Trial by Media

Not even those paragons of straight talk and free speech who constitute the Farage Falange are altogether immune to tetchiness when treated uncouthly by the Press; presumably because of all the time and effort they have spent resigning themselves to the touch of kid gloves. By contrast with the strutting Caudillo and his executive boardroom, who throw themselves into the public eye almost like a bunch of racist demagogues in a country of sixty million dupes, a Farage Falange county council has taken the Trumpsterite step of ostracising a local newspaper for the crime of reporting that a split had emerged in the cadres. Hence, rather than the old-fashioned practice of papers being sued by the aggrieved protagonists in their more colourful stories, the paper is suing the council for withdrawing the press-release feeding spoon. The council later condescended to recognise journalists funded by the famously Falange-friendly BBC; but legal action may still be forthcoming unless the newspaper can reach some sort of gentlemen's agreement with the political thugs it is meant to be scrutinising.