It makes you proud
Please can we get the new improved caring sharing Alastair Campbell on the telly tonight to explain his extraordinarily nasty tirades against everyone in the world in the aftermath of the Hutton Report? In the light of new evidence, it seems he knew all along that there were grave concerns about the 'sexing-up' of the dodgy dossier. How strange he's not mentioned that all along. If only the journalist who'd broken the story in the first place had been more skilful than Andrew Gilligan, a better case would have been made at the time. Ah well.
Another thing to make you proud to be British: Binyam Mohamed's torture. For now we just have the weasel words of "Ooh, we don't believe in torture, must've been a mistake or something" and the hope that something else will knock it off the headlines. The US whisperers, meanwhile, say Mohamed has a history of making unsubstantiated claims. That reminds me of something... does it remind you of something? Calling Dr David Kelly "a Walter Mitty figure"...? Trying to anonymously discredit these people from the sidelines?
In other patriotism news, David Semple gets harangued by a nutcase over St George's Day. Hey, it's not long to go now until we get the first sighting of "Now we BAN St George's Day for fear of upsetting MUSLIMS" stories in the tabloids. Can't wait! Keep em peeled for those.
Alone in the Dark examines the Mail's attacks on Max Mosley and how Stephen Glover glosses over the rather obvious comparison between Max and Jonathan Harmsworth, owner of the Daily Mail, whose own father was a big fan of Hitler too. There are also rather chilling comparisons between the facist writings of Mosley and the modern-day Mail's outpourings.
And finally, Jaime looks at how the Cadbury's Caramel Bunny has been transformed for the Nuts and Zoo generation.
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March 13th, 2009 - 10:14
We seem to have new seasonal markers. Stories about banning St George’s Day heralds the arrival of Spring and stories about banning Christmas points to the arrival of Autumn.
March 13th, 2009 - 10:50
Wasn’t it Harmsworth’s Grandfather that was the Hitler fan?
March 13th, 2009 - 11:58
Think you may be right, JW.
March 13th, 2009 - 12:59
And in cae you’ve not noticed the Mail switched today from immigration to asylum seakers, a subtly different beast I’ll grant but nevertheless another annual indication that spring is here and summer is not far off.
March 13th, 2009 - 13:25
With regards to your first paragraph, I’ve always wondered, given the fact that Gilligan’s brainfart on Radio 4 successfully hurt both the government (who deserved it), and the BBC (who didn’t), and given that he is now a nakedly partisan Tory hack working for Associated News, whether his brainfart was deliberate or not.
The conspiracy-loving nerd in me would love this to have been a double-cross with Dacre’s fingerprints on it from the beginning, but at the same time I doubt in Dacre’s position I’d have chosen Gilligan as the vector.