The Margaret Thatcher Impersonation Contest

Aug 04, 2022 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

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  • Policy Leaning

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Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"Disraeli, in contrast, was in favor of protectionism because it maintained the established order, which he believed served all those in society -- the monarch and the multitude."
Positive
16% Conservative
"Here we are in 2022, with a host of new problems to address: war in Europe, the ongoing effects of a once-in-a-century pandemic, inflation at a 40-year high, an aging population, Brexit, and a bubbling political crisis in Northern Ireland."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Truss has chosen political infidelity: Once a supporter of the Liberal Democrats and of Britain's membership in the EU, she is now a hard-line conservative who says she was wrong to have ever backed Remain, pursuing Brexit with the zealous certainty of a convert."
Positive
14% Conservative
"Disraeli was a firebrand radical, fiercely opposed to the first ever Conservative prime minister, Robert Peel, who had split the Tory party by supporting free trade over tariffs."
Negative
-4% Liberal
"For Sunak, that means adhering to fiscal conservatism to tackle inflation; for Truss, it means cutting taxes to go for growth."
Negative
-8% Liberal
"It offered a referendum on Britain's membership to the European Union but did not know how to follow through on the result; it negotiated, signed, and ratified a Brexit divorce deal whose consequences it now disavows; and it won its biggest majority in 30 years on a pledge to rebalance the country's economy and rip up the old orthodoxy -- only to now balk at the costs of doing so."
Negative
-10% Liberal
"During this Conservative era, Britain has become poorer, taxes have gone up, and wages have stagnated."
Negative
-16% Liberal
"And yet, during this time, the Tory party has been able to successfully reinvent itself thanks to Brexit, wiing a once-in-a-generation majority to reform the country in the process."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Truss is a believer in liberty, markets, global free trade, and capital."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Brexit, in its most essential sense, is an expression of a nation, a cry against the change happening within the EU undermining the traditions of a people."
Negative
-24% Liberal

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Bias Meter

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Disraeli, in contrast, was in favor of protectionism because it maintained the established order, which he believed served all those in society -- the monarch and the multitude.
57% : Here we are in 2022, with a host of new problems to address: war in Europe, the ongoing effects of a once-in-a-century pandemic, inflation at a 40-year high, an aging population, Brexit, and a bubbling political crisis in Northern Ireland.
57% : Truss has chosen political infidelity: Once a supporter of the Liberal Democrats and of Britain's membership in the EU, she is now a hard-line conservative who says she was wrong to have ever backed Remain, pursuing Brexit with the zealous certainty of a convert.
48% : Disraeli was a firebrand radical, fiercely opposed to the first ever "Conservative" prime minister, Robert Peel, who had split the Tory party by supporting free trade over tariffs.
46% : For Sunak, that means adhering to fiscal conservatism to tackle inflation; for Truss, it means cutting taxes to go for growth.
45% : It offered a referendum on Britain's membership to the European Union but did not know how to follow through on the result; it negotiated, signed, and ratified a Brexit divorce deal whose consequences it now disavows; and it won its biggest majority in 30 years on a pledge to rebalance the country's economy and rip up the old orthodoxy -- only to now balk at the costs of doing so.
42% : During this Conservative era, Britain has become poorer, taxes have gone up, and wages have stagnated.
39% : And yet, during this time, the Tory party has been able to successfully reinvent itself thanks to Brexit, winning a once-in-a-generation majority to reform the country in the process.
39% : Truss is a believer in liberty, markets, global free trade, and capital.
38% : Brexit, in its most essential sense, is an expression of a nation, a cry against the change happening within the EU undermining the traditions of a people.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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