I've said it before and doubtless I'll say it again, but the left's characterisation of the Daily Mail as the epitome of modern conservatism is ludicrous when you look at just how much liberal kool aid the Mail actually drinks. Sadie Nicholas asks 'How CAN A Man Murder His Own Children?' Beats me, but I bet the answer involves scumbaggery somewhere. Maybe she should ask Rosa Monckton? On the same ...

Enemies of Reason has been looking at the way the Daily Mail reports the tragic cases that occur from time to time when a man kills his children and then himself . And then - he looks at the message boards! There does seem to be a worrying trend among Daily Mail commentators to somehow blame "feminism" and the government for what seem like the cruel acts of mentally disturbed men. It stands in mar...

Sunder has published an open letter to Paul Dacre, the fabulously remunerated editor of The Daily Mail. Reproduced in full. Dear Mr Dacre, I was disappointed to read reported in today’s Daily Mail that the newspaper regards it as a mistake to consider that the children or grandchildren of immigrants are British, but rather would classify us

On July 22nd I wrote a small blog entry on my website about a dodgy article in the Daily Mail about children with special educational needs. Of course the article in the Mail doesn’t explicitly say there is no such things as Special Needs because in doing this, not only would they be wrong (this shouldn’t phase them too much), they’d open up the grounds for a whole campaign and w...

Thanks to Sunder for highlighting this. An article in the Daily Mail says: However although the figures from the Government’s Office for National Statistics show an increase in numbers of foreign born people they still fail to record the true impact of immigration because they record their children as British rather than second or third generation

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

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

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

When it's in the Daily Mail apparently. I'm very late to this story about the Daily Mail from the indispensable Tabloid Watch blog, but it's an instructive case nonetheless. Having accused a senior medical consultant of saying that babies born at 23 weeks should be left to die, the Daily Mail then did some research and found out they'd got it wrong (always a danger when the research bit follows th...