{"id":29840,"date":"2015-07-24T06:24:14","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29840"},"modified":"2015-07-24T06:24:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T05:24:14","slug":"will-it-be-reds-under-beds-soon-at-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/24\/will-it-be-reds-under-beds-soon-at-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Will it be &#8216;reds under beds&#8217; soon at the Guardian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian's lack of objectivity on the fact that a left of centre candidate has stood for leadership of the Labour party (I use the term left of centre wisely) continues.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Perkins <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/profile\/anneperkins\" target=\"_blank\">has had her third Comment is Free<\/a> article on Jeremy Corbyn published in fewer days.<\/p>\n<p>And now the Guardian<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2015\/jul\/23\/jeremy-corbyn-win-could-cause-sdp-style-labour-split-says-donor\" target=\"_blank\"> illustrates its headline story<\/a> that he would split the party if elected because some business sponsors would walk away with this image (which I reproduce because it is my story):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/24\/will-it-be-reds-under-beds-soon-at-the-guardian\/screen-shot-2015-07-24-at-06-12-19\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-29841\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-29841 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19-438x300.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-07-24 at 06.12.19\" width=\"438\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19-438x300.png 438w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19-550x376.png 550w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19-300x205.png 300w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19-193x132.png 193w, https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Screen-Shot-2015-07-24-at-06.12.19.png 1330w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am ruling out the possibility that this shot was produced with a red filter, or that the tome was photoshopped on. I guess the photographer simply got lucky with the red curtains casting the hue and used it to good effect. But the resulting message is clear: it really won't be long before the Guardian is writing about reds under the bed at this rate.<\/p>\n<p>A change of editor is definitely not becoming the paper at present. I continue to stress that who Labour chooses is not my business and I will not be voting although I could, of course, register to do so. But this paranoia is my business. They really do need to get a grip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian&#8217;s lack of objectivity on the fact that a left of centre candidate has stood for leadership of the Labour party (I use the<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/24\/will-it-be-reds-under-beds-soon-at-the-guardian\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}