Why I love the Daily Mail, as distilled into one story.

you mean (c) internet? they're doing that a lot (at least as much as i can stand to look at their site, which is not much).

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do i click y/n

today's front cover is a treat.

xp - oh, you should click...

As he slopes around the world from interview to press conference, vanity drips from him like grease from a ­fatted calf roasting on the great spit of hubris.

people who write for the daily mail are generally awful writers, as well as generally awful people y/n?

We both know one person who works showbiz shifts for them and she's 100 per cent awesome. Manages to do the job without badmouthing women or getting into politics of envy in her copy.

Oh, one of my old editors from the Times writes showbiz for 'em too and he's 100% good people - I mean the type who write the hateful political tripe, who manage to combine moral scummery with a truly immoral abuse of the english language.

Best name ever for a blackmailer!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1337568/Woman-blackmailed-billionaire-3m-threatening-tell-wife-pregnant.html

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As he slopes around the world from interview to press conference, vanity drips from him like grease from a ­fatted calf roasting on the great spit of hubris.

― specifically, the word talking (Ned Trifle II), Friday, 10 December 2010 10:27 (Yesterday)

lol

Mail invents Australian state

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1351585/Stephen-Green-rails-immorality-voice-Christian-Britan-private-wife-beater-says-partner.html

kinda unexpected? mail goes IN rather effectively on that terrible cunt stephen green - exposing him as a domestic abuser...

As recently as the 14th January the D M was using quotes from Mr Green to support the Christian agenda. Has his number been removed from your speed dial list, in preference to somebody more credible?

- Anne, West Midlands, 29/1/2011 11:54

Oof. Burn, Daily Mail.

good grief, what a hateful individual, as well.

I hope that got 'liked' a lot.

ha

http://onethingwell.org/post/3483841300/churnalism

it's not very good: http://churnalism.com/rkkqs/#1ksp1

"Mr Spendley, an amateur rock musician, wowed pupils with the toy ‘lightsaber’ he kept in his classroom as a symbol of his contempt for authority."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367723/Teacher-Mark-Spendley-confronted-ex-pupils-claim-seduced-them.html

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/04/09/article-0-0B8EF1CB00000578-734_306x319.jpg

Even more amazing:

http://news.sky.com/sky-news/content/StaticFile/jpg/2011/Apr/Week2/15969526.jpg

surely that is a shop???

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Reggie Moondogg. DM couldn't make it up, it's too good.

speculative thread for The official Royal Wedding guest list?

Ex lovers! Cue outrage about this, plus pictures, biographies and listings of them all (you couldn't make up a name like Isabella Anstruther-Gough-Calthorpe )

http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/femail/article-1375329/Royal-wedding-Official-guest-list-revealed-Kate-Middleton-asks-2-ex-loves.html

What this basically reveals, Waity Katey in pursuit of her dream has no friends. If in a guest list of 1900 odd, the bride can only scare up a handful of girls, it speaks volumes about her. It looks like most of 'their' friends are in fact William's, but then that is not knew since we all know she keeps quiet, at the ready for him and whatever /whomever he likes, she likes. Cannot trust this girl.

- Julie, London, 10/4/2011 9:30

I bet Julie made school fun.

what are the chances of sneaking through some kind of Early Day Motion making it legal to assassinate anyone who actually calls her 'Waity Katey'

if someone said that out loud, wouldn't everyone hear Weighty Katey?

Seriously, I know you don't like giving them clicks but this is too great to miss...

What kind of Britain will William and Catherine rule? Dominic Sandbrook imagines the country they will inherit

Be sure to read the comments!

A small number read a newspaper called the Guardian, now long defunct.

already comedy gold.

Elections come and go. So do Prime Ministers, from Cooper and her husband Ed Balls to Britain’s first Asian premier, Sadiq Khan. But beneath the headlines and the tittle-tattle, little of substance ever changes.

lol yeah because no foreign trade, no cars and a wind turbine on every house is little of substance

ok damn china just happened.

"Britain’s first Asian premier, Sadiq Khan" - think this unlikely exaggeration made for the purposes of humour is the most telling.

Doubt that they will rule. Cameron is taking the first steps to change and eventually destroy the monarchy. Bliar and Brown handed over the ruling of the UK to the EU. And in such a corrupt and unelected institution there is no place for a UK monarchy . Just as the EU is destroying nations, monarchies will follow.
- norman hall, norwich england EUSSR ruled, 2/5/2011 8:28

Anyone know what these "first steps" are supposed to be?

Dealing with Liberals innit.

in such a corrupt and unelected institution there is no place for a UK monarchy

norwich is ruled by the EUSSR? what is delia playing at?

The Daily Mail has been forced to publish a series of amendments to articles claiming Scottish football manager Gordon Strachan was bisexual, had an affair with a male aide to the royal family and had a cocaine habit.

Strachan complained to the Press Complaints Commission that the articles – published in 2007 and 2008, and which remained available on the newspaper’s website – contained numerous inaccuracies.

Strachan said the newspaper was wrong to refer to him as bisexual and that he was “heterosexual and has never had anything other than platonic relationships with men”.

Strachan also said the paper was wrong to have suggested he had a regular cocaine habit and had pretended to be dead to avoid paying a woman – Laura Gosling, the source for the story – money she claimed he owed her.

first thought: haha wtf?

second: the mail or its source appears to have got confused between football manager and tv personality gordon strachan, who might struggle to fake his own death without attracting considerable attention, and royal blackmailer ian strachan. easy mistake to make!

That's hilarious. It's the Press Gazette at fault but the story has been up on their site for half an hour without anyone fixing it.

pretended to be dead to avoid paying a woman

this was just at the end of a meal, woman was a waitress btw

I love it when people scramble to deny claims that they had relations with someone of the same sex, like gayness is somehow a bad thing.

That's hilarious. It's the Press Gazette at fault but the story has been up on their site for half an hour without anyone fixing it.

― I LOVE BELARUS (ShariVari), Thursday, 12 May 2011 12:37 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol yeah: https://twitter.com/#!/pressgazette/status/68641788184899584

they've spelled "Strachan" wrong twice in that Tweet. quality work.

I love it when people scramble to deny claims that they had relations with someone of the same sex, like gayness is somehow a bad thing.

How about using it as an excuse to fiddle your expenses?

more like Gordon Strap-on amirite

That twitter link is gone.

OK, wow, that's just... wow.

So, hang on: the Mail HASN'T apologised to Gordon Strachan? Guess this means he's out. Nice work, Daily Mail. What Gordon Strachan gets up to with men in the privacy of his own house is his own business, if you ask me.

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