Why DOES America's smuggest newspaper have such a pathological loathing for Britain? We dine out on boiled mutton, the economy is falling apart... and we're so racist we drove out Meghan Markle. TOM LEONARD examines another New York Times howitzerTOM LEONARD: The New York Times has an obsession with portraying modern Brexit Britain as a country riven by prejudice, culturally backward and with a level of racism which forced Meghan Markle to leave the country. If Britain could sue the NYT for defamation, it would have a field day. Reporters and photographers search out the most negative, depressing stories and pictures of life in the UK that they can.
The hot-headed reporter in the latest edition of Serial, the hit U.S. ‘true crime’ podcast run by The New York Times, can hardly contain his fury about the rampant racism and Islamophobia in BritainWhen the Duke and Duchess of Sussex alleged racism within the Royal Family, the Times banged the drum with not one but two long articles explaining to readers in the U.S. — home of segregation and the Ku Klux Klan — that many other black Britons knew exactly how Meghan Markle feltBoris Johnson is the principal target. Despite their glaring differences, he is lazily lumped together by the newspaper with its most loathed hate figure, Donald Trump. For the NYT, the Brexit vote and Trump’s election as President were synonymousEven when Sajid Javid was appointed Home Secretary in 2018 — the first British Asian to hold one of the great offices of state — the NYT accentuated the negative with a story headlined ‘A New Face Won’t Change the British Government’s Racist Heart’https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10536773/TOM-LEONARD-DOES-Americas-smuggest-newspaper-pathological-loathing-Britain.html