法拉奇曾是其拥护者，现在则是巴德诺克——其目标是不惜一切代价让首相失败。尽管所谓“不列颠盾牌”旨在保护英国免受导弹和无人机袭击的优劣尚存争议，但保守党上周提出的建议确实达到了一项目标：这一盾牌的构想被用来加冕一位政治领袖。
Farage was its champion, now it’s Badenoch – and the aim is the PM’s defeat at all costs While the merits of a so-called Britannia shield to protect Britain from missiles and drones are debatable, the Conservatives’ proposal did achieve one thing last week: the very idea of the shield was used to anoint a political leader.
在一个重大动向中，在新闻事件的喧嚣中鲜少被注意到，凯米·巴德诺克花费100亿英镑建造反导系统的未经成本核算、异想天开的计划，受到了右翼媒体的热烈吹捧。这不仅关乎计划本身受到赞扬，甚至连那些必然知道这些计划荒谬的媒体机构也在这样做。更具重大意义的是，它表明了这些媒体机构在其针对工党政府和安迪·伯恩汉姆的攻势中所选择的拥护者。
In a significant development, little observed amid the hullaballoo of news events, Kemi Badenoch’s uncosted, pie-in-the-sky plans to build a £10bn anti-missile system were enthusiastically heralded by the rightwing press. It was not just a matter of the plans themselves being lauded, even by outlets that must know them to be ridiculous. More significant is what it said about the champion chosen by these media organisations in their offensive against the Labour government and Andy Burnham.
简·马丁森是一名学者兼《卫报》专栏作家。她是《卫报》传媒集团所有者斯科特信托基金会的董事会成员，本文以其个人身份撰写。
Jane Martinson is an academic and Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, and writes in a personal capacity