Whether it’s the latest ‘Greek crisis’ or Rupert Murdoch endorsing Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader, it feels like we’ve entered a portal into Wonderland“Why can’t you believe that Rupert Murdoch might have actually acquired a conscience?” inquired an email correspondent, incensed at a facetious reference to the News Corp overlord’s professed admiration for Jeremy Corbyn. “You should try it.” Try acquiring a conscience, or try acquiring the belief that Murdoch has just acquired one? (Presumably on the billionaire black market, where I’m told you can purchase the conscience of a dead Victorian child for the price of a mining concession in the Urals or an authenticity algorithm.)I get a lot of this correspondence nowadays, and I’ll level with you: I don’t think we’re in Kansas any more. Once angry lefties start telling you to give Rupert Murdoch a break, I don’t think we’re even down the rabbit hole any longer. Geologists/quantum physicists: is it possible the rabbit hole had a concealed basement, which has recently been opened up, forming a portal into another dimension which makes Wonderland look like a place of absolute suburban unremarkability?In this fast-moving WTFscape, the only newspaper which is not cast as Tory or red Tory is the Morning Star Related: Jeremy Corbyn to apologise for Iraq war on behalf of Labour if he becomes leader Continue reading...
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