Steve Crook

Private Eye calls it the Daily Hate Mail. That seems quite appropriate

Steve

CaptainWaggett

At work we usually call it Die Sturmer

smiffy

Blimey, it sounds like any office in America Silverwhistle

I May be getting older ,but I refuse to grow up

PaulPlowman

There's one guy at work, who I generally get on with, but he sometimes refers to "niggers" and "pakis".

He reads the Daily Mail, coincidentally enough.

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Moor Larkin

Your mate might but you obviously don't.

The Mail is almost painfully *not* racist. It alone in Fleet Street mounted a long and sometimes tedious search for justice on behalf of the family of Stephen Lawrence, long after the Law and every other 'paper had lost interest.

The Mail is 'anti-multiculturalism', but that is a very different thing. Some might want to see it as the *same* thing, but that doesn't make it so.

The Mail thinks that the world would be an ideal place if it was Britain in about 1955, but with the people having a little more money in their pockets. Back then the government could be trusted, there was no racism - we were actively inviting our fellow citizens of the empire to come and live among us. Men and women lived together in perfect harmony. Dad worked at a worthwhile job,whilst Mum baked the best cakes on the street. Their neighbours kept an eye out for their kids, who were happily playing hopscotch on the street, after a good day at school, learning things that would enable them to take their place in the bright, shiny future. The neighbourhood bobby clipped the ear of any passing tough, and a puff on his whistle was enough to make even the most hardened criminal hold his hands out and say, it's a fair cop.

Racism and many other things began in the 1960's. The Mail wishes that the Sixties had never happened (still less, 1956!).

Talk to your mate if you're bothered about his racism. The Mail gives a voice to those who hanker after a lost past. Reading about it gives people a voice to listen to, that soothes their troubled soul. Like reading a nostalgic book.

When they go to the nearest shopping-mall in their shiny new car to buy their nice new plasma-TV, made by some factory fodder in India or China, they soon forget about it and get on with living in 2008, in their own private bubble, fearing they might have to go back to the Britain of 1955 as it probably really was!

CaptainWaggett

The Stephen Lawrence campaign was admirable but many have thought that it was less about anti-racism than the fact that the editor happened to know the Lawrence family (Mr L was his decorator). The Mail does have a tendency to give the most negative spin to any story involving immigration.

stevie boy

Just to say that I picked up my dvd today Above us the Waves, the lady at Tesco has it ready for me now.

batman

Lucky old you .... all I ever get from Tesco is a sandwich!

"Boom boom a baby .... Banham Zoo .... Banana pants! Hahahaha"

maturin

There's no justice in the world.
My sister - a Daily Mail reader - sends me regular reports on the state of the Country, and I've been on the receiving end of Mail cuttings on leather-clad Kosovans and Blair PC-isms (which I politely ignore or chuckle over) for years. Now when I have a chance to get something for my brotherly love and patience, I find that I have all the films on the list.



Richard

Whoa! Aces High - don't have that. I'm suddenly feeling all sibling-esque

Marky B

I know someone who is a self confessed rascist. He reads the Daily Mirror - so your point is?
Ta Ta
Marky B

I am special. The heavens always open for me.

Steve Crook

He's reading the wrong paper
(or maybe not)

Steve

Steve Crook

As long as that's not the only way you get an impression of the old country. It is useful to be aware of what is feeding the opinions of some people but some ex-pats have been on here complaining about the state of Britain and we discover that the Daily Hate Mail has been their only source of information and they think we're all like that

Steve

Moor Larkin

Or maybe they watch the ITV news, which seemed to have a team of news-cameras waiting, poised, to make famous some French old bag, who couldn't find her old bag, in Terminal 5............

I think it's all a Green Conspiracy to reduce the number of aeroplanes taking off myself.

maturin

Hi Steve
Well if I were daring or foolish enough to venture an opinion on post-Maggie UK ( I last lived there in '79 ) I'd have to gather data across the social and political spectrum, from the Mail and the Independent etc, as well as Most Haunted and Grange Hill series 31.
I'm not sure I'd choose this forum to air opinions, except that here I'd be pretty sure of a polite hearing as long as I didn't assume that, because we all love Brit films, we espouse similar political or religious beliefs.
I've just remembered that my sister sent me Brief Encounter/Ipcress File from a Mail DVD some years ago, so I'd better shut up!

Harleybloke

.....You couldn't hear it, if they were shooting at me with howitzers!