But by 2015 we had a top-tier of people who would listen to the repugnant little fash crank Michael Gove brandishing a hoax letter about Muslim conspirators waging secret war on high schools, say “Thank you sir, how scary” then simply repeat what he had said on TV, radio and in front pages.

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We always had stenographers: people who just repeat whatever they’re told then restrict analysis to who is up, who’s down and whether the government is having a tricky time. But there were people who were paid to look at this stuff and analyse whether it was true, and explain what was going on.

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twitter is a nicer and friendlier place than bluesky: false bluesky has some of the most aggressively hectoring, pedantic weirdos on the entire internet: true

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You have to speak for the EU, Kallas: I doubt that you received a consensus from all foreign ministers in the Council so quickly after the events.

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