Chicken and egg surely? Why are billionaires able to control the press?

Isn’t that just a consequence of the problem - albeit a very important one? Money is power. Even if billionaires couldn’t control the press, they could control governments and thus control fiscal policy.

On the Notts/Derbys border, red-cross flags have appeared on several lamp-posts near a hotel in which immigrants are being temporarily housed and where opponents have been demonstrating. There can be little doubt in this case that “Keep Out” is the motivation and intended meaning.

It’s a shame that the Church Commissioners don’t follow this example in the vast tracts of land that they own - eg in the Fens, where their mismanagement of huge areas of land in their ownership “sits at odds with their professed environmental ethics” (“The Lie of the Land” by Guy Shrubsole).

I’m so glad that, this time, I voted Green. It may not have achieved anything in representative terms, but it helps me to avoid the shame that I would otherwise have felt for helping into power a government whose actions are destructive of everything I hold dear.