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‘Real Democracy Can Counter Division and Hate’
Edition 74 – June 2025
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Contents
In Edition 74 – June 2025
Edition 74 – June 2025 – Cover + Contents
1
The Kindness of Strangers
2
The Tribunal of Truth: Byline Times Joins Press Regulator
3
News In Brief – Catching Up With Old Friends
4
Peter Oborne’s Diary – Return of the Oligarchs
5
Bad Press Awards: Melanie Phillips Wins the Mirror Ball for Opinion Writing Self-Regard
6
How the BBC’s Flawed Approach to Impartiality Scuppered a Podcast About a Heating System
7
The British Political-Media Class’ Mainstreaming of the Populist Radical-Right
8
Can Journalism and Democracy Survive Social Media?
9
Mandrake – Sunshine State Benefits
10
Falling for Farage
11
A Coalition of Contradictions: Who Is Voting for Reform?
12
Disappointment in Dartford –Triumph for Reform
13
‘In These TikTok Times, Nigel Farage Knows Personality Trumps Trust’
14
Why aren’t the Greens shooting through?
15
Low Voter Turnout Challenges Populists’ Claims to Speak For the ‘Silent Majority’
16
Political Musings – Labour Is Obsessed With Change
17
Sonia Purnell’s Perspectives – The obsessive short-termism and insularity of our political class
18
The Storehouse of Truth or Lies?
19
‘We Need Psychological Herd Immunity to Create a Resilient Social Media Society’
20
‘Real Democracy Can Counter Division and Hate’
21
‘The Problem With Misinformation Is the Problem With Information’
22
‘Where Once There Was God, Now There Is Code’: The Lure of Life In The Matrix
23
Science Fiction Gets to Truths Journalism Misses
24
Notes on Now – It Was the City of the Future
25
The Bitter After-Taste of the Candy Man’s Conspiracy
26
Don’t Mention Trump
27
The Trump Bump Becomes the Trump Slump
28
‘Starmer Did Not Need to Manufacture Unpopularity For Its Own Sake – Now Farage Waits in the Wings’
29
Political Economy – ‘UK’s Trade Deals Show How the World is Evolving in Response to the Trump Shock’
30
Zeitgeisters – Rebecca Solnit
31
Myth of the Month – Tall Tales
32
The Upside Down – Monkey Magic
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