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The Observer view on Britain becoming mean and narrow-minded Newspaper article analysis The newspaper article with the headline “The Observer view on Britain becoming mean and narrow-minded”, which is written by the editors of the Observer and published on 23 October 2016. In this article, the editors are trying to make the readers understand that they probably need another government and other politics to reduce racism and bigotry for a successful Brexit by using a strong structure, line of argumentation and many figures. The article consists of three parts. At the beginning of the article, The authors use here positive adjectives“open, tolerant, confident” (ll.2-3) to describe Britain before the referendum, he also mentions how Britain used to be and how the people luxuriated British (cf.ll.4-8). The british celebrities are, according to writer Jonathan Freedland, “a byword for a new approach to Britishness”(l.13) and will soon be a symbol for a new kind of patriotism that does not lamet a vanished Britain but loves the country that has changed (cf.ll.16-19). In the following, the authors use a juxtaposition to talk about Britain nowadays (cf.ll.23-32) and contrast it to how british people used to be. With this strong comparison, an argument is shown: Britain has changed. In the main part to be exact the second paragraph, the author mentions that the referendum result causes a brutish politics which discourse fanned by the lie factories of Fleet Street (cf.42-44). The policy starts aiming to the foreigners for example, “the home secretary announce plans to force companies to disclose how many foreign workers they employ” (ll.49-52), the prime minister has strengthened the message that the foreign students are only encumbrance for Britain (cf.ll.59-61). And those who voted Remain and against the government's position on Brexit are now deemed unpatriotic and undemocratic (cf.ll.61-65). The authors use a strong structure, giving realistic examples to lead the reader toward their opinions....