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Friday, August 21, 2015

In this rabbit hole of an August, politics is morphing into satire

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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