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This week: some English counties that never happened, some maps of where the animals live, and if we’re honest with ourselves the British media isn’t great, really, is it?

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Jonn Elledge
May 11, 2022
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An uncomfortably large number of years ago now, in one of my earliest pieces for the New Statesman, I argued that, if JK Rowling really wanted to fight the social injustice being pursued by the then coalition government, she should buy her own newspaper. I wouldn’t write that now for reasons you can definitely guess at, and, now I come to think of it, i…

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