Many people yearn for a Press that is fairer and more balanced. They deprecate partisanship, and sometimes admiringly point to supposedly more even-handed American newspapers.
Yet it is the outrageous partiality of British publications, especially the tabloids, that often leads to light being shone into the murkier recesses of our political life. Partygate and Beergate are two cases in point.
The broke Partygate. It believes Boris Johnson is a liar, a scoundrel and an awful human being. It guns for him at every opportunity. in May 2020 to reveal that the errant chief adviser had breached COVID regulations by undertaking a jaunt to Barnard Castle.
