Coogan: “If the Daily Mail went to the wall tomorrow I’d be delighted”
Steve Coogan savaged the feral, gutter press on Newsnight last night – reserving his greatest scorn for the Daily Mail and the paper’s editor Paul Dacre.
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Exposed: The Mail-inspired Dispatches hatchet job on Blair
Tonight’s Dispatches on Channel Four alleging financial impropriety against Tony Blair is a regurgitation of discredited Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday stories.
The Daily Mail’s poisonous lies must be fought by all trade unionists
Trade union official Rick Coyle writes about how the poisonous Daily Mail, in a story on him, inserted false quotes, using it to suit their political agenda.
Ex-Tory peer’s Pakistani/Bangladeshi smear ignores the evidence
Ex-Tory peer Baroness Flather’s assertion that Bangladeshi and Pakistani families have more children to chase benefits is baseless in evidence, reports Daniel Elton.
Sun and Mail debt scare story obscures the truth
Will Straw looks at today’s Sun and Mail scare stories about debt – and reveals the truth.
Express and Mail fail the migration stats test
The ONS Quarterly Migration Report yesterday gave rise to media headlines about a big rise in immigration – even though immigration had hardly risen at all.
Daily Mail cherry picks data to bash life-saving speed cameras
The Daily Mail’s battle against life-saving technology and defence of unnaccountable law-breaking continued today with a blast at speed cameras that ignores the evidence.
Iain Duncan Smith is not “daring to tell the truth” about migrant workers
Iain Duncan-Smith’s ‘bravery’ on immigration may have played well on the Daily Mail, but it ignored several inconvenient facts.
Hurrah for the climate deniers: How the Daily Mail swallowed enviroscepticism whole
Tim Holmes reports on the latest Daily Mail scaremongering and misrepresentation of the climate change debate.
BA/Unite resolution shows civilised negotiation has worked
Len McCluskey, general secretary of Unite, on the successful resolution of the British Airways strike dispute.