Steve Bell is on top form in today's Guardian, and his latest cartoon requires no further comment from me.
Steve Bell is on top form in today’s Guardian, and his latest cartoon requires no further comment from me.
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20 Responses to “The Daily Mail: ‘Are we sorry we backed the Nazis?’”
Alec
Bell is most definitely not doing that. Doing that would involve referring to, say, contemporary inclusion of adolescent girls on Daily Mail pages. This has zero relevance to the topic being discussed and serves only as a foil to shut down the outrageous abuse of press power… daring to criticize a Labour grandee in ways he and others were cock-a-hoop when they thought they were going to out a Tory grandee as a child abuser (the difference being, that was utterly false and the charges here are undeniably accurate).
Atonement only can be offered by those who actually committed the deed. The Daily Mail has nothing to atone for regarding their 1930s editorial position, any more than the likes of the Peace Pledge Union for their newsletter’s more-than-objectively pro-Nazi position at the same time. It has gone through several changes of ownership and editorial control.
(Bringing-up Rothermere and Hitler was tendentious even when it ran on Ralph Miliband. Now, bringing-up their more recent praise of Marine le Pen, and Dacre’s father who worked out the Second World War on the theatre front was another matter.)
And the tasteless audacity of chortling about being buggered.
As for Harman, she was the organization’s legal officer… she should know all about collective responsibility from her Cabinet days. For the record I don’t think she was thinking about it too hard. Her type had other things on her mind… using it as a career move within Labour Party structures. Well, that works both
ways. If they want to take the kudos of holding a certain trendy position, they damn well should take the flack when it goes pear shaped.
~alec
blarg1987
It is relevent as it is pointing out the Daily Mail can say and do what it wants and does nto need to apologise for anything (which is relevent as my comment above).
“Atonement only can be offered by those who actually committed the deed.”
Again the Daily Mail has commited the deed, with many recent articles depiciting people undert the age of sexual consent in a sexually suggestive manner, this is something it shuld apologise for,
“As for Harman, she was the organization’s legal officer… she should know
all about collective responsibility from her Cabinet days.”
She was a legal officer before she becomae a cabinet minister, if you are referring that she should take collective responsibility now, then by that logic should Kenn Clark, Lord Tebbit, Lord Haseltine all take collective responsibility for being in the cabinet that allowed a rumoured pedophile (which now is shown to be an actual pedophile) to share chrismas with the then sitting PM, the same lofgic applies to both cases.
Alec
Even Patricia Hewitt disagrees with you!
Sniveling cowards, the lot of them.
~alec
Blarg1987
She isn’t as she is taking personal responsbility for her part in the whole affair. Note she defended Harman in the article different from collective responsliability you alluded to earlier. She did not say other people should apologise so my point is still valid.
guest
“The DM, for instance, believes that the rape packs targeting vulnerable girls in large English cities are filth.”
And so they are, but the hypocritical DM also encourages them with its titillating pictures of young girls in scanty clothes.