The problem is not a single failure. It is that the UK’s information ecosystem has been captured by what can be called a self-styled “community of the good” – and it is leading the country toward oblivion….
Layer on top of that a culture of institutional laziness, risk aversion, and an inability to truly engage in critical thinking – and you get a system where almost nobody at senior levels seriously challenges the worldview being presented to them
Even when scrutiny occurs, it is shallow, and never deep enough to penetrate the protective forcefield around the “community of the good”.
Because this ecosystem is overwhelmingly left-leaning, @UKLabour are the worst offenders – but the scale of the problem also explains why even years of @Conservatives government failed to correct course.
The ship never turns because the compass is broken.
Alaa Abd El Fattah passed through this system because every voice the government reflexively trusts was pointing in the same corrupted direction.
As long as policymakers assume this is a good-faith environment – where enemy actors play by the rules -the UK will continue to be undermined from within.
Mick Hartley 
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