Boris Johnson loves a catchphrase – Build Build Build, Get Brexit Done, Make Britain Great Again – but his go-to phrase in coronavirus lockdown was never quite delivered with the same relish.
Does Johnson, educated at Eton and Oxford, gifted his first job in journalism at The Times, truly believe that “we’re all in this together”?
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“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it,” said Winston Churchill.
The history of Churchill has been written by many – including an ex-journalist called Boris Johnson – but a new chapter has been opened by the Black Lives Matter protests.
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Intellectuals are a “herd of independent minds”[i] wrote the art critic Harold Rosenberg.
Few things chime with the phrase like the reaction of mainstream journalists to Keir Starmer’s first Prime Minister’s Questions as leader of the Labour Party:
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“The media is the most powerful entity on earth” wrote Malcolm X. “They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent.”
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Jeremy Corbyn has spent decades serving his parliamentary constituency and campaigning on issues like gay rights, anti-racism, anti-Apartheid and against acts of war such as the UK-US invasion of Iraq.
How this man came to be viewed as a “threat to national security”1 and “an existential threat to Jewish life”2 is a remarkable demonstration of the mainstream media’s ability to distort reality.
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The Free Press? 