We read April’s edition of “The Light”, so you don’t have to!
The April edition the self-styled “Truthpaper” tells us we should dislike…
1. Concern about climate change (p1)
2. “The ‘green’ agenda” (p1)
3. Refugees (p2)
4. Trans people (p2)
5. COVID vaccines (p3)
6. Medical examiners (p4)
7. Walkable neighbourhoods / traffic calming measures (p5)
8. The EU (p6)
9. Everything modern, particularly technology, environmental protection, public health measures, and sex education (p7)
10. Voting (p8)
11. Rich people (or anyone else) paying any taxes (p8)
12. Any government of any kind, ever – governments regulating bosses and big business, or legislating to protect children or anyone else – it’s all bad (p8)
Here’s a little more detail:
1. On page one the Light’s lead article (about Charles III), written by its editor, dismisses climate change as merely “fear mongering about the weather…based on nothing more than provable deceptions… [a] manufactured belief”. This is the latest example of The Light’s consistent denial of the reality of climate breakdown, which we have written about previously.
2. The same page 1 article heavily suggests any attempt by governments to protect the environment are linked to what it calls “globalist” ideas, “outright tyranny” and “surveillance”
3. The article that fills page 2 suggests heavily that “male migrants” are not “safe” to be around, a demonstrably false idea beloved of racists throughout history. The author is a notorious hard right former academic who was filmed abusing well-known Remain campaigner Femi Oluwole at a demo, calling him a “f***-ing traitor” and poking him with a flagpole.
4. The same article claims “transgender ideology” is a massive issue and suggests expending energy trying to get your MP to define “woman”.
5. The article that fills page 3 is basically one long quote from a “Psychological Wellbeing Practioner” (i.e. – not a medic) who says he had to go off with stress when the NHS didn’t listen to him about vaccinations.
6. Page 4 is an opinion piece from an NHS manager (i.e. not a medic) who makes various unclear allegations about the reporting of COVID deaths. He has left the NHS to set up a clothing business called “Trillionaire Gent Squad”, which is promoted at the end of his article.
7. Page 5 consists of a report of a meeting where some men were “brimming with passsion” in their opposition to “20 minute neighbourhoods”, a policy goal to have essential shops and services within a 20 minute walking distance and prioritise pedestrians over cars.
8. The article on page 6 claims that being pro-EU is a position driven solely by greed, and which killed democracy.
9. The article on page 7 tells us modernity is bad because, it claims, this is what CS Lewis, author of the Narnia books, thought. Though the whole page-long article contains only one, tiny, direct quote (“man-moulders”) from Lewis’s writing, so it’s hard to tell if this article fairly reflects his views.
10. The article on page 8 says (repeatedly) that any government is “always inherently immoral and illegitimate”, that tax is nothing but “force” and “thuggery” and no-one should be forced to do anything.
By page 9 I couldn’t take any more of it, but you get the gist…
This is all from one issue of The Light – but the paper consistently publishes material denying climate change, attacking climate activists, promoting homophobia and transphobia, and defending hate speech and bigotry – read more in Community Solidarity Stroud District’s previous articles here.
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