[The Weeping Angel]

Normal headline in the Telegraph

[Oboogie]

Do you know who he is referring to?

[The Weeping Angel]

Starmer.

[Rosvanian]

I looked him up.

Professor Emeritus of French history at Cambridge., duel French-British nationality.

An absolute pillar of the loathed academic elite except he's right wing, loves Brexit, makes a lot of noise about hating Commies, so gets the front page of the Telegraph.

[Rosvanian]

Robert Tombs - I looked him up.

Professor Emeritus of French history at Cambridge., duel French-British nationality.

An absolute pillar of the loathed academic elite except he's right wing, loves Brexit, makes a lot of noise about hating Commies, and so gets the front page of the Telegraph.

[Oboogie]

If he thinks Starmer's done more than any other leader in 300 years, he doesn't know anything about British political history.

[Dalem Lake]

The article in question is a rambling rant as you'd imagine. Exports down? Nothing to do with Brexit, it's the deep state in Whitehall!
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... s-starmer/

[The Weeping Angel]

I see Aaron Bastani is writing for the telegraph.

[Oboogie]

I wonder what difference it's new ownership (by RedBird Capital) will make?

https://www.ft.com/content/40e1465d-788 ... 3cc3b59654

[Abernathy]

Probably fuck all difference. They won't want to alienate too much of their established Tory readership, though what the buggering fuck they're doing employing Bastani is a bit of a mystery.

[Dalem Lake]

He probably hates Starmer and the Labour government as much as they do. GB News are also quite keen to have him on.

[Rosvanian]

Probably fuck all difference. They won't want to alienate too much of their established Tory readership, though what the buggering fuck they're doing employing Bastani is a bit of a mystery.

Just a wild guess but I suspect it will continue its journey to the furthest reaches of the vicious, snarling, intolerant right, where a million soulless, piss-poor, dead-eyed hacks will be fighting over who can be the biggest cunt of them all - with a few nice receipes, music reviews and short break suggestions thown in for balance.

[Oboogie]

The Telegraph dares to critcise the BBC's impartiality whilst themselves making shit up ...