Baiting Hero Rashford Has Become A Spectator Sport

Nice try, Jeff, just 60 years too late CAPITALISM has been hailed as the reason Jeff Bezos was able to go into space. Somebody better organise a séance and inform Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin – who achieved this feat 60 years ago.

- Darren McGarvey

What comes to mind when you think of the word “spectator”?

The dictionary definition is “a person who watches at a game, a show or other event”.

A spectator is a fly on the wall. An onlooker. And while they may feel heavily invested in the outcome of whatever has captured their fleeting attention, spectators rarely put their own necks on the line.

Hold that description of the spectator in mind as we turn to the conservative political magazine of the same name.

England star and anti-poverty campaigner Marcus Rashford this week revealed on social media that The Spectator would imminently publish a hit piece, in which it would attempt to cast doubt over his charitable work.

The crux of the aspersion being that Rashford’s tireless activism (which has resulted in government U-turns over free-school meals) is somehow tainted by the fact that he is a highly paid sports personality and businessman.