I admit I take a certain amount of pleasure in the fact that a guy with an Irish background is being such a complete pain in the neck to the British Establishment. They absolutely loath charismatic working-class leaders.
This is the front page of today’s Sun.
Take a minute to watch this bizarre monologue from Richard Madeley yesterday:
'Will you answer the question Mr Lynch, I won't let you get away with nonsense'@richardm56 grills the General Secretary of the RMT, Mick Lynch over striking over the Christmas period pic.twitter.com/htcqFREQM9
— Good Morning Britain (@GMB) December 13, 2022
He is also calling out the ‘impartial’ BBC:
Mick Lynch from the @RMTunion calling out the BBC for repeating govt propaganda and the attack lines used by the right wing press.👏👏👏 #r4today pic.twitter.com/PnVIZsLGQr
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 13, 2022
But the press is not as powerful as it used to be. Newspaper sales are down two-thirds in 20 years. Most young people now get their news from social media, especially Tiktok. The old vilification tactics are not as powerful as they once were.
I help to manage Slugger by taking care of the site as well as running our live events. My background is in business, marketing and IT. My politics tend towards middle-of-the-road pragmatism, I am not a member of any political party. Oddly for a member of the Slugger team, I am not that interested in daily politics, preferring to write about big ideas in society. When not stuck in front of a screen, I am a parkrun Run Director.
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