A politico-media leadership faction whose first instinct when under the pressure of system crisis is to attack the media https://twitter.com/montie/status/1254493692137791488

You still have solid polling leads. You have some room for manoeuvre with a public willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.

You can ignore hostile media or even better take the "tough crisis, we made mistakes, if you spot one we'll listen and work with you to solve it" line

If they read the Sunday Times then the government still has trouble on its hands. https://twitter.com/montie/status/1254508374202486786?s=20

Instead of seeing politics as a form of permanent warfare with cultural rivals play the game of "standing above partisanship", "everyone made mistakes, we're working hard to fix this for you" and "in it all together" in ways that neutralise criticism.

It's not rocket science