All this is fed by the low state to which our mainstream media has sunk.


After the end of the Great War people discovered that the stories about atrocities committed by German soldiers were either untrue or grossly exaggerated.

When stories started coming out of Germany in the 1930s about people being murdered and herded into camps people started saying "we've heard all this before".

I don't just refer to the obvious culprits like "The Sun" and "The Daily Mail" - all the national dailies distort the truth or are selective in their stories. They all have agendas of some kind usually defined by the people who own them- "The Guardian" is one of the worst culprits - and as for BBC News - an oxymoron.

Hence people are given a wide choice in what to believe and can choose their own "facts".

I refuse to read any of the national dailies on the grounds that if someone had consistently lied to me or tried to manipulate over a number of years I wouldn't want to know them.

Couple of lighthearted looks at intolerance:-

Jeremy Taylor:"Liberal Man"

and a bit of a caution against the "handbags at 50 paces" here:-


Jonathan Pie