Category Archives: Pointless story

‘Recycling’ or how extreme capitalism works

June 26, 2011 – 10:42 am

Tweet One of the frequently recycled stories that appear on the Mail website that really bothers me is the one where person x wears item x of clothing for a second time. Sometimes this is referred to as a fashion ‘faux pas’ (one of the favourite phrases of Mail hacks), sometimes as recycling but it [...]

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Pierce Brosnan has OTHER things on his mind apart from his waistline!

October 2, 2010 – 11:52 am

Tweet Eric Pickles is not the only man on the Mail website being pointed at today: ‘Diet another day: Pierce Brosnan makes no secret of big belly as he piles on the pounds‘. The shame, the shame – he ‘makes no secret’ of it, when clearly he should be hiding until he gets rid of [...]

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‘Outrage’

July 27, 2010 – 12:59 pm

Tweet A favourite tabloid word, and rarely used in its proper context – for example, when over 24,000 people complained to the PCC about Jan Moir’s Gately article the word was not used by the Mail or any of the tabloid press. However, if the BBC has 7 complaints out of an audience of over [...]

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The Mail Obsession with Christine Bleakley

July 4, 2010 – 10:11 pm

Tweet Yesterday The Daily Mail Reporter scribbled a hatchet job on Christine Bleakley: ‘Ten shameless steps to stardom – the Christine ‘Look At Me’ Bleakley way‘. The author argued that Bleakley would take on any job – ‘no matter how low rent’ – in order to claw her way towards fame, whilst at the same [...]

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No, Really?

September 17, 2009 – 3:36 pm

Tweet Mailwatch have dedicated a thread to completely pointless stories that fill up the Daily Mail website and today I was particularly struck by this one: Brothers that share a ‘resemblance’, well, who would have thought it.

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