Only stupid people take everything published in British, or for that matter any country's newspapers, as true. I remember, in the run up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq, MI6 had Czech Intelligence place a fabricated article about Iraqi WMD in their newspapers, so that it could be picked up by British newspapers and republished, so as to add materially to the fiction. And that is just one example of how we are daily fed fiction from a rich tapestry of lies.