The appalling horrorscope of the Barclay Twins’ power to mislead

We have a New Year that promises interest in the Chinese sense. But fear not…for nothing has changed: if necessity be the mother of invention, then money is the father of convention. And the contemporary convention is that greed is good. Except when it isn’t. After the Christmas blowout, anyone for metaphors?

A tragedy, and yet a New Year’s message for anyone prepared to see it: another year, another number, another twelve months spent drowning in denial. Mind you, things have moved on slightly at the DailyTelegraph, where Android Evan-Elpus’s schizoid condition has been formalised. The most recent offering gets this introduction to AEP’s shock-horror OMG take on things:

So then, lots of people likely to suffer along with those nasty smelly Greek lazy hairy oily fatsos if the Red Brigade led by Beelzebub incarnate Alexeivitch Trotpras seizes power. But below the main picture a mere five centimetres later, we learn:

The use of the word ‘rebels’ there is an appalling insult to the Greek electorate; but the abrupt 180 degree U-turn on interpretation is a record even for Ambrose. However, both these signs suggest to me that after AEP left the office, one of the Barclay twins’ quisling bumboys emailed the Odd Couple in the Channel. Either they both have the consistency associated with all card-carrying newsbending fascists neoliberals, or (I’d imagine more likely) the Teletubbies couldn’t agree on the ramifications. At the age of 80, perhaps they’ve finally become doolally. But once again, I am forced to ask here whyTF these two clowns are allowed to turn out this bilge of self-interested and near-deranged news manipulation using a national institution as their vehicle. And the answer is, of course – just as with Newscorpate Austropathicus – they are way beyond any law that counts.

But far be it from me to be holier than they: I feel terrible. I don’t know how it happened, but I forgot to send the Baby Jesus a birthday card. What am I like?

Yesterday at The Slog: https://hat4uk.wordpress.com/2014/12/31/the-belles-of-st-trillions/