As the newspaper is put for sale, a widely-publicised report claiming ‘only’ 1,700 lives were saved by lockdown – which was splashed on its front page – is not what it seems

Source: ‘The Telegraph’s Last Hurrah? Laundering a Hard-Right Think Tank’s COVID Lockdown Claims’ – Byline Times

For years now, it has not been a newspaper but instead a fanzine for fantasists and fanatics, a conduit for Government lines, and spittle-flecked opinion pieces penned by a group of scenery-chewers straight from Central Casting.

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Now, the Telegraph records the ravings of the right’s most rabid fringes and encourages them, with columnists like Allison Pearson always keen to amplify and even start conspiracy theories.