The Mail is saying that the SD holiday will definitely not be extended

[steve99]

9 hours ago, HovelinHove said:

The Mail is a mixed bag in terms of reporting and those who never read it and use generalisations to smear all those who visit the site are very ignorant of not only the broad range of views but also its power. It is very popular in the UK because it is free. It is also one of the few sites that represents the center right viewpoint that has dominated UK politics pretty much forever. People here and on the Guardian seem to forget that outside of London and Brighton, most people are small c conservative and detest the BBC/Guardian type thinking. The Mail has writers who are dead center, and those who on the right, like Peter Hitchens. Their editor in chief is very much of the center. If you never visit the Mail, then you you will never understand what other people are thinking. There is lots of tabloid trash stories, but some reasonable analysis as well. It is the lower middle class yardstick of public opinion, just like the Sun/mirror are working class, and the Telegraph/Times/Guardian are middle class yardsticks. 

I look at most newspaper websites....subscribe to the Telegraph, but visit the BBC, Guardian and Mail. That way you get a better viewpoint. The comments sections are often the best bits, especially the Daily Telegraph, and I would be very surprised if senior Tory politicians didn’t have underlings reporting back on the most up liked comments on some articles. It is, as others have pointed out, a cheap way of doing focus groups.

Rubbish.  The only reason the DM places the apparently lefty-conflicting story is so they can point out further up the track how right they were. The paper sees its place in the UK world as being a right wing influencer.  It does this by using lots of 'look over there'  stories about how ''unemployed with 6 kids in a big house, eating YOUR tax'' .  As for the telegraph you subscribe to, it employed Boris for £250kpa for writing a worthless column which was nothing but scathing of the EU.

Bad covid outcome is because we have the right wing nut job government that the Daily mail (and acomplices) told everyone to vote for

Brexit, thanks again Daily mail (and Express, Sun, Times, Telegraph) for filling the idiot end of the populations heads with lies and exaggerations while at the same time not mentioning the yet to be fully apparent hidden agenda.

[goldbug9999]

10 minutes ago, steve99 said:

 

we have the right wing nut job government

If only. What we actually have is not-quite-as-socialist-as-the-faux-socialist-labour-party wet supplicant toothless shower who have somehow managed to do only one decent thing (brexit). 

[zugzwang]

2 hours ago, NobodyInParticular said:

You need to get out more if you think that. There are significant enclaves of BBC (which many complain is right wing now, so I'm not sure what you are saying) and Guardian reading people all over, even in 'the North', and you are discounting an entire country, a Scotland.

 

The Guardian newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1821 and published as The Manchester Guardian until 1959.

[steve99]

9 hours ago, goldbug9999 said:

If only. What we actually have is not-quite-as-socialist-as-the-faux-socialist-labour-party wet supplicant toothless shower who have somehow managed to do only one decent thing (brexit). 

Pig sh*    t.  What do you want? Trump? Hitler?  We have a full on corrupt, crony capitalist, vested interest in charge of the trough. ie a typical right wing government and no Brexit was a total heist by the extreme right wing of the Tory party so they can get on with their money laundering and crapping on the poorest behind closed doors.   you know this.  

[NobodyInParticular]

4 hours ago, goldbug9999 said:

If only. What we actually have is not-quite-as-socialist-as-the-faux-socialist-labour-party wet supplicant toothless shower who have somehow managed to do only one decent thing (brexit). 

Eh?

Edited January 10 by NobodyInParticular

[HovelinHove]

5 hours ago, steve99 said:

Rubbish.  The only reason the DM places the apparently lefty-conflicting story is so they can point out further up the track how right they were. The paper sees its place in the UK world as being a right wing influencer.  It does this by using lots of 'look over there'  stories about how ''unemployed with 6 kids in a big house, eating YOUR tax'' .  As for the telegraph you subscribe to, it employed Boris for £250kpa for writing a worthless column which was nothing but scathing of the EU.

Bad covid outcome is because we have the right wing nut job government that the Daily mail (and acomplices) told everyone to vote for

Brexit, thanks again Daily mail (and Express, Sun, Times, Telegraph) for filling the idiot end of the populations heads with lies and exaggerations while at the same time not mentioning the yet to be fully apparent hidden agenda.

Lol, oh the irony hearing someone like you talking about the idiot end of the population. Teehee.

[MARTINX9]

10 hours ago, zugzwang said:

The Guardian newspaper, founded in Manchester in 1821 and published as The Manchester Guardian until 1959.

Would that be the same Manchester Guardian which was founded by John Edward Taylor who made his money in the cotton trade which used slave labour. And the same paper which backed the Confederacy in the US civil war?

If we are giving a history lesson that is.

[msi]

Just now, MARTINX9 said:

Would that be the same Manchester Guardian which was founded by John Edward Taylor who made his money in the cotton trade which used slave labour. And the same paper which backed the Confederacy in the US civil war?

If we are giving a history lesson that is.

Some people evolve, others stay in the swap, eh?

[MARTINX9]

Just now, msi said:

Some people evolve, others stay in the swap, eh?

Perhaps - but if you as a paper and through your columnists promote the case for the descendants and beneficiaries of slavery to pay reparations perhaps one might suggest you begin at home?

 

[Trump Invective]

21 hours ago, crazypabs said:

Sorry to burst that bubble...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-55586081

Sorry I wasn't being clear - I meant on HPC - but I was wrong again, it was being discussed on a relevant thread!

[zugzwang]

10 hours ago, MARTINX9 said:

Would that be the same Manchester Guardian which was founded by John Edward Taylor who made his money in the cotton trade which used slave labour. And the same paper which backed the Confederacy in the US civil war?

If we are giving a history lesson that is.

The paper had a very liberal outlook, back in the day. Many on the left would argue that it still does.

[Joris Bohnson]

Ah, the Daily Mail.

 

[zugzwang]

10 hours ago, MARTINX9 said:

Perhaps - but if you as a paper and through your columnists promote the case for the descendants and beneficiaries of slavery to pay reparations perhaps one might suggest you begin at home?

 

And while we're talking reparations, let's not forget the millions of First Natives slaughtered or made homeless by the colonial butchers in pursuit of their 'manifest destiny.'

[rantnrave]

Daily Mail-o-matic

It’s that simple – this gives you a new Daily Mail headline every time you click the button. 

http://www.qwghlm.co.uk/toys/dailymail/

[steve99]

On 10/01/2021 at 10:01, HovelinHove said:

Lol, oh the irony hearing someone like you talking about the idiot end of the population. Teehee.

In comparison to what?  a right wing nut job? a tory devotee? a brexiteer?  you ?      Dont think so buddy.

[HovelinHove]

On 11/01/2021 at 14:30, steve99 said:

In comparison to what?  a right wing nut job? a tory devotee? a brexiteer?  you ?      Dont think so buddy.

You are the problem. Yours and the millions like you who have complete intolerance of all views that don’t align with yours is the source of so much ill today. It is (collective) you and your arrogance that pushed so many from the centre and created Trump. Your conceit that only you are able to think correctly and that anyone who deviates from that position is a “Mail reading idiot”. In my life I have adopted positions both left and right on different issues, but you...you are incapable of nuance, empathy or reasoned thinking. You are the disease at the heart of our society that was once tolerant and pleasant. You will reap the whirlwind you sow.

Edited January 12 by HovelinHove

[hughjass]

Anyone heard the Daily Mail song

(1) The Daily Mail Song - YouTube

[TheCountOfNowhere]

Tory propaganda arm screaming for their investments to be propped up by the poor 

 

Property market will melt down without stamp duty extension, Sunak warned
telegraph.co.uk

[Martin_JD]

3 hours ago, HovelinHove said:

You are the problem. Yours and the millions like you who have complete intolerance of all views that don’t align with yours is the source of so much ill today. It is (collective) you and your arrogance that pushed so many from the centre and created Trump. Your conceit that only you are able to think correctly and that anyone who deviates from that position is a “Mail reading idiot”. In my life I have adopted positions both left and right on different issues, but you...you are incapable of nuance, empathy or reasoned thinking. You are the disease at the heart of our society that was once tolerant and pleasant. You will reap the whirlwind you sow.

This Daily Mail is a toxic rag. 

 

[Innkeeper]

3 hours ago, HovelinHove said:

You are the problem. Yours and the millions like you who have complete intolerance of all views that don’t align with yours is the source of so much ill today. It is (collective) you and your arrogance that pushed so many from the centre and created Trump. Your conceit that only you are able to think correctly and that anyone who deviates from that position is a “Mail reading idiot”. In my life I have adopted positions both left and right on different issues, but you...you are incapable of nuance, empathy or reasoned thinking. You are the disease at the heart of our society that was once tolerant and pleasant. You will reap the whirlwind you sow.

I hope you haven’t visited the Bitcoin threads.....😳

[rantnrave]

10 hours ago, TheCountOfNowhere said:

Tory propaganda arm screaming for their investments to be propped up by the poor 

 

Property market will melt down without stamp duty extension, Sunak warned
telegraph.co.uk

It's on the front page of their printed edition today

Edit to add - see bottom right and the lovely graphic!

Edited January 13 by rantnrave

[TheCountOfNowhere]

Feel the total and utter desperation

 

 

If you are on twitter, I urge you to make these scumbags know your feelings.

 

 

[iamnumerate]

On 10/01/2021 at 10:47, HovelinHove said:

The Mail is a mixed bag in terms of reporting and those who never read it and use generalisations to smear all those who visit the site are very ignorant of not only the broad range of views but also its power. It is very popular in the UK because it is free. It is also one of the few sites that represents the center right viewpoint that has dominated UK politics pretty much forever. People here and on the Guardian seem to forget that outside of London and Brighton, most people are small c conservative and detest the BBC/Guardian type thinking. The Mail has writers who are dead center, and those who on the right, like Peter Hitchens. Their editor in chief is very much of the center. If you never visit the Mail, then you you will never understand what other people are thinking. There is lots of tabloid trash stories, but some reasonable analysis as well. It is the lower middle class yardstick of public opinion, just like the Sun/mirror are working class, and the Telegraph/Times/Guardian are middle class yardsticks. 

I look at most newspaper websites....subscribe to the Telegraph, but visit the BBC, Guardian and Mail. That way you get a better viewpoint. The comments sections are often the best bits, especially the Daily Telegraph, and I would be very surprised if senior Tory politicians didn’t have underlings reporting back on the most up liked comments on some articles. It is, as others have pointed out, a cheap way of doing focus groups.

 

It also broke the biggest sports scandal in recent years.  I suspect that if the RFU were run by guardian readers Saracens would not have been relegated.  Saracens could have just said to other Rugby Clubs, "Do you believe the Daily Fail?".

Then the RFU would have said, "Of course not, sorry".

Depressingly the wikipedia article on the scandal doesn't mention the paper that first reported it.  How meanspirited is that?

[Unmoderated]

On 09/01/2021 at 13:49, rantnrave said:

Testing the public reaction to the idea. A few angry Facebook posts will no doubt cause a u-turn.

Karen is absolutely FUMIN'

[Unmoderated]

On 10/01/2021 at 10:47, HovelinHove said:

The Mail is a mixed bag in terms of reporting and those who never read it and use generalisations to smear all those who visit the site are very ignorant of not only the broad range of views but also its power. It is very popular in the UK because it is free. It is also one of the few sites that represents the center right viewpoint that has dominated UK politics pretty much forever. People here and on the Guardian seem to forget that outside of London and Brighton, most people are small c conservative and detest the BBC/Guardian type thinking. The Mail has writers who are dead center, and those who on the right, like Peter Hitchens. Their editor in chief is very much of the center. If you never visit the Mail, then you you will never understand what other people are thinking. There is lots of tabloid trash stories, but some reasonable analysis as well. It is the lower middle class yardstick of public opinion, just like the Sun/mirror are working class, and the Telegraph/Times/Guardian are middle class yardsticks. 

I look at most newspaper websites....subscribe to the Telegraph, but visit the BBC, Guardian and Mail. That way you get a better viewpoint. The comments sections are often the best bits, especially the Daily Telegraph, and I would be very surprised if senior Tory politicians didn’t have underlings reporting back on the most up liked comments on some articles. It is, as others have pointed out, a cheap way of doing focus groups.

 

Nice - it is though the second largest newspaper website in the UK and i did read the biggest newspaper website in the world... thanks to it's coverage of the celebrity nonsense. 

Great post