Many thanks for the article and all the comments.
The Graun captions this “A woman and her children run for cover from Assad air strikes on Damascus” – but is that what it is? The days when we could take their word for anything like that are long gone.
The Graun’s recent (anonymously authored) “Observer view on…” reads like sullen teenage grafitti. Rddled with ignorance and misinformation, it would more fittingly be scribbled in the back of an exercise book, accompanied by an unflattering cartoon of a maths teacher. The introduction:
The Kerry-Lavrov pact is as shot full of holes as an Aleppo block of flats
sets the tone for the rest. Crude brutalism, psychopathic indifference to truth and human suffering. Nothing new here. Except for this gem, which, we believe, must qualify for the Orwell Revisionism Award.
The position of the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front, also excluded, is more nuanced. If left alone, they could conceivably join Assad’s more…
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