I haven’t had time to post much recently as I’ve been busy with a project that should be finished at some point this week/end. I’m perhaps also running out of patience with a media that will repeat any rubbish as long as it pushes a few buttons or causes a bit of controversy. If it’s […]
The Daily Mail headline: ‘Is wi-fi radiation killing off trees? Study blames computer signals for dying leaves‘. The claims made at the start of the article: As if our magnificent trees didn’t have enough problems, they’re now being threatened by our emails… Now researchers say radiation from wi-fi networks that enable our burgeoning online communications […]
So, the Irish economy is going to be supported by billions of pounds of loan from a central EU pot, along with around £7bn directly from the British government. At this point Football365′s Mediawatch has drawn attention to this gem of an article written by George Osborne for the Times in 2006: A generation ago, […]
The Daily Mail has claimed this in a headline today: ‘Was it a training exercise? Loch Lomond forest blast is linked to Al Qaeda‘, which immediately begs the question: who has made this ‘link’? The answer, unsurprisingly is they have. Calum Murrray, Strathclyde Police Chief Superintendent, has stated clearly that: At the moment it would […]
Another council has become the victim of Daily Mail lies: ‘Fury as council spends £900,000 on refurbishing a travellers’ site‘. The article claims that: A council came under fire today over plans to spend nearly £900,000 refurbishing a travellers’ site. Conservative-controlled Cambridgeshire County Council owns Blackwell Farm, a 15 plot site near Milton, which is […]
So, the Guardian reports today that the Daily Mail website is ‘most popular newspaper website in the UK, with nearly 18 million readers a month, and is second only to the New York Times worldwide’. This is not really a surprise, just more evidence that a huge amount of people enjoy mindless rubbish. Whenever I […]
I listened to Iain Duncan Smith’s interview on Radio 4 this morning when he was introducing his ideas about reforming welfare. He made the point that what he wanted to change was the situation where people are disadvantaged by taking a job, in that they lose so many benefits that work forces them into greater […]
If your front garden was so overgrown that the Royal Mail refused to deliver your Mail would you: A – tidy your garden, pruning the overgrown bush and removing the branch blocking your front door; or B – complain to the Royal Mail and run to the Mail screaming ‘It’s health and safety gone mad’. […]
I know it is not news to anyone that the Daily Mail is staggeringly hypocritical, but sometimes it is just worth repeating because they do something like this: Phil Woolas is a deeply unpleasant man who not content with authorising the forceful deportation of children during his time as Immigration Minister also decided to run […]
The Daily Mail is very pleased with themselves today, having acquired some pictures of the ‘The mother aged 10 who had baby with her 13-year-old cousin’. The Daily Mail borrows its imperialist outlook and moral backwardness from the Victorian era so it is only right that they use the Victorian freakshow as a business model […]