{"id":13027,"date":"2023-08-23T09:22:59","date_gmt":"2023-08-23T09:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=13027"},"modified":"2023-08-24T08:42:59","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T08:42:59","slug":"daily-brexit-crime-against-syntax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=13027","title":{"rendered":"Daily Brexit &#8211; crime against syntax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a title in the Reach plc newspaper stable, the Daily Brexit (<em>which some still call the Express. Ed.<\/em>) has long inhabited an alternative reality, a world where the economic disaster otherwise known as Brexit is a roaring success (e.g. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thelondoneconomic.com\/news\/badenoch-slams-brexit-bores-as-the-tells-the-express-global-britain-is-thriving-355199\/\">&#8216;Global Britain is thriving&#8217;<\/a>).<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>In recent times the title has gained a reputation more of right-wing posturing than for the factual reporting of news and current affairs<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>A new charge must now be added to the title&#8217;s many crimes against reality and journalism &#8211; a crime against English, as seen in the headline below posted today on the paper&#8217;s website in its continuing campaign of hate against Harry Mountbatten-Windsor and his wife.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/08\/493e0832b965b542.jpg\" alt=\"Headline - Harry's six word response as to why him and Meghan won't give up titles\" width=\"548\" height=\"329\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/08\/493e0832b965b542.jpg 548w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2023\/08\/493e0832b965b542-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be a boon to journalism if those who write for the fourth estate &#8211; even on trivial, gossipy matters &#8211; had a basic level of competence in the language in which they are writing?<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Your comments would be welcome below.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p><strong>PS:<\/strong> for any passing illiterate Reach plc hacks in search of enlightenment, the grammatically correct version of the headline would read: &#8220;<em>Harry&#8217;s six word response as to why  <span style=\"text-decoration:underline\"><strong>he<\/strong><\/span> and Meghan won&#8217;t give up titles<\/em>&#8220;.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a title in the Reach plc newspaper stable, the Daily Brexit (which some still call the Express. Ed.) has long inhabited an alternative reality, a world where the economic disaster otherwise known as Brexit is a roaring success (e.g. &#8216;Global Britain is thriving&#8217;). In recent times the title has gained a reputation more of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,32,17,15],"tags":[36,16,10,22,33,20],"class_list":["post-13027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-translation-and-language-related-matters","category-media","category-oddities","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-english-usage","tag-facepalm","tag-language","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13027"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13049,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13027\/revisions\/13049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}