Another Angry Voice

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Another Angry Voice
Type of site
Political blog
Created byThomas G. Clark
URL anotherangryvoice.substack.com//
Launched2010;14 years ago (2010)
Current statusActive

Another Angry Voice (AAV) is a British left-wing political blog written by Thomas G. Clark, established in 2010. It has regularly criticised the Conservative government and strongly supported the Labour Party leadership of Jeremy Corbyn. [1] [2] The blog, previously hosted on BlogSpot, moved to Substack in July 2023. [3]

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Launch

Clark started the blog because he "enjoy[ed] demolishing pathetic arguments" and has been a strong critic of right-wing media. [4]

2017 general election

The blog became increasingly popular during 2017, when it supported the Labour Party. [5] The blog's popularity has been associated with the rise of other independent left-wing blogs launched in response to the lack of left-wing voices in mainstream news. [2] Posts in 2017 attracted over 1.5 million views. [6] [7] A BBC report said that its popularity, along with that of similar blogs, could no longer be ignored. [8] The growth of left-wing blogs has been cited as an explanation for why the Conservative Party's winning margin in the 2017 election was lower than many predicted. [5]

An article in the blog, detailing policies proposed by Corbyn that Clark believed most people would agree with, went viral and was one of the most-reposted pieces in the run up to the 2017 election. It was shared over 100,000 times on social media and it, along with two other stories, were more popular than any contemporary news reports in The Guardian and BBC News for that week. [9] [1] Clark subsequently said his most popular posts at this time were those criticising the BBC. [10] Another popular story was a suggestion to field "Unity" expert candidates in the 2017 election, such as an NHS doctor against health secretary Jeremy Hunt. [11] At one point during the election campaign, Clark was writing around 20 hours a day. He has said that several people have written to him about beginning to support Labour after reading the blog. [12]

Criticism

In a 2018 article in The Economist, the blog was criticised for forming an echo chamber for like-minded people. [13]

A Labour councillor was criticised for quoting an Another Angry Voice post entitled ‘Was the Manchester Arena atrocity a ‘false flag’ attack?’ which rejected suggestions that the state played a role in its commission, while remarking that its timing was beneficial to the Conservative government. [14]

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  3. ↑ Clark, Thomas G. (2023-07-13). "Check out Another Angry Voice on Substack". Check out Another Angry Voice on Substack. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
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  5. 1 2 "Daily Mail and Sun turn on Theresa May for election 'gamble'". The Guardian. 9 June 2017. Retrieved 19 January 2018.
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