Jabberwock I was astounded at your comment "of course, J.A doesn't have our left wing press". I really have to respond because your statement can't be borne out by the facts.
The Open Democracy website provides what I believe is very convincing evidence of a UK newspaper industry that is very heavily biased in favour of the right. A comprehensive table of ownership/political stance clearly demonstrates the strong right wing bias of the majority of British newspapers. Some extracts from an April 2019 article:
"The UK media has a very concentrated ownership structure, with six billionaires owning and/or having a majority of voting shares in most of the national newspapers.
"True editorial independence often doesn’t exist in these papers. The owners can – and do – interfere with what is published in their publications, which editors and journalists are promoted or fired as well as which political parties the paper supports.
"For example, Harold Evans, a former editor at the Sunday Times, made it very clear to the Leveson Inquiry how Rupert Murdoch interfered with the content of the paper..................."
In 2019 The Independent reported:
"Academics at Loughborough University analysed the extent to which different print outlets ran positive and negative stories about different UK political parties in the first week of the 2019 general election campaign.
"They found that the Labour Party was overwhelmingly targeted with negative coverage by the papers, while in certain publications positive stories were almost exclusively reserved for Boris Johnson’s Tory party..........
"The UK is one of the worst-ranked countries in western Europe for press freedom, according to NGO reporters without borders – ranked 33 out of 180 in the world in 2019."
Sorry to other posters for going off the original subject.
