Time to lie down for a little rest?

Ever since Brexit, papers such as The Times, Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Sun have complained bitterly that the liberal media in the States, and in particular The New York Times (TNYT), have represented the UK in a highly negative and distorted manner. In short, to quote Charles Moore in The Daily Telegraph, as “a hellhole of xenophobia and racism”. However, since August, and in particular the Queen’s death, complaint has tuned to rage and distemper. For example, in an article in The Daily Mail headed “Why do the useful idiots at The New York Times keep putting the boot into Brexit Britain when it’s America that’s a crime-ravaged basket case being torn apart by wokery?”, Andrew Neil declares that “when it comes to Britain, you can’t trust a word it says”. In The Daily Telegraph, Madeline Grant, in an article headed “The American Left has a vendetta against Britain”, argues that the paper’s UK coverage “has moved beyond parody ... Everything, however mundane, is a symbol of national decline. Everyone is nostalgic for the empire, or racist”. Oliver Kamm in the same day’s Times accuses it of conducting a “weird vendetta” and laments: “What a meretricious spectacle this once-esteemed title has become.” Two days later in The Daily Telegraph, Sam Ashworth-Hayes observes that its coverage is “marked above all other things by a seething hatred of Britain”, and in the same title, Douglas Murray opines that the newspaper which he calls “a poisonous rag” has “developed a strange and intense loathing of Britain”. A number of papers quote a remark by Lord Tebbit to the effect that “The New York Times is now well-known for being a very anti-British newspaper.