The 'Great Noticing' Era

Ever since Labour came to power, the British media has started to notice a whole series of problems they spent the previous 14 years completely ignoring

Over the past year British media organisations have started noticing things that they spent 14 years ignoring, and ignoring things that they spent 14 years noticing.

Never has this been clearer than over the past week, which has been dominated by a series of stories about prisoners being mistakenly released from British prisons.

In reality, these releases are nothing new. In the last year of the Conservative Government alone, 115 prisoners were released in error, including a series of serious offenders.

At no point did this fact ever make the front pages of British newspapers, or lead news bulletins on the BBC.

Yet the second the problem can be blamed on a Labour, rather than a Conservative Government, the combined ranks of the British media suddenly starts to notice it.

This isn’t the only example of the ‘great noticing’ currently taking place in British politics.