Daily Archives: September 25, 2011

Winterval 2011

September 25, 2011 – 10:49 pm

Well, it has started: Winterval season is upon us. In fact, it has been with us all year round thanks to the trusty ramblings of right-wing columnists only to happy to trot out the same lies. As you may know last year I spent a bit of time researching the ‘Winterval’ myth – that councils [...]

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Did this happen?

September 25, 2011 – 10:01 pm

The Daily Mail have picked up on a story that has been doing the rounds since the 16th September this year: ‘Axe murderer who hacked three people to death is allowed out of prison… for a course on chopping down trees’. The article is fairly standard fare for the Mail website, it is basically copied [...]

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Peter Hitchens: Never knowingly out-crazied

September 25, 2011 – 4:31 pm

It must be tough for the more established Daily Mail / Mail on Sunday stable of writers to feel special now that Rightminds has opened up the Mail website to huge torrents of baffling lunacy. They must look fondly back to the good old days when they knew their own brand of rabid, ignorant ramblings [...]

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Mail on Sunday becomes Daily Star

September 25, 2011 – 10:49 am

This has already been covered by Tabloid Watch, but it’s worth covering here just so you don’t miss out on the full splendour of the Mail on Sunday’s front page today: The article is also currently the leading story on the Mail website as well: The article starts with some common claims: The BBC has [...]

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