EDITORIAL

by Hardeep Matharu

Signs of the Time

I became a journalist because I am curious about the forces that shape us.

The artist Paul Klee once said that art does not represent what we see, but makes us see. And I quickly learned the same is true of journalism: far from being a neutral arbiter of information, it has the same power to craft the ideas we think with, not just the ideas we think about.

I see this being affirmed, once again, as the media and adjacent political class create the conditions for a potentially stark future for the UK – even with an election still four years away.

It is not simply that it is easy to forget that a Labour Government was elected just last July with a considerable majority. Or the endless headlines on Nigel Farage’s Reform UK – much of the coverage framed around the prospect of a man whose party has five MPs becoming the next Prime Minister.