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Aug 15, 2023Liked by Titus Arrius

I never watch the BBC News, or ITV News. GBN is my chosen channel. I don’t read The Grauniad - I did as a 20 something but as my salary increased and I became a homeowner and started thinking about what sort of country I wanted for my children I switched to the Telegraph. I would have voted for Brexit even though it disadvantaged me as an expat with a home in the EU, because I thought that it was the right thing for the country. Turned out I wasn’t on the Electoral Register. Apparently there is a Bill to re-enfranchise us overseas Brits, which must be good for the Tories so they had better get it done before the next election.

I can’t believe the spinelessness of the Tories; Truss was right as has been proven by her successor doing exactly what she did but getting away with it due to better PR.

I use Duck Duck Go as my search engine and browser. Maybe the former would be better for your research, although I know it farms out the requests to other browsers such as Bing. Or you could try getting a subscription to ChatGPT.

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I agree with you about the spinelessness of the Tories. People are very frustrated, but what can you expect when they have no principles to stick to? I do use Duck Duck Go, thanks, and a use few other little tricks to get around the biased results. Good luck with getting your vote.

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Aug 15, 2023Liked by Titus Arrius

Thank you, that was a really good article which very convincingly demonstrated just how the left-leaning media spin the news to suit a particular agenda. Slant, smear and omission.

We all know it, we all see it every day, but it’s excellent to have actual tangible evidence laid out for us.

This insidious trend has been building for years, it’s so bad now that hopefully it’s becoming more obvious to people in general, not just political nerds like me. I always bear in mind that one of the pillars of communism is propaganda. Spin is propaganda’s little brother.

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Indeed, spin is propaganda's little brother. The idea is to feed a drip by drip diet of slanted information, leaving out inconvenient truths. I don't bear animosity to certain minority groups, but I do object to them being either elevated, or denigrated, for political purposes. Designating people 'victims' when, often they are only a victim of their irresponsible and/or illegal choices is an insult to the majority of our society.

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