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Britain has scarcely needed independent, reader-funded journalism more than it does today. The press barons continue to amass power and manipulate public debate, while social media forums have had their democratic powers blunted by billionaire enclosure and ensh*ttification.
Someone has to take Stephen Yaxley-Lennon (Tommy Robinson) and his white supremacist movement to task. Someone has to interrogate the shocking and under-scrutinised conduct of Nigel Farage and Reform UK. Someone in the press has to remain an impartial arbiter in a world of partisan news and softball interviews.
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