Was their Miliband joke more or less offensive than Russell Brand's about Andrew Sachs' grand daughter?

Funny old world, innit?

What joke? You mean the article? Less offensive, in that it was an interpretation, whereas the Brand/Ross call was just infantile and completely gratuitous. Neither was pleasant.

The "grave" gag/pun was pretty offensive.

JK2006 wrote:
The "grave" gag/pun was pretty offensive.

Oh that. Yes, it was. It wasn't seeking Ed out directly, though. That's what tips it.

The Newspaper That Hates Britain.

it's been an illuminating exercise and one that appears to have backfired spectacularly.

Giving Ed a voice and then going in again for the throat by madly comparing him in anyway with Margaret Thatcher- a PM who had enormous influence for decades and whose policies are still being felt- with a man who wrote a few books and taught economics shows Dacre as being a fool who underestimates even his thickest readers.

I'm loving the Mail hacks who write these things- they really come across as ghastly minions grovelling at their editor's feet.

If it's the past we're going into:



en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daily_Mail

Can Neil Wallis please explain... why does he and everyone else keep saying that the Mail and Mail On Sunday are different papers? That online is totally separate from the printed press? All are owned by the same company (and isn't Paul Dacre Executive Editor of them all?).

because geordie gregg is after dacre's job and trying to distinguish the MOS as a different publication.

Worth reading...
www.theguardian.com/media/greenslade/201...dailymail?CMP=twt_gu

JK2006 wrote:
Can Neil Wallis please explain... why does he and everyone else keep saying that the Mail and Mail On Sunday are different papers? That online is totally separate from the printed press? All are owned by the same company (and isn't Paul Dacre Executive Editor of them all?).

Well I know what you mean, but that's a bit harsh. I don't think you can dismiss the editorial differences completely. Few people, for example, would class the Sun and the Sunday Times as being just the same because of Rupert. Look at the differences over Hillsborough, for example. The editors of the Mail and MoS notoriously hate each other and would shaft each other any chance they get.