The BBC especially should be holding ministers to account. But, like most of the press, it has been asleep for the past year
How does Boris Johnson get away with it? How does he lie and cheat and break the rules with apparent impunity? Plenty of theories are aired in the media: his alleged charisma, the weakness of the opposition, the success of the vaccine programme. But the most likely explanation isn’t Johnson’s character or circumstances. It’s the one staring back from the mirror. For most of his career, he has been protected by the news organisations that should have held him to account.
Surely the media are doing a great job. First the Cameron story and now Boris Johnson’s dirty business have been plastered all over the front pages. The recent scandals show that journalism in the UK is the lively scourge of dishonesty and corruption. Really?
