Category Archives: Rightminds

Was 2011 the year that shame died?

December 30, 2011 – 11:39 am

Tweet Dominic Sandbrook today claims in the Daily Mail website’s ‘RightMinds’ section that ’2011 was the year that shame died’. His reasons for believing this to be true are: the London riots; riots across Europe as austerity took hold; Liam Fox clinging to his job; Sally Bercow entering TV’s Big Brother; two England captains (John [...]

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Steve Doughty: Dear black footballers…

October 25, 2011 – 9:10 pm

Tweet Toughen up you big girls! Why are you whingeing about a bit of (alleged) racial abuse on the pitch? You do realise black players 20 years ago had it much worse 20 don’t you? As for this whole ‘kick racism out of football’ malarky it’s getting dead boring. I paraphrase, but here are a [...]

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Kelvin MacKenzie on Dale Farm

October 22, 2011 – 1:24 pm

Tweet Last week Kelvin MacKenzie joked about reporting himself to the Press Complaints Commission for being ‘anti-gypsy‘ after he published his idea of a gypsy flag (a photo of some fly-tipping). This week he finds room for a joke about Dale Farm: Forty travellers from Dale Farm arrive at the Pearly Gates in their caravans. [...]

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Peter Hitchens: Never knowingly out-crazied

September 25, 2011 – 4:31 pm

Tweet 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 [...]

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‘The sick internet craze of “trolling””

September 24, 2011 – 1:09 pm

Tweet The Daily Mail has today published a ‘Special investigation’ (I think this term might simply mean ‘not copied and pasted from news agency’) ‘into the distress of grieving families caused by the sick internet craze of “trolling”‘. Elsewhere, the Daily Mail website has collected its own ‘trolls’ and publishing a column for them today [...]

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