The “obsessed with bashing Britain” US media has sparked outrage for running “monumentally ignorant” content claiming Britain is in decline and the Brexit fantasy is “over.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the past years, numerous articles, many with front-page coverage, depict Britain as a plague-ridden, impoverished hellhole in terminal decline. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sometimes the abuse is so outrageous that the only reasonable response is to laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Recently, the New York Times ran a comment piece by politics and culture commentator Richard Seymour titled “The Fantasy of Brexit Britain Is Over”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Mr Seymour described Britain after Covid and Boris Johnson resigned as “economically stagnant, socially fragmented, and politically adrift.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He added, “The right’s Brexit fantasy \u2014 of a revitalised Britain, freed from the shackles of Europe and able once again to confidently assert itself at home and abroad \u2014 is finished.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The right was outraged by his article. “Stupid and monumentally ignorant anti-Brexit propaganda from the left-wing New York Times, which is obsessed with bashing Britain,” said Nile Gardiner, a former Margaret Thatcher aide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its British coverage has devolved into a farce. Except for a few zealous Remainers, no one takes it seriously. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The New York Times is the official newspaper of the United States. It has long outgrown its confines in New York City. It is now a national publication with a global audience thanks to its thriving digital edition. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As America faces dictatorships on the march from Moscow to Beijing, its most powerful newspaper prefers to rail against Brexit Britain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the 1930s, The New York Times won a Pulitzer Prize for its coverage of the Soviet Union. Without a doubt, it can now look forward to another for its Brexit Britain claims.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The “obsessed with bashing Britain” US media has sparked outrage for running “monumentally ignorant” content claiming Britain is in decline and the Brexit fantasy is “over.” For the past years, … <\/p>\n