Daily Telegraph

This is about the British broadsheet, not the Murdoch tabloid of the same name.

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The Daily Telegraph is a British daily broadsheet newspaper who, along with its sister edition Sunday Telegraph, consistently supports the Conservative Party, takes a conservative (duh) position, and, as a result, has earned the nickname "Torygraph". Like most newspapers, the Telegraph's circulation has fallen steadily over the past decade,^[1] and it currently ranks fifth among British newspapers by circulation, first among broadsheets.

The Telegraph is strongly anti-Murdoch, and has the wonderful distinction of having published an article which heavily links to RationalWiki.^[2]

Ownership[edit]

Until David's death in January 2021, the paper was owned by identical twin brothers David and Frederick Barclay.^[3] They had a combined estimated net worth of £1.8bn. Although British nationals born in London, they attracted some criticism for being tax exiles living on the Channel Island of Brecqhou or Monaco. The Barclays also own the weekly current affairs magazine The Spectator.

Things started to get interesting in June 2023, when the Telegraph’s parent company the Telegraph Media Group, consisting of The Spectator, the Sunday Telegraph and Daily Telegraph went into financial troubles over the company’s large debts, and the newspaper was seized by the company’s banker Lloyds Banking Group. ^[4] Since then the Barclay family has been negotiating a buyback from the bank with support from a joint investment fund called Redbird IMI. This has raised eyebrows in the media world as IMI is financed by the sovereign wealth fund of Dubai.

Investigative journalism[edit]

The Telegraph is well known for leaks and whistle-blowing, as well as "sting" operations to reveal wrongdoing. It was the main outlet for the leaked details of British MPs' expenses, which caused great embarrassment for many parliamentarians and even led to a few of them going to prison. The paper also caused huge controversy by sending journalists to flirt with members of Parliament at their constituency meetings, eventually ridiculing and embarrassing multiple Liberal Democrat MPs, most notably Vince Cable.

Columnawful[edit]

Because more black people = the apocalypse, right?.

While the main reporters of the Telegraph show a candid, but restrained, support for the Conservative Party, their columnists certainly rival their counterparts at the Daily Mail for wingnuttery, with a raving disdain for the European Union and pseudoskepticism about climate change (one of their bloggers is notable denier James Delingpole). The late Christopher Booker, when he was not too busy ranting about the Human Rights Act, split his time equally between denouncing climate change as a scam and denouncing the EU as, well, whatever accusations he fancied pulling out of his arse.^[5] Telegraph also gave pseudoskeptic Bjørn Lomborg a column to promote climate change denialism, such as this doozy, "No one ever says it, but in many ways global warming will be a good thing" in 2016.^[6] Jordan Peterson even has his column of bullshit, and he even tag-teamed with Lomborg to downplay climate change.^[7][8]

Meanwhile, the paper's editorials are simply propaganda. Half of the time, it's aimed at the general public, trying to convince them that the Tories are the only safe option to govern Britain. The other half seems to be aimed at the party elite and hard-line supporters, being very much against "Tory modernisers" and encouraging the party to stick to Mrs. Thatcher's legacy.^[9][10] Their former chief political commentator Peter Oborne, though often quite reasonable in his predictions of what the coalition government would face, was part of the "Christianity is oppressed!" brigade, often writing columns about "Islamisation" and the role of Christianity in the state. However, he has since resigned from his post, accusing the paper of a "form of fraud on its readers"^[11] for its coverage of the bank HSBC in relation to a Swiss tax-dodging scandal that was widely covered by other news media. He alleged that editorial decisions about news content had been heavily influenced by the advertising arm of the newspaper because of commercial interests.^[12] Meanwhile, online Nile "Vile" Gardiner has become somewhat of a Tea Party favourite, having written anti-Obama^[13] and pro-batshit^[14] articles consistently since mid-'09.

The comments sections are, of course, gibberish and should not be read under any circumstances.

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