tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post2714887468654715582..comments2024-03-29T11:36:35.692+00:00Comments on Capitalists@Work: Mayday in JapanCityUnslickerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15929544047783163175noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-45501783487828719452017-08-31T22:11:19.618+01:002017-08-31T22:11:19.618+01:00Re-read regret... "flat but agreeable" w...Re-read regret... "flat but agreeable" would probably have been less contradictory.Charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-60901385445391884312017-08-31T22:09:58.782+01:002017-08-31T22:09:58.782+01:00Some real politics involving apparently serious po...Some real politics involving apparently serious politicians has been taking place in Brussels over the last few days. In today's presser, the mood was flat, but convivial. Various UK journos asked a number of provocative questions. The "best" soundbite they got was Barnier's "you'll know when I'm angry". And that's what the evening news has gone with. No detail on what has been discussed, no reporting on the forward-looking statements made by both sides, no ridiculing of Barnier's suggestion that the UK wants to shape the Single Market after leaving it.<br /><br />I'm not sure what's in the more parlous state - politics or journalism.Charlienoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-59248415273909322952017-08-31T15:47:27.288+01:002017-08-31T15:47:27.288+01:00"We have a whole lexicon – rhetoric, presenta..."<i>We have a whole lexicon – rhetoric, presentation, “spin” – for the supposedly ephemeral aspects of politics, as if beneath them lurks the noble stuff to which we can somehow return. But what if it has gone, and there is no way of getting it back?</i>"<br /><br />John Harris in the GraunNick Drewhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13670594203660051701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32841798.post-23063212496560981252017-08-31T12:09:50.777+01:002017-08-31T12:09:50.777+01:00The media, who all know this is a made-up story ab...The media, who all know this is a made-up story about nothing, still treat it as if it isn't. the <br />But even they have been covering it in a weary fashion. Well aware that the answer, "Well what else could she say?" could come from their guest at any moment.<br /><br />I suspect even the leftie media are keen to move this non-story down the running order as soon as anything even remotely of interest occurs.Bill Quango MPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14861116614665461655noreply@blogger.com