Comments on: Tolerating everything but intolerance

By: Gert

Gert — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:47:00 +0000

But where would be without the Mail...?

The blogosphere would be emptier!

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 08:03:00 +0000

Does anyone else remember Private Eye’s demonstration of how to decode the message “THE DAILY MAIL IS PISS-POOR” contained in the Book of Revelation?

By: Andrew Bartlett

Andrew Bartlett — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:49:00 +0000

I think it is an appropriate time to point you all in the direction of the truth behind the Daily Mail.

By: Nick

Nick — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 07:32:00 +0000

But anyway the letters page plus Simon Heffer are surely worth it on their own?

Ah, yes, Simon Heffer, the ranting right-wing bigot all other ranting right-wing bigots aspire to become...

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:36:00 +0000

The Evening Standard was actually a half-decent paper from the mid-to-late 1990s under Max Hastings, where it had a mildly eccentric and decidedly old-fashioned one-nation Tory position that I found rather appealing amongst the rest of the Tory press, but since then Veronica Wadley has turned it into more or less a clone of the Mail - not quite as foam-flecked and venomous (except when Ken Livingstone is concerned), but along broadly the same lines.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:24:00 +0000

I read the Mail everyday as Fitness First gyms give it away. Well perhaps once a week. But anyway the letters page plus Simon Heffer are surely worth it on their own?

By: European Loser

European Loser — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:31:00 +0000

It’s strange that Metro is completely tolerable considering its relationship to the Daily Mail and Evening Standard. Almost as though they write sensible stories for Metro, then embellish them with crap for the other papers.

By: Michael

Michael — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:06:00 +0000

Well, that's a narrow escape - I often read the Mail in public, largely because I pick up a free abandoned copy during my daily commute most days.

Maybe I should have a T-shirt printed that says "I KNOW I'M READING THE MAIL BUT I DESPISE EVERYTHING IT STANDS FOR AND HAVE NEVER PAID FOR A COPY" in case John should ever be on the same train - but it might be a bit nippy at this time of year.

By: Anthony

Anthony — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:00:00 +0000

I loathe the Mail anyway because of it's fascination with pseudoscience and serialisations of books that claim fish aliens built the Pyramids, etc, etc...

If had read it in the past though, I'd be too damn scared to now :)

Actually John, thinking about it you could discover lots of new conspiracy theories by reading the Daily Mail.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 02 Dec 2004 10:01:00 +0000

I gotta start reading the Mail…