{"id":30062,"date":"2025-01-09T15:34:57","date_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:34:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/stop-saying-i-crashed-the-economy-says-liz-truss-is-it-possible-to-gaslight-an-entire-country-hugh-muir\/"},"modified":"2025-01-09T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T15:34:57","slug":"stop-saying-i-crashed-the-economy-says-liz-truss-is-it-possible-to-gaslight-an-entire-country-hugh-muir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/stop-saying-i-crashed-the-economy-says-liz-truss-is-it-possible-to-gaslight-an-entire-country-hugh-muir\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Stop saying I crashed the economy,&#8217; says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country? | Hugh Muir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former PM has sent a cease and desist letter to the current one. Will everyone who thinks she was useless get one next?<\/p>\n<p>The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of Liz Truss.<\/p>\n<p>She is the victim of a very special kind of injustice: people think she was a terrible prime minister, whose doings were disastrous for the economy, resulting in her defenestration by her own party \u2013 and what\u2019s worse, people keep saying so.<\/p>\n<p>Hugh Muir is the Guardian\u2019s executive editor, Opinion<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2025\/jan\/09\/liz-truss-keir-starmer-cease-and-desist-letter-crashed-economy\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former PM has sent a cease and desist letter to the current one. Will everyone who thinks she was useless get one next? The problem with worrying about megalomaniacs on the web and wildfires in Los Angeles is that we have been distracted from the very real plight of Liz Truss. She is the &#8230; <a title=\"&#8216;Stop saying I crashed the economy,&#8217; says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country? | Hugh Muir\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/09\/stop-saying-i-crashed-the-economy-says-liz-truss-is-it-possible-to-gaslight-an-entire-country-hugh-muir\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about &#8216;Stop saying I crashed the economy,&#8217; says Liz Truss. Is it possible to gaslight an entire country? | Hugh Muir\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}