Daily Mail Sparks Midsomer Murders Race War In Worlingham, Suffolk: A Golliwog In The Window
JENNA Mason has been arrested and charged with racially aggravated harassment’ for placing a golliwog in the window of her home. Her next door neighbour in Worlingham, Suffolk, is one Rosemarie O’Donnell. Mrs O’Donnell is black. Mrs Mason is white.
Before this latest episode the pair had been in dispute. Mrs Mason and her husband Terry want to erect stables on their land. Mrs O’Donnell and her husband Stephen are against it.
Says Stephen:
“It’s not a children’s toy. You can see it has buttons and other items on it. It was clearly deliberately placed on the window sill facing out of the window. I do not believe it was casually tossed up there. It has caused immense upset. You live in the countryside and you think you have got away from all this nonsense. I would much rather they went after me with a baseball bat rather than insulting my children and wife. We came to East Anglia because we thought it was beautiful, scenic and very safe with an extremely low level of crime.”
Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: Key Posts, News | Comments (12) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
THE Daily Mail’s words on drinking alcohol are more a conversation than actual reporting.
Last week the Mail’s Daniel Martin warned:
Couples who share a bottle of wine over dinner are putting their lives at risk, according to a report. The middle classes are unwittingly becoming ‘risky drinkers’ by regularly having wine with their evening meal, significantly increasing their susceptibility to conditions such as cancer and stroke… And because women’s alcohol tolerance is lower than men’s, they are at greater risk than their partner if they each drink half of a bottle of wine.
In short: if you drink you will get cancer. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 7th, September 2011 | In: Scare Stories | Comments (2) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Scare Story: Daily Mail Says British Unhealthiest In The World – Dead Belgians Disagree
THE Daily Mail’s Scare Story of the day is that “Britain’s middle aged are unhealthiest in the world“.
Odd, then, that the CIA and the World Bank says Britishers will live to an average 80 years. On the CIA’s league table of longevity the UK comes in at number 28 of 221 countries.
That makes us longer living – and it might be argued healthier – than people in lots of other countries.
Posted: 5th, September 2011 | In: Scare Stories | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
On Day Ian Redmond Is Buried Scary Daily Mail Says Great White Sharks Have The UK Surrounded
CAN Ian Redmond’s death be used to spread fear in the UK? Yes.
As you know, Mr Redmond died while on his honeymoon in the Seychelles. He was buried in Lancashire today. (We have photos but does anyone need to see them?) The tabloids have feasted off the story.
The death of man thousands of miles from home is tragic but lacks immediacy. Then news arives that a man has been killed by sharks while swimming off what the Mail terms “paradise island” – that’s Fantome Island well off the coast of Queensland, Australia.
Wikipedia describes paradise thus:
A leprosarium was established on the island in 1927. Upon its closure in 1974,[2] it was purged by fire. The island is the site of 200 graves. The island was also a mission under the influence of Franciscan Missionaries of Mary.
Posted: 30th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
THE prospect of violence at the Notting Hill Carnival is exciting the Daily Mail to such a degree that it’s report on the first day’s festivities open thus:
The Notting Hill Carnival got off to a peaceful start today as Scotland Yard faces its biggest public order test since the London riots.
So says the wonderfully named Mail writer Chris Slack. His words appear below the headline:
Notting Hill carnival gets off to peaceful start despite ‘disruption chatter’ on social networks
Posted: 28th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, News | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Says Saboteur Swapped Drugs In Nurofen Plus – Offers No Proof
THE Daily Mail reports that a ‘Saboteur‘ has placed “up to 500,000 powerful anti-psychotic drugs in packets of Nurofen Plus sold in the UK“.
The headline declares:
‘Saboteur’ puts up to 500,000 powerful anti-psychotic drugs in packets of Nurofen Plus sold in the UK
Only, that fact might not be a fact:
A drugs recall was under way tonight after it emerged that thousands of anti-psychotic tablets could have been deliberately placed in packets of Nurofen Plus.
Posted: 25th, August 2011 | In: Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Richard Littlejohn’s 954 Words On Peter Mandelson’s House: How Journalism Works
HOW tabloid journalism works: Daily Mail hack Richard Littlejohn has a column to fill. What can he possibly write about? Well, Peter Mandelson has bought a house in London.
What was I saying recently about missing Peter Mandelson? His assorted scrapes, scambolis and scandals have provided a rich seam of material over the years. Many have been the mornings I’ve sat here scratching my head and staring at a blank wordface, only for Mandelson to ride to the rescue.
When Labour was turfed out of office, my jubilation was tinged with just a little sadness over the fact that I wouldn’t have Mandy to kick around any more. I needn’t have worried. As I tried desperately to avoid having to write about Libya, along came exciting news of Mandelson’s ambitious property portfolio.
Posted: 23rd, August 2011 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail: Santa Claus Has Cancer
CAN flying to America give you cancer?
The Daily Mail wonders:
Can a change in solar activity increase the risk of cancer for frequent flyers to the U.S.?
Frequent flyers to China can breathe easy. Says the paper:
Dramatic changes in solar activity could raise the risk of cancerous damage to the cells of those on board planes flying over the Poles, claims professor of space environment physics Mike Lockwood.
Does a flight from London to New York go over the South or North Poles? And if it does, might the pilot be lost? Forget cancer – the polar bears and killer penguins want your blood. Unless you’re Santa Claus, in which case you need to see a doctor…fast! (And get Rudolph’s nose seen to – that boil looks nasty; it’s most likely cancerous.)
Says Professor Lockwood, who details his warning in the journal Geophysical Research Letters:
“I am not being alarmist.”
But…
Other things that five you cancer
Posted: 18th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Kills Off IstyOsty – Are There Other Ways To Read The Mail And Not Encourage It?
GOODBYE IstyOsty, you were the site that enabled people to read the Daily Mail without having to actually read the Daily Mail. The Mail was not too keen to someone using its work without even a link back to its own site.
Posted: 17th, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Manchester City Sign Wesley Sneijder – And So Do Manchester United
WILL Manchester United sign Wesley Sneijder, the diminutive Hollander from Inter Milan? The Daily Mail considers the facts:
July 14: “Manchester United hope to complete the £35million transfer of Wesley Sneijder after agreeing terms of around £190,000 a week with the Inter Milan midfielder”
Posted: 11th, August 2011 | In: Sports | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tottenham Riots: Daily Mail Says Immolating Twitter Worshippers Fuelled Violence
THE Daily Mail’s caption writers are having a great time with the Tottenham riot triggered by the police’s (unlawful?) killing of Mark Duggan. Having dubbed the aggro the “Twitter Riot“, the image of a burning double-decker bus is captioned: “a double-decker bus is immolated.”
Immolated? As in to kill or offer as a sacrifice, especially by fire. Synonyms for immolate are sacrifice and offer.
Posted: 8th, August 2011 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Tottenham Riot: Twitter Readers Fear Daily Mail Fanned Violence (Photos)
THE Daily Mail says the rioting that followed Mark Duggan’s death in Tottenham (a man the paper calls a “gangster”) was sparked by Twitter…maybe. One caption to a photo of the car-b-cue calls it ‘Twitter Riot‘ (see left). The paper yells:
Fears that violence was fanned by Twitter as picture of burning police car was re-tweeted more than 100 times
Forget guns and a sense of estrangement from power – the real menace is Twitter.
Posted: 7th, August 2011 | In: Key Posts, News | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
If You Crave Curry You’ve Probably Got Parkinson’s Disease (Says Daily Mail)
SCARE Story of the Day comes to use via the pages of the Daily Mail. Anna Hodgekiss hears the story of 59-year-old Elsie Campbell, “whose breast cancer was detected after she developed an unusual appetite for salad.”
If you like salad you might well have cancer?
The mother-of-two was eating four lettuces a day, prompting her husband Jim, a research scientist, to investigate. He worked out that lettuce contains a natural chemical called sulforaphane, which can attack cancer cells and which breast cancer sufferers often lack. He correctly guessed his wife’s addiction meant she was suffering from the disease.
Posted: 3rd, August 2011 | In: Scare Stories | Comments (4) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Hack David Gerges’ Amazing Report On Liverpool V Valarenga
THE MATCH report of the season so far award goes to the Daily Mail’s David Gerges for his report on on Liverpool’s friendly with Valarenga.
“However, the visitors were left stunned after conceding two goals in four minutes. First, Strand beat the returning Reina from close range before Ogude capitalised on a loose ball to fire past Liverpool’s stopper.”
That ball was loose – and stationary. Fegor Ogude scored a penalty.
Posted: 3rd, August 2011 | In: Sports | Comment (1) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Twitter And Facebook Toddlers Are Future Daily Mail Writers And BBC Experts
BYLINE writers, nodding heads, football show experts, Question Time panelists, MPs and anyone who insists on using a title listen up:
Facebook and Twitter have created a generation obsessed with themselves, who have short attention spans and a childlike desire for constant feedback on their lives, a top scientist believes. Repeated exposure to social networking sites leaves users with an ‘identity crisis’, wanting attention in the manner of a toddler saying: ‘Look at me, Mummy, I’ve done this.’
Posted: 1st, August 2011 | In: Technology | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Pippa Middleton’s ‘Like A Sister’ To Kate Middleton Reveals Daily Mail: Photos
PIPPA Middleton’s school photos are in the Daily Mail. How did these few pictures come to be published? Well:
The pictures were taken by Kevin Allford, who was housemaster to Pippa and Kate at the £13,000-a-year preparatory school in the Nineties.
Mr Allford, who now lives in Carmarthen, said: ‘Pippa was like her sister…”
Posted: 28th, July 2011 | In: Royal Family | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
The Daily Mail’s List Of Things That Give You Cancer: From A To Z
SCARE Stories in the Daily Mail – here’s a list of things that give you cancer:Posted: 27th, July 2011 | In: Key Posts, Scare Stories | Comments (11) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Turns Reading ‘Footballers Gang Rape’ Into A Game
WHEN in March 2011, six men were jailed for raping two 12-year-old girls in Reading, they were identified first and foremost as footballers.
The guilty, who admitted rape, were:
Courtney Amos,19, Ashley Charles, 20, Dennis De Sousa, 18, Jahson Downes, 20, Jahvon Edwards, 19, and Luke Farrugia, 21.
Now, the six have been freed on appeal. The Mail’s Paul Bracchi writes beneath the headline:
Raped at 12 by a gang of footballers – but judges say it’s the victims’ fault and frees them. Now one of the victims talks about the sickening events of that night.
Posted: 23rd, July 2011 | In: News | Comments (3) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Impoverished Daily Mail Hack Liz Jones Buys New Face For £13,145: Dogs Are Delighted
LIZ Jones, the Daily Mail hijack who was not murdered in Bristol, has had a facelift. It cost £13,145. You might have read about in that in the Daily Mail on June 17.
You can also read this gem from the impoverished hack, as she wrote way, way back in February 2011.
The day before my brother’s funeral, I get a visit from the taxman… It’s freezing because the Aga has broken. He writes down a figure. I feel sick when he shows it to me… Perhaps I can sell my car, but it has 100,000 miles on the clock… I have gone from living in a Georgian house with a convertible, to being the sort of person who can’t afford to turn on the heating, with a car people think is scrap metal. It doesn’t really get any worse than this, does it?
Posted: 23rd, June 2011 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Wonders If Half Of Britons Are German Enough
THE Daily Mail uses its front page to tell readers that it is “TIME TO EMBRACE YOUR INNER JERRY”.
You see, half of all Britishers have some “German blood” (in their veins; not on their shoes).
Posted: 22nd, June 2011 | In: News | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
IN Terry Pratchett: Choosing to Die, Peter Smedley, 71, committed assisted suicide. He had motor neurone disease. He had gone to Switzerland to die at an euthanasia clinic.
The Daily Mail sees its chance to hit the BBC. It talks of hundreds of complaints. Complaints are the barometer of righteousness. The more complains, the more wrong the thing is and the more demanding of more outrage.
The money quote soon comes:
Nola Leach, chief executive of CARE, said: ‘I rather thought that we had moved on from the days when people gathered in crowds to watch other people die.
Posted: 14th, June 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comments (14) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
War On Fat: Daily Mail Says Welsh People Are Putting Chips In Milk Bottles
DID you know that a six your old had stroke brought on by “the obesity epidemic fuelled by parents feeding children pureed junk food“. (And that’s not the best quote – read on for the best Quote Of The Year).
The busy “Daily Mail Reporter” has facts:
An epidemic of obesity is leading to babies being treated in hospital for weight problems – and children as young as six are suffering strokes.
And:
Some parents encourage children to eat junk food, seeing a family excursion to a pizza parlour or hamburger restaurant as a treat.
A hamburger is treat? Well, yes. That’s good isn’t it?
Posted: 12th, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
News Presenter Leaks Daily Mail’s Entire News Agenda On Live TV
NEWS presenter sums up / leaks entire Daily Mail news editorial for next decade:
Posted: 12th, June 2011 | In: Anorak TV | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Pippa Middleton Goes Courting In Paris: Photos
WILL bikini-clad, topless stunna Pippa Middleton embrace the celebrity foisted on her by big sister Kate’s marriage to the future King?
Well, for the second time in a week, Pippa’s on the front page of the Daily Mail.
The headline thunders:
“PIPPA’S PARIS ‘DATE’ WITH MR PEUGEOT”
Mr Peugeot sounds a bit downmarket for out Pippa? Was Mr Leyland-Daf busy? Was young Master Lada at the shops?
Posted: 1st, June 2011 | In: Key Posts, Royal Family | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Daily Mail Health Scare Tuesday: Brain-Shrinking Cakes And Death By Bread
IT’S health Tuesday in the Daily Mail - and that means lots of scary news:
“IT COULD BE WORSE THAN LAST TIME” – Michael Hanson on the latest Icelandic volcano
“This cake won’t just make you fat. It could also shrink your brain” – the cup cake cometh!!
Posted: 25th, May 2011 | In: Scare Stories | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
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