Keep It Dense, Keep It Futile, Yeah?

A spectre is haunting the UK, the spectre of republicanism, and to a lesser extent, communism. Recently, everyone's favourite producer of benighted drollery, Nigel Farage, said this: " If we destroy the monarchy then we destroy something special about our country. Harry and Meghan are doing their very best to make that become a reality. " - Tweet link Come on, Nige, what's special about the monarchy?  It's an anachronistic aberration that institutionalises its members by keeping them inured to centuries-old feudal dogma under the guise of "tradition" and "convention". The sort of traditions and conventions that actively negate any semblance of humanity that a royal might otherwise, albeit "accidentally", express. They are stripped of all of the qualities that we usually consider human and instead are compelled to live a strict and rigid life guided by incommunicable, nonsensical rules that were written the best part of a millennia ago

I'm very critical of the media as an institution, as are most lefty-do-gooders, and with good reason. Once upon a time, it would've been easy to reason that the purpose of the media was to bring us news, views and investigations into the world around us, and you'd be right to do so. I do concede though that, to some degree, that is still the case. But the additional role it plays today serves a particular, different purpose and different interests.  The conversations between journo-hacks on Twitter can be incredibly informative. In these two Tweets where they both self-fellate over the new right-wing GB News channel, neither Hodges nor McGee seem to be aware of this dual purpose of the media. They're not even aware of the role they play, which they assume is simply being a journalist. In their minds, their roles are that of a crusading and self-righteous profession that speaks truth to power. As we know now, nothing could be further from the truth.  Hodges response to M