Category Archives: PC Gone Mad

There’s Always One

June 11, 2010 – 12:20 pm

Last night on Twitter I joked that someone might accuse Sir Alan’s Choice of Arjun Rajyagor as the winner of Junior Apprentice as ‘PC gone mad’, and the Daily Mail website hasn’t let me down: It is good to see this accusation well in the red, and the fact that he is pretty much alone [...]

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Not Really ‘Shameful’

June 10, 2010 – 9:21 pm

You can learn an awful lot about the opinion of the Daily Mail by its use of inverted commas in headlines. Inverted commas can mean a number of things but normally they mean that the the text contained within them is untrue, or that it is laughable. So, what can you make of this headline: [...]

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Feral Youth is ‘a loveable tearaway’ claims Daily Mail

February 10, 2010 – 11:18 am

Reading the Daily Mail you often get the feeling that you’ve seen a certain story before, often at least once. Today was no different when I came across a story about Dennis the Menace being made less menacing thanks to the ‘PC brigade’: ‘That new Dennis is a softy‘ (link is to online article, title [...]

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You Leave Your Rights at the Door, but not your Beliefs

February 1, 2010 – 11:47 am

David Cameron has suggested that ‘the moment a burglar steps over your threshold… I think they leave their human rights outside’. The Daily Mail published an article on this that has so far attracted over 338 comments, of which the majority (and best rated) are people saying it is about time we’re allowed Carte Blanche [...]

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Allison Pearson has no brain

December 16, 2009 – 12:44 pm

I really am starting to think that to be a Daily Mail columnist you have to have an almost complete lobotomy. During the procedure almost your entire brain is removed leaving just the ability to stab your fingers at a keyboard and generate the ‘outrage’ emotion that blindly fuels any argument you’re putting forward. Today’s [...]

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