Monthly Archives: August 2011

Littlejohn’s Research (part 1,079)

August 26, 2011 – 11:49 am

It’s been a while since New Labour were in power but Richard Littlejohn is still repeating the same tired old columns about them – indeed, his two columns this week feature the same details about Peter Mandelson buying a house – the second one another variation of his favourite ‘made-up-radio-show-phone-in’ sketch. I’ve now become just [...]

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Littlejohn’s ‘Silly Season’

August 23, 2011 – 8:43 pm

The standards expected of a Daily Mail columnist are so low that Richard Littlejohn can freely admit that he is an utterly lazy and repetitive writer – in fact he spends a substantial number of words just pointing this out. I can’t help but find it odd that Littlejohn’s readers don’t get just a little [...]

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Simon Heffer joins the Daily Mail

August 17, 2011 – 8:10 pm

His first effort: ‘Rise of the Fourth Reich, how Germany is using the financial crisis to conquer Europe’ [no istyosty.com, so no link, but I assure you it is a genuine headline). I think he’ll fit in just fine.

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Daily Mail still stealing online content

August 17, 2011 – 10:28 am

So, yesterday the Daily Mail shuts down istyosty.com for copyright infringement whilst claiming that they were entitled to recover all of the - in the words of the lawyers representing Associated Newspapers - ’ill-gotten profits’ made by istyosty.com as a result of caching Mail Online articles. As usual, the Daily Mail is being deeply hypocritical and relying – once [...]

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Daily Mail lawyers strike again

August 16, 2011 – 10:06 pm

After my own issues with the lawyers of the Daily Mail a while back (see here and here for details) they have now been in touch with the excellent istyosty.com and have essentially managed to shut them down. In a letter which you can read on the istyosty.com website the webmaster is told that: Your [...]

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