I am not surprised!

Who needs economic data when you have stories like that :)

It’s a serious and valid point, but your wording is great and made me laugh, thank you

Of course people often don’t value them enough to pay for them but that is the argument that needs to be made

There’s an opportunity to tie this in with the budget. Want prisons, policing, the BBC, NHS, social care, transport, housing, councils to work?

You’re going to have to pay for them

Good point

It’s been interesting watching the Guardian grow over there too, not the same league but clearly a growing part of their revenue

Subsidies to support alternative fact suppliers for reasons of national insecurity

Tbf he’s so thin skinned his outrage is entirely in character and I doubt he needs any deeper motivation

Those around him and some of his supporters and backers on the other hand

Hasn’t everyone signed the odd letter or petition while drunk? 🥴

A study earlier this month found that America’s more fragmented media landscape — particularly the takeoff of cable news — accounts for fully one third of the increase in cultural conflict in the US since the year 2000.

I’m not sure he’s a fan of things that are brown…