Gypsy MPs and condom harmonisation: the 10 best right-wing EU scare stories
A compendium of right-wing scare stories about the EU.
Daily Mail
The man who wasn’t actually arrested for joking about Nelson Mandela
In a shocking disregard for freedom of expression, Neil Phillips from Rugeley, Staffordshire, was arrested last week after he made tasteless jokes about Nelson Mandela on the internet. Or was he?
Scientists take Mail on Sunday to task over ‘completely incorrect’ climate claims
Dr Roz Pidcock of the Carbon Brief has done an exellent job of fisking the Mail on Sunday’s latest piece of climate change denial.
Christians in Britain are not persecuted, but they are around the world
The former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has criticised western Christians who claim they are persecuted in their own country.
Daily Mail columnist says Rihanna’s fashion sense ‘invites rape’
We’ve already written about the Daily Mail once today. But woe betide me for not expecting to find two items to pull them up on in a single day.
This time it’s a tad more serious, however. In a spiteful article about Rihanna, Mail columnist Liz Jones writes that the pop star is a “toxic role model” for young fans because she glories in “drugs, guns and sleaze”.
It’s no good drawing a correlation between green policies and rising bills. The figures don’t back it up
If Labour is to provide the genuine green alternative to the Tory luddites, they must highlight the missed economic opportunity of a low-carbon economy, using the top economic voices in the party. Lower and more stable bills help our companies compete, while low-carbon infrastructure itself is a key growth area in jobs and investment.
Social media martyrdom: lessons from the Paris Brown debacle
Yesterday Paris Brown, the country’s first Youth Crime Commissioner, resigned from her post thanks to the Mail’s digging up of ill-advised tweets she posted several years ago. A sad, but perhaps inevitable end to what was the opportunity of a lifetime for the young teenager from Kent.
Is it any wonder, with our news media, that Paris Brown has opinions like this?
Ah, the Daily Mail. One of Britain’s most popular and well read newspapers which in the past has seen fit to victimise those on benefits, transsexuals, homosexuals, asylum seekers, migrants and many more, now finds itself spitting venom at someone who isn’t even legally an adult.
LFF’s James Bloodworth discusses welfare and the Philpott family on BBC News
Left Foot Forward’s James Bloodworth discusses the welfare and the Philpott family on BBC News alongside Harriet Sergeant.
The Daily Mail: How the poor die and how the rich die
The Daily Mail’s reaction today to the tragedy of Michael Philpott’s multiple manslaughter of his six children is not only quite disgusting, but it also shows the paper’s double standards: