Toby Young was demolished on Newsnight when it was pointed out that he had predicted that there would never be a second spike. James Delingpole appears to be having a nervous breakdown because, as can sometimes happen, he has allowed his character act to take over his real life personality. And so on.
Recent and ongoing events have shown the urgent need to press the Refresh button on the commentariat. The near-total public compliance with the first lockdown confirmed all polling that it was massively popular. But their occupancy of certain platforms enabled certain people who had always worked from home to whine, and whine, and whine about not being able to go to the pub.
Eventually a Prime Minister whom they had installed, although he could have pointed out that he had since won a General Election by a landslide, relented in the hope that they would one day employ him again, although as a former Prime Minister, Foreign Secretary, and Mayor of London, he would hardly have been short of offers.
And here we are, into a third lockdown and back to more than a thousand deaths per day. The damage that these people have done has been incalculable. But a bit of blogging and tweeting never got anyone onto those airwaves which made a difference. We need new old media. Watch this space.
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