by Gavin Lewis / April 12th, 2021
We can hardly count ourselves lucky in the west and particularly Britain, given the level of media corruption and collusion with sites of power. As Pulitzer Prize Winning journalist Glenn Greenwald put it…
The worst media in the democratic world is the British media, and it’s not even close. I know it’s hard for people in other countries who hate their own media to believe, but whatever you hate about your country’s media, the UK media has in abundance and worse.
To all extents and purposes in the UK we have lost our mainstream democratic sphere. But over the last 20 years we can count ourselves fortunate that we have had the work of Media Lens – staffed by David Cromwell and David Edwards – shining a spotlight on the enormous volume of journalistic and professional political caste abuses.
Thursday, 11 February 2021, 6:33 am
The name Arnold Ridley will be familiar to many viewers
of ‘Dad’s Army’, one of Britain’s best-loved TV
comedies, which ran a long time ago (1968-1977) but is still
shown on prime time BBC TV.
Ridley played Private
Godfrey, the loveable, most doddery member of a Second World
War platoon of elderly Home Guard troops tasked
with defending a stretch of the British coast ‘from the
Novelty Rock Emporium to Stone’s Amusement
Arcade’.
Godfrey would typically interrupt
preparations to repel Nazi stormtroopers with observations
such as, ‘My sister Dolly makes very nice cucumber
sandwiches.’ It was lovely, gentle humour, contrasting the