Left-wing media’s double standards on show at DNC

To the Windy City, where the Democratic National Convention is in full swing. In the early hours of this morning, outgoing President Joe Biden bid an emotional farewell to conference delegates to pave the way for Kamala Harris’s 2024 campaign, and former US leader Barack Obama is due to speak today. But besides the big names of the moment, Mr S spotted something rather interesting about just how the DNC has been received in comparison to its Republican counterpart by some of the noisiest voices in UK media…

When a selection of British politicians decided to make the transatlantic voyage to Milwaukee for the Republican National Convention last month, not everyone was supportive of the international trip. UK journalists pestered Liz Truss about why she was there, quizzing the unimpressed former prime minister about whether or not she’d received a personal invite from Trump. Ex-Beeb star and News Agents host Emily Maitlis slammed the RNC room as being full of ‘cranks and weirdos’, adding that the conversations being had there were ‘utterly dystopian’.