Lovely morning
Links first today again, due to a long sleep and a heavy workload.
Sunder Katwala at Liberal Conspiracy asks who the Mail thinks is British, and Sunny follows it up over at Pickled Politics.
What a mess. Last week, as you'll recall, the Mail's very own Melanie Phillips attempted to attack the BNP (while shadowing some of their arguments), and was turned on by commenters on the Mail's website. Was this an organised action by the BNP, as these things often are, or is that the way Mail readers really feel about these things? Who knows, but James Slack's latest atrocity against journalism should no doubt delight the far right and those supporters who were upset last week by what they probably saw as Melanie Phillips's glaring bleeding-heart liberalism.
People sometimes ask me why I get upset with the Mail. Well, here you go. This is the language of the extreme right. Not the ordinary right. Not New Labour. Not the Conservative Party. Maybe not even UKIP. This is much more extreme than that. And this has been written, not in the opinion section under a columnist's byline, where it can be written off as being part of a 'broad church' of opinion. No, this has been written by a journalist, supposedly as a news story. Yuck. I feel dirty having even read it.
Ben Six on whether Jack Straw is a sociopath or not. I'll stick my neck out and say yes, he strikes me as a bit like Richard III.
'Too much anger can kill you' says the Mail. It also says 'Cancer in a glass of wine'. Yes, you read that right. CANCER IN A GLASS OF WINE. Really? Really. Surely not, you're taking the piss? No, I'm not. Have a look for yourself. And check out the rest of the blog while you're there; I've only just found it.
Jack of Kent looks at the disturbing individuals trying to pretend that homeopathy can help people with AIDS in Tanzania.
Finally, Lenin takes apart Obama's TARP.
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February 26th, 2009 - 23:55
I hate the Daily Mail. My parents are decent people and they are not racist. Yet the other day my mother said “What will happen when Muslims take over the UK?” and my dad’s started going on about immigrants rather a lot (he never used to). One of their friends is going to vote BNP based on what she’s read in the Daily Mail. (Apparently she hates Muslims). It makes me want to explode!!!!
Looking at Slackjaw’s list of published articles it reads like a list of articles on the BNP site.
http://www.journalisted.com/james-slack?allarticles=yes
That throwaway line about the children and grandchildren of immigrants not being British has to be new low even by Slack’s standards. Does anyone know anything about this guy? Is he connected with the BNP in some way?