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A thread to chart it's continued fall from "paper of record" to CCHQ press releases but with crosswords.

I'll look back to last November for an example of it's obvious grifting:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/1 ... ways-wins/

Curiously, they never mention that the Oxford vaccine came about due to a sudden and enormous investment from the state and that Oxford insisted to their manufacturing & distribution partner that their vaccine be provided at cost for the reminder of the pandemic.

Nor does The Torygraph examine capitalism's role in perpetuating the virus spread by forcing people to go back to work after testing positive because otherwise they would starve. Or needing to keep schools open despite them being hotbeds of infection because they essentially provide free daycare for children of working parents (though I will concede that remaining isolated and cooped up at home is dreadful for children and their development).

Or that this whole pandemic was started because of appalling conditions of wet markets in China that provide affordable food for a majority of the population allowing the viral particle to jump over into infecting humans.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Wed Apr 28, 2021 10:11 am A thread to chart it's continued fall from "paper of record" to CCHQ press releases but with crosswords.

I'll look back to last November for an example of it's obvious grifting:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/1 ... ways-wins/

Curiously, they never mention that the Oxford vaccine came about due to a sudden and enormous investment from the state and that Oxford insisted to their manufacturing & distribution partner that their vaccine be provided at cost for the reminder of the pandemic. Nor does The Torygraph examine capitalism's rule in perpetuating the virus spread by forcing people to go back to work after testing positive because otherwise they would starve. Or needing to keep schools open despite them being hotbeds of infection because they essentially provide free daycare for children of working parents (though I will concede that remaining isolated and cooped up at home is dreadful for children and their development).

Or that this whole pandemic was started because of appalling conditions of wet markets in China that provide affordable food for a majority of the population allowing the viral particle to jump over into infecting humans.

Or indeed Skiing in Italy for Christmas.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/202 ... r-british/

In which the Maily Telegraph is shocked to discover that neoliberal capitalism creates trade cartels.

Browsing the internet for happy things form my younger years.
Imagine my shock to find a Telegraph denunciation of the Wombles (Dated 2020).

Is nobody safe fomr the culture war?

What have the litter-picking wokes of Wimbledon Common been doing wrong?

They didn't "Clean for the Queen".

Youngian wrote: ↑Sun Oct 24, 2021 9:08 pm What have the litter-picking wokes of Wimbledon Common been doing wrong?

Woke, or something.
The rest was paywalled.

Only in the Telegraph.

Rather disrespectful to Mrs, Tebbitt.

I would ask who normalised food banks?

Nay, even praised them as an example of British charity...

https://archive.md/Weejt

Headline is far harsher than the article body alas.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... news-left/

Presumably the BBC called for the violent overthrow of this government and its replacement by a Workers' Soviet?

Charles Moore remains a ridiculous man writing for a ridiculous publication.

Oblomov wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 11:15 am https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/0 ... news-left/

Presumably the BBC called for the violent overthrow of this government and its replacement by a Workers' Soviet?

Charles Moore remains a ridiculous man writing for a ridiculous publication.

I don't tune in to a lot of serious political discussion, but when I do, the Telegraph is frequently laughed off the podium.

By which I mean.
1. Serious conservative thinkers no longer quote it to support their points.
2. Rabble rousing types wanting a clever publication have moved onto the Spectator.
3. Even conservativehome comments ridicule people who lean on the Telegraph for evidence.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... t-britain/

Those rotten antipodean lefties are ruining Brexit, sayeth the Maily Torygraph.

Lying racist liars.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... een-statue

Sadiq Khan received racist abuse after false reports he blocked Queen statue
The Telegraph claimed the London mayor had ruled out a sculpture of the late Queen on Trafalger Square’s fourth plinth

The Royal Family hadn't even expressed an interest in having a statue on the fourth plinth.

Shock as Telegraph tells truth

Project Fear was right all along
Six years of policy confusion and ineptitude has brought a calamitous loss of standing

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/20 ... ght-along/

On the one hand it was an opinion piece, not editorial, and he's said much the same before.

On the other hand it got through the editorial meeting and into print.

Confusion and ineptitude to blame for Brexit failure but not the concept itself.

Is the gist of this paywalled article that confusion and ineptitude is to blame for Brexit failure but not the concept itself?