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...

The excellent blog The Enemies of Reason asks the question as to why the Daily Mail hates the BBC so much. He points out it could have something to do with the fact that the Daily Mail General Trust owns 20% of ITN.

There's nothing more than the Daily Mail likes to cover a story about gay adoption. And if the child has been ripped away from Grandparents and given to gay parents, so much the better. So it was hardly a surprise to find the story on the front page of the Daily Mail this morning. I have no idea how accurate it is, or whether there's more to this than meets the eye. There probably is. Th...

The Daily Mail and Trevor Phillips once had a great relationship. The newspaper used to say that the former head of the Commission for Racial Equality was a fearless critic of multiculturalism.. the only black man to speak the truth about the state of race relations today etc etc. Trevor Phillips used to helpfully write articles in the Daily Mail saying that we had bent over backwards for multicul...

Just as the Daily Mail is taking down istyosty.com for copyright infringement, up pops another story involving the Daily Mail and copyright infringement. This time, the boot is on the other foot… A few days ago, I snapped a picture in The GAP on Oxford Street: their ALWAYS SKINNY mannequins’ legs are not only always

A few hours ago now Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail poured a Molotov Cocktail and sat back, ready to watch the PC brigade scream. Monday’s Daily Mail frontpage has one of those frontpage stories that’ll make you tut and say “typical Mail“. But it’s so typical in fact, that I think it’s worth