{"id":890,"date":"2004-04-23T12:34:43","date_gmt":"2004-04-23T16:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=890"},"modified":"2004-04-23T12:34:43","modified_gmt":"2004-04-23T16:34:43","slug":"the-british-press-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=890","title":{"rendered":"The British Press (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record &#8230; I mean, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.independent.co.uk\/uk\/media\/story.jsp?story=514321\" title=\"this version has all the words\">Richard Desmond<\/a> story is so wonderful that Felix rang me up to say he wet himself with laughter reading<a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/Media\/site\/story\/0,14173,1201516,00.html\" title=\"The Guardian one that made Felix laugh\"> it in the<\/a> <em>Guardian<\/em> on the tube, so I assume any English readers of the blog will know about it already. But it fits quite nicely into the argument of today&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/wormseyeview\" title=\"later readers may have to truffle through the archives\">Worm&#8217;s Eye<\/a>, which is that the bitter, foaming tone of British anti-Europeanism is comparable only to the Librul hate of the American Right. In some cases, of course, they are the same people spreading this poison. Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, when he worked on the <em>Sunday Telegraph<\/em>, was one of the more lunatic Clinton haters; now he works for the <em>Telegraph<\/em> in Brussels.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just for the record &#8230; I mean, the Richard Desmond story is so wonderful that Felix rang me up to say he wet himself with laughter reading it in the Guardian on the tube, so I assume any English readers &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=890\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/?p=890\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewormbook.com\/hlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}