I’m struggling to avoid writing about the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand affair, but it has to be said that the Daily Mail really do take the biscuit on this one. In it, Georgina Baillie calls for Brand and Ross to be sacked for leaving her grandfather ‘utterly horrified and disgusted’ after ringing him up… Continue reading The Daily Mail: the paper for pervs
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A tale of three newspapers
I’m on the night shift tonight – got to file an article for Comment is Free at 7am. The big picture is still unclear at the mo so I thought I’d offer my words of wisdom about the London election. I’ve spent the past month tracking mentions of Boris, Ken and Paddick on Twitter. What… Continue reading A tale of three newspapers
Ham: Are You High?
Readers may recall me mocking the Ham and High a couple of years ago for condemning the Labour party’s “flying pigs” advert on the grounds of anti-semitism. Words therefore fail to learn that the same paper has allowed the BNP to take out paid advertising on their pages. The paper appears to have confused the… Continue reading Ham: Are You High?