans have compared Democrats to Nazis & a "news" host suggested tens of thousands of Americans should be executed.'

theguardian.com/us-news/2021/j…
In 2018, Sky News Australia sparked outcry after it broadcast an interview with a far-right #nationalist #extremist who has expressed his admiration for #Hitler.

Sky News Australia CEO Angelos Frangopoulos downplayed it as "an error of judgment".

Frangopoulos is GB "News" CEO. ImageImageImage
GB News' creators clearly believe that US-style grievance politics can sustain at least a low-budget, tactically neutered version of Fox.

GB "News" is a right-wing TV "news" channel. Britain hasn’t had one of those before. The shift is real.

@helenlewis

theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Trying to find guests for “Uncancelled” who truly cannot get a hearing elsewhere would mean booking flat-earthers, extreme religious fundamentalists, or actual Nazis."

Many of the most listened to voices in British media try their hardest to get canceled. Think about that. 🤔 ImageImageImageImage
If GB News wants to “puncture the pomposity of our elites,” then it should acknowledge that no group fits that description more than the small number of shutdown skeptics employed by right-wing papers & GB News - 71% supported the delay in lifting the coronavirus restrictions. Image
"Political polarization in the US seems to have been turbocharged by a hermetic right-wing media universe built on paranoia, resentment, and mistrust of authority. As GB News matures, the channel may test how receptive Britain is to culture-war topics brought over from the US." Image
"Already, Brexit influencers have imported the vocabulary of the American right (snowflakes, triggered, woke) as well as the idea that “owning the libs” is a political goal in itself."

In a piece for ConservativeHome, hard-right crank Donal Blaney wrote: “As these triggered snowflakes wail uncontrollably in impotent fury into their kale, lentil, & chai lattes this morning, and for months to come, all at GB News need to channel their inner Churchill.” ImageImageImage
"Perhaps GB News will bait @Ofcom the British television-news regulator - with ever more polarized content, and then pose as a cancel-culture victim if given an official rebuke. Little by little, the channel could chip away at the British principle of neutrality in broadcasting." Image

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Imho, this is culture-war-lite garbage, set up on a completely false premise: the idea that anyone exists who actually advocates for schools having NO rules.

This condescending, pompous & regressive 1950s hard-right throwback, adored by the Right, actually runs a school! 😳
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So why on earth would Downing St release the cropped photo on the right?

Or if they didn't, why would @PoliticsForAlI say they did?
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Was this lazy, deliberate, or something else?

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Well Mr Adam Shit-Stirrer Hilton, in 2004 (17 years ago) Charles Moore was Telegraph editor when stories about George Galloway were published, which led to a successful libel action.

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Moore was Chair of free-market think tank Policy Exchange, & in 2007 (14 years ago) he entered the debate over 'The Hijacking of British Islam', a misleading & widely condemned Policy Exchange report which the @BBC had found relied on fabricated evidence.

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It's just part of their sad little backward-looking culture war, supported by Andrew Neil.
And all because the National Trust rightly wanted to provide context & mention some important details about the history of some of their buildings.

Imagine the National Trust providing relevant contextualising information!

IT'S WOKE ANTI-BRITISH POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD!
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