News Round-Up
26 April 2025
by Toby Young
Get ready for four years of foam-flecked anti-Trump sneering and fury from the British media, predicts David Craig. The more successful Trump is at growing the U.S. economy, the more unhinged it will be.
Even Sally Rooney's usual army of fans are tiring of her hyper-right-on schtick, if the review of her latest novel in the Times is anything to go by, says Steven Tucker. Time to rediscover Ireland's real literature.
The Times has come out against online censorship in a leading article today, slamming 'press ratings agencies' like Global Disinformation Index as "self-appointed arbiters of truth" that undermine objective reporting.
The Naked Emperor isn't impressed by Harriet Walker's piece in the Times on 'lockdown nostalgia'. For the laptop classes, lockdown may have been a bit of a lark. For most ordinary people, it was misery.
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