Tag Archives: immigration

Theresa May’s Littlejohn moment

October 4, 2011 – 9:50 pm

Tweet So Theresa May repeated the 2009 myth that an immigrant was allowed to stay in the UK because they owned a cat. Worryingly, her speech had – according to Left Foot Forward – been checked by no less than David Cameron, Nick Clegg, George Osborne and Danny Alexander. Oh dear. For the record (in case [...]

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1 in 25 adults buy the Daily Mail

June 22, 2011 – 11:22 pm

Tweet And every single one of them should be ashamed of themselves: This is a headline that is printed every other month by the Mail along with the Express, as if each time it is somehow shocking and new that children with different skin colours attend British schools. That national newspapers can regularly print stories [...]

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Daily Mail: the letters

April 14, 2011 – 9:42 pm

Tweet Today David Cameron made a speech about immigration designed to specifically generate glowing tabloid headlines and appeal to the readers who have been systematically lied to about immigration for years. Here are two letters printed in the Daily Mail – one yesterday, one today – that demonstrate the sort of person David Cameron is [...]

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Multiculturalism and the Monkeysphere

February 16, 2011 – 11:44 pm

Tweet The Monkeysphere is the group of people who each of us, using our monkeyish brains, are able to conceptualize as people. If the monkey scientists are monkey right, it’s physically impossible for this to be a number much larger than 150… we all have limits to our sphere of monkey concern. It’s the way [...]

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Shameful ‘journalism’

January 3, 2011 – 2:50 pm

Tweet Saw this headline on the Mail website today and immediately thought it sounded dodgy: ‘Bah humbug! Father Christmas banned at children’s centre… to respect faith of one Muslim family‘. Bad journalism is like a virus that is easily carried around the globe via the Internet. Searching for more information on the story led to [...]

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