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Welcome to the age of media feeding frenzies

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

9 December 2017

9:00 AM

Tony Blair once remarked, during one of the periodic feeding frenzies that engulf British politics, that public life was becoming a game of ‘gotcha’. These days feeding frenzies, like Atlantic hurricanes, seem to strike with increasing frequency. No week passes without someone, somewhere calling for this or that minister to quit.

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