The purpose of the site is simple; editors will be quietly documenting outright lies peddled by the Daily Mail, and seeking to bring this culture of fear and falsehood to the attention of those Mail readers curious enough to use a search engine or browse the evil underground world of weblogs. Go see. They’ve got a

What’s up in blogs and news. In the media The expenses row continues to rumble with the MP for my ancestral  home of Leominster getting scalped by the Telegraph alongside Ruth Kelly and a duck, if the pictures are to be believed. Meanwhile over the Daily Mail has been working hard to bring you this extreme comparison with

Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre tells MPs that 'no win, no fee' deals for libel are hampering press freedom Paul Dacre, the Daily Mail editor, today attacked "greedy libel law firms" Schillings and Carter Ruck, while conceding newspapers had made mistakes in reporting Madeleine McCann's disappearance. Dacre told MPs on the House of Commons culture, media and sport select committee that...

Going past a newstand just now I glimpsed the Daily Mail and was reminded once again - with shattering clarity - that I inhabit a completely different universe from Daily Mail readers - or at least a completely different universe from the one which Daily Mail journalists think their readers inhabit. 40 kids dead in a UN school in Gaza and what does the bloody Daily Mail lead on? THE GREAT

The Daily Mail have put their finest hack onto the Liam Fox case. Peter McKay, the journalist regularly lampooned by Private Eye, has given us his the benefit of his profound insight, and it's good to see that he's maintained the Mail's reputation for rigorous, thorough, innuendo-free analysis as he writes: There is a final, delicate reason why Cameron and Co might have shied away from dealing wit...

In October I made my first ever complaint to the Press Complaints Commission over a xenophobic piece in the Daily Mail blaming foreigners for the summer riots. I have just had the response from the PCC, which has backed the Daily Mail in saying the code was not breached. The ruling is below but my

If this article from the Daily Mail has any truth about (and I believe that it does) then there is a major Downing Street cover-up in operation. As I pointed out HERE, if Daily Mail source is right, then Labour Whips are fully aware or some very dodgy practices being perpetrated by some of their MPS. If Ministers and MPs have made indiscretions so bad that they are will have to resign in July, and...

David Cameron is to vow to change the law to stop three MPs charged with false accounting from escaping justice.

A reader emails to draw my attention to an excellent piece of investigation from Martin, the Lay Scientist. Compare this with this. This is a new low, even for the Daily Mail. On one level, it is funny. Very funny. But on another, more serious level, it is the most cynical disreputable journalistic behaviour imaginable. Even for the Daily Mail Full story at The Lay Scientist ++++++++++ The Daily M...

Four years on, I’m still a Daily Mail reader (even if they think I’m a foreigner). Here’s an updated explanation. I once rang the Daily Mail to mildly complain about a story I had a connection with. The journalist I spoke to put me on hold while he conferred with a colleague. At least, he thought he