Reply to: Does anyone here like the daily mail?

[BrilloPad]

I think you'll find it's 'Independent'. I don't know whether to blame modern trendy teaching methods or the trashy newspapers that people read these days.

As its CUK why not blame everybody?

[speling bee]

In the Independant they would have worded it "British Troops Are Killing Muslims".

I think you'll find it's 'Independent'. I don't know whether to blame modern trendy teaching methods or the trashy newspapers that people read these days.

[GreenerGrass]

Its about balance. If the likes of The Guardian persist in telling us all that massive immigration is a great benefit despite the government stats on welfare, health and crime, we need someone to tell the other side.

The Mail is a lot closer to the truth TBH. Check where most of the worst street crime comes from, who mostly runs the home grown cannabis trade, London's vice trade and credit card fraud. Check who are the ethnic groups claiming the most welfare and social housing, have the worst health or are disproportionately represented in prison. You won't have to visit any BNP or right wing sites to do it.

Properly controlled immigration of high earning people prepared to fit in can certainly be a benefit but what we actually have is quite something else. Time people stopped being blackmailed by accusation of racism from mentioning the downsides of a very lax system.

Well said Xoggoth (arghh, I'm agreeing with Cyberman), although some of the stories are ridiculous at times you have to counter the frankly absurd amount of government, liberal and special interest minority group propaganda that portrays everything as being rosy and covers up what's really happening.

Not that I actually buy the Mail, The Telegraph is not a bad rag.
In terms of entertainment the best discussion threads tend to be on the Guardian website, especially when people go on there to antagonise lefties.

But The Express wins today's inflamm-a-tory headline of the day with the classic "British Muslims Are Killing Our Troops".
http://www.express.co.uk/ourpaper/view/2009-02-26

In the Independant they would have worded it "British Troops Are Killing Muslims".

[PM-Junkie]

Off topic slightly, but if you want a real giggle I heartily recommend Fox News. I don't think it is possible to watch that for more than 15 minutes without laughing...

[Board Game Geek]

Poor old Daily Mail has got a bit of a kicking from the literal giants on here today.



I think I'll go back to the New Scientist and the BBC newspage for my fix from now on.

[Pogle]

When I get time, I read the Guardian.
One of the chaps at ClientoCo very kindly gives me his papers to read at the end of the day as he knows I'm a bit bored in the evenings away from home. They are the Sun and the Mail.
I wouldn’t buy either, but at least the Sun doesn’t try to disguise it's a comic. I read the Mail a couple of times, but frankly I found it hideous. I now put them both into the recycle bin.

[sasguru]

While investing in a bank offering 125% self cert mortgages, and largely reliant on wholesale credit markets for funding. Then having the cheek to winge to us about how such a well run business was stolen by the government when the obvious happened.

You sir are a hypocrite!

cretin

[Doggy Styles]

Surely a 'balanced' approach would point out all the white fraudsters who've done all the dodgy deals at the banks, who've taken the rewards for irresponsible risk taking and white collar crime. Lots of white folks involved in that ....

As far as I can see, the mail does. It prints pictures of the gang leaders and they haven't even broken the law.

[Cyberman]

Sorry but if you say you respect someone, at least get your facts right FFS.

Turnip head was Graham Taylor not Bobby Robson.

Numpty.

You're the numpty, cos other papers started with Graham Taylor, and the Express followed a few years later by doing the same thing to Robson. That was exactly the reason I stopped buying the Express. I could understand them doing it to Taylor, but to a highly respected man such as Bobby Robson was unforgiveable!!

[Bagpuss]

Now he has the bare-faced cheek to say that 100% mortgages should never again be allowed, when I was arguing three years ago for stronger credit-controls.

While investing in a bank offering 125% self cert mortgages, and largely reliant on wholesale credit markets for funding. Then having the cheek to winge to us about how such a well run business was stolen by the government when the obvious happened.

You sir are a hypocrite!

[Pondlife]

I used to read the Express up until the early 90s when they printed a picture of a man that I had so much respect for, Bobby Robson with a turnip/swede on his head. That finished it for me. I wonder what reaction they would get if they did that again today !!

The Sun

Edit: Coalman has already highlighted the other glaring error.

[ThomasSoerensen]

When I am working away I get the mail every day. my M.O. is to start reading and aim to get to the sodookio before I have had two pints, otherwise it gets too hard. After a hard day on the sql server thats usually 25-30 minutes
After the sodookio I scribble cash flow notes in the margins for the rest of the evening.

if you read a proper paper you would know it is called Sudoku.

[Coalman]

I used to read the Express up until the early 90s when they printed a picture of a man that I had so much respect for, Bobby Robson with a turnip/swede on his head. That finished it for me. I wonder what reaction they would get if they did that again today !!

Sorry but if you say you respect someone, at least get your facts right FFS.

Turnip head was Graham Taylor not Bobby Robson.

Numpty.

[Cyberman]

Surely a 'balanced' approach would point out all the white fraudsters who've done all the dodgy deals at the banks, who've taken the rewards for irresponsible risk taking and white collar crime. Lots of white folks involved in that. Crime is about opportunity. If you're a black kid from a run down neighbourhood, the crime available to you is mugging people or nicking cars.m However if you're a white kid fro a middle class neighbourhood then fraud, tax evasion (I'm not sure if I call that a crime really) and financial jiggery-pokery are your misdemeanours of choice. Obviously, most white folks are not fraudsters, just as most black folks are not thieves or muggers. Balance would also show that the white collar criminals perhaps cause even greater damage to society than the low life thieves.

'Dodgy' deals at the banks were done with the full approval of HMG for many years. These deals kept the economy on a roll and Gordon Brown knew it. As long as he got his annual GDP growth increases and associated taxes he turned a blind eye. Now he has the bare-faced cheek to say that 100% mortgages should never again be allowed, when I was arguing three years ago for stronger credit-controls.
To equate bankers with the purpetrators of violent robbery, muggings, burglary etc just shows what is wrong with our society. Give me financial crime to violent crime or crime against the individual any day.

[Bagpuss]

"A Labour wife and her disastrous fashion statement at the Queen Mum's Statue Unveiling."




All that needed was a little fine tuning:

A Labour wife of pro immigration minister (pictured outside their £2 million surrey mansion) and her disastrous fashion statement at the Queen Mum's Statue Unveiling.