As Israel murders children, The Guardian revels in the champagne celebrations of their enablers

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When the bombing of a school is utterly ignored in favour of glorifying the changing of the guard at the Palace of Westminster, a truly sick set of values is revealed

Critics of the UK press pack primarily say four things about it.

1. It peddles a toxic mix of right wing propaganda that seeks to scapegoat immigrants, the EU and poor people for the asset stripping imposed by a globalised neoliberalism.
2. It is captured almost entirely by billionaires and military intelligence agencies and thus ‘journalism’ in the UK amounts to little more than a stenography service for the rich and powerful. In the newsrooms of contemporary churnalism all they really do all day is mash up content fed to them by wire agencies and PR operations.
3. To reap the rewards of being a journalist inside this system one must learn anticipatory compliance and say only what falls within the electric fence of permitted facts and opinions. Those outside this system are feared and loathed for they expose the hollowness upon which their self-image and careers depend.
4. You have to remain utterly closed minded to not notice the sins of the western empire while working night and day to point out the sins of their geopolitical rivals. This self-induced hypnotism makes the UK media utterly impervious to criticism and possessed of the most extraordinary group think.

All of the diamond encrusted failings of the UK media have been on display in The Guardian over the last 48 hours.

I could not find any report about that in The Guardian: they were too busy gloating about the coronation of the Israeli lobbyists’ friend, Keir Starmer.

That The Guardian didn’t deem bombing a school as newsworthy is no surprise. The captured western media has given up spinning Israeli atrocities: now they bury them out of sight or don’t report them at all.

By contrast here is but a selection of the deluge of simpering sycophancy that they have served up about Starmer’s Labour over the last 36 hours.

• Stunned silence, hugs and a very big kiss: at home with the Starmers on election night
• Big brains and glittering careers: five fresh Labour MPs to watch
• Starmer installs non-political ministers in ‘government of all the talents’
• Starmer tells his cabinet: now it’s time to deliver on our promises
• ‘Honeymoon will be very, very short’: rightwing media is set to turn on Starmer
• Keir Starmer hits out at prison system ‘mess’ caused by Tories
• Keir Starmer chairs first cabinet meeting as prime minister
• Keir Starmer vows to focus on ‘delivery and service’
• ‘You must be exhausted’: moment King Charles meets Keir Starmer at Buckingham Palace
• Keir Starmer stunned sceptics and rebuilt Labour. Now he must do the same for Britain
• Call me Keir: PM happy to be informal as he tackles first press questions
• Keir Starmer ‘restless for change’ as he prepares to tour UK
• Keir Starmer: Britain’s new leader who takes politics seriously
• ‘Our work is urgent, we begin it today’: Keir Starmer makes first speech as prime minister
• After ‘kissing hands’, king and Keir Starmer hope to continue warm rapport
• ‘It was surreal’: Labour’s dizzying transition to power, from polls to the palace
• Bellringers and running the bar dry: inside Labour’s night of elation
• Sir Keir now towers over the British parliament like no politician since Tony Blair
• How Labour did it: inside the campaign that led to ‘Starmergeddon’
• Keir Starmer: tense election trail Labour leader replaced by affable prime minister
• How will Labour change Britain – and what next for the shattered Conservatives?
• ‘We’re not all Labour but everyone was jubilant’: UK voters on the election result
• Keir Starmer hails ‘sunlight of hope’ as Britain wakes up to Labour landslide

I promise you faithfully: this is just a selection.

12 of the 15 cabinet ministers appointed by Starmer have accepted money from the Israeli lobby. Worth a mention from The Guardian? Nah.

If Keir Starmer is so ‘restless for change’, has he mentioned stopping the UK supply of weapons to Israel? Nah. Has The Guardian commented on this? Also nah.

The Guardian glowingly reports that Starmer is eager to ‘take action’ to reform UK prisons. Is Starmer pressuring Israel to release the 9,500+ Palestinian hostages in Israeli prisons? Nah. Will he speak out about Israeli torture camps like Sde Teiman? Nah. Does The Guardian comment on this grotesque moral inconsistency. Nah.

As they change the guard at the Palace of Westminster, the losers bank the money while the winners chink champagne glasses and plot against the public once more. The Guardian just wants to party with the winners: overjoyed that their insider access to power / celebrity has been restored and that all threats to the big club have been squashed.

Journalists at The Guardian are just courtiers. They will report on world events if they happen to impact the game of thrones at Westminster, but retain neither capacity to investigate or moral interest in them.

The Guardian may publish celebrity scandal involving politicians and will work 24/7 to wag moral fingers at the enemies of the West, but has zero interest in holding that same empire to account: actively spinning and hiding stories that threaten the establishment of which they are an integral part.

All I can say to the simpering courtesans at The Guardian is this: enjoy your champagne while you can. Look to the U.S., France and Germany and note how the very same right-wing swamps that you now wallow around in like happy hippos tend to grow fascist roses.

When the time comes for the rise of the far-right in the UK, it may be that the fascists will still have a need for people like you – but maybe not. If the day dawns that they start tossing hacks like you into wagons, then forgive me if I don’t weep many tears: for your corrupt non-journalism will have been instrumental in your downfall … and ours.