{"id":26670,"date":"2026-10-13T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/10\/13\/one-thing-must-now-be-clear-to-andy-burnham-the-rightwing-press-is-on-a-war-footing-and-hes-the-enemy-jane-martinson\/"},"modified":"2026-10-13T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-13T07:00:18","slug":"one-thing-must-now-be-clear-to-andy-burnham-the-rightwing-press-is-on-a-war-footing-and-hes-the-enemy-jane-martinson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/2026\/10\/13\/one-thing-must-now-be-clear-to-andy-burnham-the-rightwing-press-is-on-a-war-footing-and-hes-the-enemy-jane-martinson\/","title":{"rendered":"One thing must now be clear to Andy Burnham. The rightwing press is on a war footing \u2013 and he\u2019s the enemy | Jane Martinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Farage was its champion, now it\u2019s Badenoch \u2013 and the aim is the PM\u2019s defeat at all costsWhile the merits of a so-called Britannia shield to protect Britain from missiles and drones are debatable, the Conservatives\u2019 proposal did achieve one thing last week: the very idea of the shield was used to anoint a political leader.In a significant development, little observed amid the hullaballoo of news events, Kemi Badenoch\u2019s uncosted, pie-in-the-sky plans to build a \u00a310bn anti-missile system were enthusiastically heralded by the rightwing press. It was not just a matter of the plans themselves being lauded, even by outlets that must know them to be ridiculous. More significant is what it said about the champion chosen by these media organisations in their offensive against the Labour government and Andy Burnham.Jane Martinson is an academic and Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, and writes in a personal capacity Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Farage was its champion, now it\u2019s Badenoch \u2013 and the aim is the PM\u2019s defeat at all costsWhile the merits of a so-called Britannia shield to protect Britain from missiles and drones are debatable, the\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26671,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.tcjhomeaccents.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}