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

There's an enormous banner of Eva Braun in blackface, top front centre on the Daily Mail website right now.

I repeat, there's an enormous banner of Eva Braun in blackface, top front centre on the Daily Mail website right now.

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2011/03/10/article-1364687-0D8D6F29000005DC-320_964x268.jpg

So you don't have to...

The one with the Hitler portrait is arresting.

Are the DM suggesting that Eva Braun might have been a bit racist?

I want that polar bear outfit.

"We're racist bigots, but Hitler's girlfriend in blackface is too racist even for us!"

they don't seem disapproving at all, it's very hello!-esque. at home with the hitlers, amazing, intimate pics.

caption: Hitler shares a joke with his favourite comedian, Bernard Manning

OMG she's dressed as a man! Outrageous!

they don't seem disapproving at all, it's very hello!-esque. at home with the hitlers, amazing, intimate pics.

^^^ This. The tone is just out-and-out weird.

"We can laugh now, it was so long ago... Also, it wasn't all bad...."

Q2. So, after getting Eva to don blackface, did he
1. do songs from the B&W Minstrel show?
2. 'something else'

It does seem to be a thing the Mail enjoys, they ran more 'Hitler, sharing a joke' pictures last year. Very Homes and Gardens.

Next week, pictures of Stalin's water-skiing holiday.

The thing that EVERYONE seems to miss about madam braun is that she really did love him. You can't force a girl's heart after all. She really did love him and was in love with him. He made her wait. To make sure. And she was happy to wait. For him.

- Kev, Belfast, Ireland, 10/3/2011 10:45

"Dictator of Sorrows"

Zwei an einem Tag von David Nicholls

When Eva Braun does it, it's "fascinating". But when Matt Lucas does it, it's "racist". Make up your minds. - Matt, Norwich

Yeah, when will the PC brigade that run the Daily Mail face up to reality and concede that Hitler's wife might have been racist?

Maybe the notoriously feminist Daily Mail doesn't believe in defining women by what their husbands do?

they are amazingly ordered people... i do think the emperor has been photoshopped tho..that head is way to big for that body

- marcus, hemel hempstead, 16/3/2011 10:41

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palpatine

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0a/Palpatine_ROTJ.jpg/220px-Palpatine_ROTJ.jpg

a bit of Di for a change.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1367451/What-Diana-faked-death-living-false-identity-small-town-America.html

^ I read that earlier with some considerable amounts of incredulity.

I then caught up with the last couple of weeks of Liz Jones and her batshit insanity, figuring I was on their website anyway, I might as well read more of it. And now I hate the world again.

Exposed: Nuclear fuel rods inside wrecked reactor as experts predict radioactive plume will reach Britain in two weeks
By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
Last updated at 3:21 PM on 18th March 2011

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1367524/Japanese-tsunami-earthquake-Nuclear-fuel-rods-exposed.html#ixzz1GxyXlSuZ

the situation is about as fucked as it gets, but all the same, putting "radioactive plume will reach Britain in two weeks" there is just...

FREE TIN FOIL HAT with tomorrow's DM!

FREE BINOCLEARS WITH TODAYS TELEGRAPH!

(this is true, btw)

so you can see the radiation coming?

mmmmmm

Free Spandau Ballet CD in tomorrow's Mail on Sunday: the perfect match-up?

Nourished by tea, ham sandwiches and KitKats, dozens of Britons have been rescued from the Japanese quake zone in a quintessentially English operation.

[...]

Robert Murphy, 61, who teaches English at Fukushima University, joined the British exodus with his Japanese wife Tomoko.

Robert said of the quake: ‘The ground started going from side to side and then up and down. It didn’t stop. It was so violent. Ever since, the ground has been moving every day. I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, not even an enemy.’

He and his wife will go to their flat in Canterbury, Kent, before returning next month. He said: ‘It will be nice to have good-quality English bread and tea. We’ll stock up on Marks & Spencer and Sainsbury’s Gold Blend tea. We might have some fish and chips, too.’

Caption on one of the photos: Look what we survived

Now, is it just me, or does that sound like playground bragging?

Yes, I'm sure his Japanese wife will be glad to finally be able to eat and drink something better than that Japanese crap she's been having all her life. xpost

oh Richardpaws

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1368594/Japanese-earthquake-tsunami-My-wifes-PoW-grandad-wouldnt-mark-minutes-silence.html

ironic accusation of "militantly racist" there

i don't think there's another columnist at work right now who inspires such murderous loathing in me as littlejohn - not moir, not delingpole, no one. littlejohn is the actual worst.

Column summary: "it's wrong to blame this generation for the sins of the past, but I'm going to do it anyway"

just read peter hitchens on ADHD. sort of agree really.

What I love about Hitchens is that one minute he's trying to sound calm and reasonable and the next...

When, 20 years hence, Chinese or Russian jets, with UN Sanction, are destroying RAF bases and air defences because of some last-gasp British attempt to defend what's left of our sovereignty or suppress indigenous terrorism, they will silkily point out that they got the idea from us. Don't think it can't happen...

Littlejohn's taking the piss, isn't he? We have a bloke called Andrew Bolt who's exactly the same and just plays it up to get web hits and sell books.

just read peter hitchens on ADHD. sort of agree really.

he throws away any goodwill i might have had with this towards the end:

"Many of these definitions - 'autism', 'Asperger's' and so forth, turn out to be surprisingly vague when examined, covering enormously varied types of behaviour which doctors barely understand and for which they offer no solution. And then there is the question of whether the current huge increase in 'autism' may have a physical cause. The MMR controversy (which I won't go into here, having examined it at length many times in the Mail on Sunday) is just an example of how some doctors suspect that this may be so."

Skimmed a v. interesting book called The Myth of Autism the other week. There is quite a complicated, nuanced argument to be had about the pathology (if any) of neurodiversity and its social causes, in the same way that mental illness appears to be both socialized and pathological.

Fucked if P. Hitchens is gonna give it a complicated, nuanced argument tho. But Ritalin does seem like it might well be A Bad Thing.

Need to read Myth of Autism more carefully and it is not without v. contentious (read: "probably bollocks") assertions, but one of the authors has been diagnosed with Asperger's himself and it isn't yr typical "Dyslexia? More like bloody lazy" Daily Mail-esque diatribe.

Found the exploration of this (amongst other things) by Plasmon on the MMR thread to be v interesting.

And Mad Travellers (about socially transient mental illness) to be equally fascinating. Won't try and replicate the arguments tho because I'd bodge it.

Top stuff from Martin Samuel

After a week of Irish glory and glorification at Cheltenham and two very jolly days in Dublin to follow, many Englishmen would have felt the bond between our countries had become rather civilised these days.

So it came as something of a surprise to pick up the newspapers on Monday and discover what really inspired Ireland's Six Nations victory over England at the Aviva Stadium: hatred.

Andrew Trimble, the Ireland wing, let this slip, describing a rallying call from lock and most recent Lions captain Paul O'Connell prior to the game. 'I always love listening to him during England week,' Trimble said.
Andrew Trimble

'We wanted to get everything right technically, but we also wanted to use our physicality, our intensity, just a real hatred. We never get sick of beating England; that is why we enjoyed the win so much. There's a lot of history there.'

Indeed there is. Like the European Union's £73.7billion bailout for the failing Irish economy last November, that could end up costing British taxpayers in the region of £6.07bn.

Not many songs about that on Saturday, though, just the usual one about prison ships, prison walls and a terrible famine that took place 160 years ago yet is still thrown in the face of every visitor in an England shirt, as if it was cooked up in the Harlequins dressing room last Tuesday.

Maybe next time Martin Johnson visits he could give a rousing and equally relevant speech before the game based on vengeance for all the little kiddies abused by Ireland's paedophile priests.

Or is it only the English who have entries in the history books of which their modern descendants might be ashamed?

proper sore losing there

In spite of all the practice, still the world's worst losers

thanks to all the practice

http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/Pictures/web/w/a/o/martin_samuel.jpg

Why are the English rugby team (i.e. not England) so bad and hated