Why I hate the Daily Mail, as distilled into one edition

it is tbf?

Yeah, it's nice to see us putting aside our differences and embracing our shared love for violent cruelty and vengeance.

fly a plane into the paedos' homes, tbh

Yeah, then we'd all vote Osama!

A 'name and shame' campaign combined with encouraging suicide bombings would get rid of paedophiles and braindead vigilantes, so maybe worth considering.

get a camera crew to follow both parties

UK sharia law: can't come soon enough, online readership conclude

one of my favourite segments from Down The Line took this very theme

Personally, I think beheading and crucifiction isn't good enough.

- Neil Smith, Portsmouth, Hampshire, UK, 4/11/2009 19:58

Now that's what I call a hardliner, someone willing to bring back hanging, drawing and quartering.

it's good to see religious hate put aside and everyone united against paedophilia!

just in case we were losing sight of the actual sentiment i was agreeing with.

It's not fair Germaine Greer gets to do all the articles about women in the 1960s, I'm easily as bonkers as her - says Bel Mooney My generation created the sexual revolution - and it has been wrecking the lives of women ever since

there was something truly showstopping by one Rosa Monkton about Labour's family advisor yesterday

I love the photo they have used with this one to illustrate the 60s (but if pixellated nipples are deemed nsfw don't click on the jpg below)

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/02/article-1232485-076D7700000005DC-446_468x286.jpg

And what has all this terrible sex and drinking forced on us by those hippies led to - I hear you ask? Behold the full extent of how far we have fallen down the cesspit of our own making...

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/12/01/article-1232485-0742CB46000005DC-136_468x567.jpg

As the writer and feminist pioneer Rosie Boycott has said: 'What was insidious about the underground was that it pretended to be alternative. But it wasn't providing an alternative for women. It was providing an alternative for men in that there were no problems about screwing around.'

http://southparkstudios.mtvnimages.com/images/shows/southpark/vertical_video/import/season_03/sp_0304_01_v6.jpg

Rosie Boycott, yesterday

Stephen Glover - please fuck off.
Her timing was insensitive and her tone may have jarred. But in the light of new revelations it's hard to find fault with what Jan Moir wrote about Stephen Gately's sad death

Stephen Glover - please fuck off.

I often think this.

The Daily Mail is a fucking shitrag.

here is that brilliant rosa monkton article

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1232185/ROSA-MONCKTON-Dr-Rake-live-sink-estate-year.html

I suspect that the avalanche of complaints, and most of the abuse directed at Jan, came from a small but vocal minority, some of whom had probably not even read her original article.

Funnily enough, I suspect that almost all of them did read the article.

If Stephen Gately had been ‘Stephanie’, and Georgi Dochev had been ‘Georgiana’, blah blah blah

We now know the details because Georgi Dochev has given a long and shocking interview in the Sunday Mirror that has been barely noticed in the wider world.

Zing!

ha, yeah.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1238839/Ive-liked-homeless--theyre-smelly-scary-So-Christmas-shift-shelter-change-mind.html

More from Liz Jones...

* LIZ JONES: Plus-size models are all the rage, but is fashion really ready to embrace them? 27/12/09
* LIZ JONES: There I stood, homeless with my Prada case 26/12/09
* LIZ JONES: The award for worst dressed celebrity of the year goes to... 23/12/09
* LIZ JONES: Wish me a lonely Christmas and spare a thought for the millions of women like me 20/12/09
* LIZ JONES: When race, religion and 'culture' must come second to what is right 20/12/09
* LIZ JONES: The fox shrug and leather pants say it all... Posh has blown it again 16/12/09
* LIZ JONES FASHION THERAPY: 20 ways to feel glamorous without spending a fortune... 13/12/09
* LIZ JONES: Give bankers a break, they're not puppy murderers after all 12/12/09
* VIEW FULL ARCHIVE

I keep being tempted to start a Liz Jones thread on here, but it's like shooting fish in a barrel, really.

I mean, this...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1238565/LIZ-JONES.html

She really is hateful.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ca/Bundesarchiv_B_145_Bild-F051673-0059%2C_Adolf_Hitler_und_Eva_Braun_auf_dem_Berghof.jpg

"Admittedly I don't really like people all that much. I've always much preferred animals. They love you back, unconditionally. They never betray you"

went with

http://blogs.browardpalmbeach.com/pulp/CrazyCatLady.jpg

but yeah

i think she's almost a tragic figure. she certainly seems hugely damaged and fucked up and miserable, and i guess that makes her the ideal columnist for the mail, because miserable and damaged women are, for them, the best kind.

There's no fucking excuse for pish like this though:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1229399/LIZ-JONES-What-happened-I-tried-live-65-week.html

(though major lolz at the picture where she's ripped her leggings to shreds to denote her extreme poverty)

she's just insane really, isn't she? like, most of the mail peeps seem calculating and evil, but she's just proper batshit.

This comment on the £65 a week article is otm:

I know what's happened here. For years the Mail has been ranting about how anyone on the dole lives like Bill Gates while the affluent middle-classes are somehow poor because they struggle paying for private school and a million quid mortgage. Then the recession hits and lots of said middle-class people get thrown on the dole and find out that shockingly the DSS don't give fortunes in benefits. So irate readers stop buying the paper and the Mail eds decide to do a 'sympathy for the devil <unemployed>' piece to get them back. However they get Jones to write it and she turns in a piece so patronising it would win a bad journalism Oscar - if such a thing existed. And by the way, is Jones having a mental breakdown? Her writing is now bordering on the insane....
- Ruth, Kettering, 20/11/2009 8:36

(though major lolz at the picture where she's ripped her leggings to shreds to denote her extreme poverty)

I think that may be a style feature...See excerpt from this Observer profile in August 2009:

Jones is wearing a pinstripe jacket with muddy cuffs - Dries Van Noten, I will later discover; a relic from her old life in London - and a pair of grubby knitted jodpurs so amazingly holey they resemble laddered tights. The effect is highly eccentric.

Ah, is her batty country chic, is it? OK. I must admit her columns are my guilty pleasure, but I do sort of feel I am peering through the windows of the asylum and mocking the freakshow within.

First against the wall come the revolution. Honestly.

her vs stephen glover amirite

it was at least a year ago that i thought liz jones had finally tipped over the edge and yet she somehow still outdoes herself every damn time out. i don't know how she does it. i gawp at her mentalness. if what she writes about her finances is true, this is going to have an edifying ending...

can someone explain to me liz jones' career path, or has she always been this way

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1239051/LEO-McKINSTRY-Sorry-join-liberal-wailing-heroin-traffickers-deserve-die.html

worldbeating URLs part 94

In China, the death penalty can be invoked against anyone carrying more than 50g of drugs - and that is one obvious reason why China, proportionally, has nothing like the drugs problem that we have in Britain.

the state slaughter of citizen problem otoh is not so prominent here iirc

Should Akmal Shaikh have been executed?

* Yes 64%
* No 36%

Ah, Daily Mail readers are all heart, aren't they?

It's probably such an even split because tis the season for charity and forgiveness.

Just take this drug dealer out and shoot him and stop the bleeding hearts from trying to get him back here where he'll be released from prison 'because he's got a mental problem'.
He's got a problem all right and it's because he's been caught with a suitcase full of heroin. Well tough! The Chinese have got it right and I hope they tell dopey Gordon and all the other HR activists to 'sod off' and mind their own business. It's a shame the moron won't take a leaf out of China's book and deal with people like this properly.
If they need someone to execute people like this, I'm in the queue like millions of other 'true Brits'. Voted Up: 456

I fully support Tory proposals to give us the absolute right to kill burglars. They should go further.

Rather than just allow us to kill criminals within the comfort of our own homes, we should be allowed to frogmarch them to the nearest shopping centre where special execution zones will have been set up.

Indeed, we should not have to wait until the burglars actually enter our house. The Cleansing Centres should be used on anyone wearing a hood, anyone sporting worrying skin tones or having unusual accents, anyone who did not vote for our new Tory Overlords and Simon Cowell.

- Simon, Oxford, 29/12/2009 10:12

simon, oxford, chris morris fan XD

can someone explain to me liz jones' career path, or has she always been this way

Journalist on 'women's magazines'
Previously editor at UK version of Marie-Claire magazine
An editor at Evening Standard
Author of a handful of books.
Super-successful as a 'confessional columnist' in the Mail, and authoor of spin-off books about her brief failed marriage and subsequent divorce.

I'm coming round to the view, that she's adopted this persona as her USP. I'm sure she really is intensely neurotic, even OCD and anorexic, and her columns have some basis in fact, but everything about them is severely exaggerated for effect (including the accompanying photos:

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/11/19/article-1229399-07490CBD000005DC-173_233x423.jpg

"Hard times: Liz Jones tried to get by on benefits for a week"

the number of pictures of her that accompany her articles lead me to believe that she is quite the narcissist

*leads

i think liz jones thinks it's an act

In my capacity as a literary ed I went to her ex-husband's book launch, so the five minutes I spent speaking to her were not enough to form much of an opinion but she was perfectly pleasant in that setting (but I hate it when 'public' women are neurotic about aging, as she is). Mind, I was also there in my capacity as person who was curious to meet Julie Burchill, since I'd worked for her without doing so before. Guess which monomaniac was the more interesting? No, really...go on.