Is it because a moron can’t turn off a TV in a hotel room?

It's funny how much the BBC and Labour have in common. Challenged by the Right, they immediately throw their base under a bus, in a doomed and foolish attempt to appease those who will always hate them.

We are at risk of losing all the post-war progress towards sane & decent humanity and I never thought people would give it up so easily.

The peace was so hard fought and the lessons were written down so we would remember. Yet here we are.

Labour has pledged to expand the use of camps, at vastly more cost than hotels, and which still cause community tensions, while failing to properly invest in community schemes, you know which cost less and provide better accommodation for people seeking asylum while supporting whole communities. 2/

This is a great thread, but this conclusion is I think demonstrably false — the US did okay for decades without a single source. What it had, I think, were a number of trusted sources, that tended broadly to stick to facts and so to agree among themselves about what was actually happening

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.