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Arrival of ‘clown who wanted to be king’ at No 10 is greeted with scepticism in Europe.
“We tried to talk you out of it, but you decided otherwise. Now you have to face the consequences.”
A local newspaper has blamed a combination of Brexit and the coronavirus pandemic for its decision to cease print publication.
Brexit, tabloid 'sulks', and AstraZeneca
23/03/2021
Having spent almost five years living in Brexit Britain, the tabloids' hostility towards the EU comes as no surprise to me. However, I was surprised to discover the theories surrounding the suspension of the AstraZeneca vaccine, in which European countries are accused of deliberately punishing the UK.
In this new Federal Trust video, Professor A.C.Grayling discusses the path by which he believes Brexit can and should be reversed.
"Britain has dialed 999 and is waiting in vain for the paramedics to show up" / German newspaper Der Spiegel has published an in-depth report into Britain’s demise from a global superpower to an isolated has-been.
Popular daily newspaper Liberation has claimed Brexit has brought "disappointing tomorrows" to the UK.
"The exit of Mr. Johnson, Brexit’s most charmed cheerleader, marks the demise of a fantasy." / “Economically stagnant, socially fragmented and politically adrift, the country is being cut down to size. The right’s Brexit fantasy — of a revitalized Britain, freed from the shackles of Europe and able once again to confidently assert itself at home and abroad — is finished,” Seymour writes.
EU’s seizing of initiative and avoidance of Theresa May’s ‘trap’ hailed by foreign press
Fuel crisis: European newspapers blame Brexit for the UK’s ‘dire situation’ at petrol station pumps
29/09/2021
Newspapers have splashed the UK’s struggle for fuel across their front pages as the Army mobilises to ensure petrol pumps don’t go dry.
“Politicians obscure exclusionary ideologies and policies behind inclusionary rhetoric that highlights the ‘value’ of migrant ‘contributions’," a doctoral researcher said.
As a correspondent, the likely future PM produced exaggerated tales that were lapped up at home.
As crises mount, the polls show voters turning at last. But the national newspapers that backed Leave – even the two now edited by Remainers – continue to pretend there is nothing wrong.
In October 2015, I gave a speech to international journalists in Germany called, ‘Newspaper lies can cost lives.’ Less than a year later, Britain voted for Brexit, with one of the main reasons cited as ‘too many migrants’. How did such a fear and dislike of migrants develop? Newspaper lies played an enormous role.
For many years, Daily Mail journalists have used underhand techniques to ensure Britain left the EU. / In the years leading up to the EU referendum, and since, the Daily Mail has published a daily deluge of stories that spread hatred of migrants and the EU.
Is Brexit going well? The same media outlets that blurted deafening pro-Leave messages have become eerily quiet of late.
In post-Brexit age of rampant nationalism how one media outlet is planning to offer a pan-European view
19/06/2022
It is six years since Brexit and Europe is beset by war but the United Kingdom’s Europhiles will this week be offered a novel chance to reconnect with the Continent.
The Mail’s chief revenue officer has said Brexit was bad for advertising – even though the brand has been one of the most vociferous backers of quitting the EU.
Williams is pushed to expand how Brexit has impacted business. “That is definitely having an effect on advertising spend, because of the UK economy,” he replies.
Mystery as ‘Russian woman posing as local resident’ targets newspapers with pro-Brexit letters in ‘disinformation campaign’
06/06/2019
Letters purporting to be from a Brexit-supporting Russian woman living in the UK have prompted claims of a targeted “disinformation” campaign after an allegedly “fake persona” was used to send anti-EU messages to regional newspapers.
Nick Davies on Harry versus Mirror legal action and why press reform would have stopped Brexit
11/05/2023
The journalist was speaking at the Sir Harry Evans Summit as the Mirror v Harry case began a few miles away.
The Brexit Party leader claims three million copies will be printed of free newspaper 'The Brexiteer'.
Strong UK national press bias in favour of Leave revealed by Press Gazette’s Brexitometer front-page tracker
16/06/2016
The UK’s most-read national newspaper titles have shown a strong bias favouring Brexit, Press Gazette analysis of the final month of campaigning shows.
The commercial departments of Brexit-supporting newspapers know the damage being caused to the UK economy, and newspaper advertising revenues, by Brexit. Their editorial colleagues continue to support it anyway.
The scale of the disaster it helped to create is becoming clearer, but this cheerleading newspaper remains upbeat.
After years of denying the downsides of Britain’s split from the European Union, the Brexit taboo is starting to lift in the governing Conservative Party and the country’s right-wing press.
The London bureau chief for Germany’s public broadcaster reflects on Britain’s government.
The post-Johnson era is already a nightmare
19/07/2022
Boris Johnson’s Trumpian remarks on the “deep state” will almost certainly have a destructive effect on British democracy.
As the Telegraph’s Brussels correspondent between 1989 and 1994, he invented a self-serving journalistic genre that set a poisonous tone for British EU reporting.
‘A new nadir’ for Britain: How Europe’s press reacted to ‘shameless clown’ Boris Johnson taking control
24/07/2019
‘A proud country dwarfs itself’ – what the continent is saying about the UK’s new prime minister.
The Daily Express is at it again, this time touting a non-existent Brexit benefit for Britain.
‘The kingdom of empty shelves’: European newspapers blame Brexit for UK supply chain crisis
24/09/2021
Continent’s press liken situation to 1970s Winter of Discontent and ‘boycotted Cuba’.
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