{"id":15084,"date":"2025-01-21T10:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-21T10:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/?p=15084"},"modified":"2025-01-21T11:58:06","modified_gmt":"2025-01-21T11:58:06","slug":"morning-star-nits-nail-on-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/?p=15084","title":{"rendered":"Morning Star hits nail on head"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/morningstaronline.co.uk\/\">Morning Star<\/a> is one of Britain&#8217;s few left-wing news publications.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>As such and unlike other media outlets, it can be guaranteed not to be overly sycophantic where the person of the disgraced 47th and 45th president of the United States of America, insurrectionist, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, business fraudster, congenital liar and golf cheat, one Donald John Trump is concerned.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>Today&#8217;s front page needs no further comment.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15094\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15094\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/idiot.jpg\" alt=\"Headline reads Return of the village idiot\" width=\"600\" height=\"754\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15094\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/idiot.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/idiot-239x300.jpg 239w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Make America Grate Again<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n<br \/>\r\n\r\n<p>Needless to say, the Morning Star&#8217;s front page did not make it into the shots of national newspaper front pages provided each day by Sky News and what passes for BBC News. Too close to the truth perhaps.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<p>The closest any of the major papers came to criticism was the Daily Star; and it didn&#8217;t hold back.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<figure id=\"attachment_15100\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15100\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/xislblogs.xtreamlab.net\/slwoods\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/DST_20250121_null_null_01_1.jpg\" alt=\"Headline Orange Manbaby sworn in as 47th president of the United States...   ...so help us God\" width=\"600\" height=\"748\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15100\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/DST_20250121_null_null_01_1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/23\/2025\/01\/DST_20250121_null_null_01_1-241x300.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15100\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Two bibles for double insincerity&#8230;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Morning Star is one of Britain&#8217;s few left-wing news publications. As such and unlike other media outlets, it can be guaranteed not to be overly sycophantic where the person of the disgraced 47th and 45th president of the United States of America, insurrectionist, convicted felon, adjudicated sexual predator, business fraudster, congenital liar and golf [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,15],"tags":[36,33,20],"class_list":["post-15084","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","tag-comment","tag-media-2","tag-politics-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084","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=15084"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15102,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15084\/revisions\/15102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slwoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}