The Daily Mail: turning tragedy into bigotry
- January 28, 2012
- by
- Matt
I know I’ve written on this subject before, but it needs to be repeated again and again: the Daily Mail is a toxic pool of xenophobia, racism and rancid little-Englandism, and the fact that it attracts six million readers every week is a huge indictment of the British newspaper-reading public.
Today Paul Dacre’s ghastly rag has demonstrated once again that are no depths that it will leave unexplored, with Sue Reid’s pseudo-investigation into the tragic case of Alisa Dmitijeva, the Latvian teenager whose remains were found in the Queen’s estate at Sandringham on New Year’s...
Foreign scroungers take our benefits
- January 20, 2012
- by
- Matt
It doesn’t stop, and in those dank and rancid corners of the national press that are forever England, it never will. Today the rightwing broadsheets and tabloids are venting on full spleen, spraying indignant flecks of bile at a report from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) which claims that 370,000 foreign-born...
Death on the Greek borders
- January 18, 2012
- by
- Matt
International attention is once again focussed on Greece as EU and IMF officials gather in Athens to work out a deal to prevent a potential debt default and a Greek exit from the eurozone, and protesters once again take to the streets. EU/IMF ‘reforms’ have already had a disastrous impact on large swathes...
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