cesspit

"Once the bipartisanship was gone and there was significant formal opposition to it ... that then bought it down into the political cesspit."

Mr. Davis then turned around and threw a rope at the weapons specialist who was stuck in the cesspit.

He also attacked the government over Covid rule-breaking in Downing Street, saying No 10 had become "a cesspit, full of arrogant, entitled narcissists".

"Without moderation, platforms become a cesspit of misogyny, racial hatred and antisemitism, without any conceivable benefit for society. Holocaust denial is not free speech."

The BBC is supposed to be one bulwark against the slide into a US-style new media cesspit - it is so self destructive for them to do this.