Bolitics The New Condem Government

[Jon]

The last three questions saved me!!

[CarewsEyebrowDesigner]

Hated. Didn't even finish the quiz!

[TrentVilla]

I'm hated. What a relief.

[markavfc40]

I'm hated. In all fairness you'd have to be a proper right wing nut job to come out of it with anything less than loathed.

Edited October 2, 2013 by markavfc40

[tonyh29]

Detested for me Not voting Labour and not being in the NUT saved me from being hated... I'd take both as a badge of honour to be fair

Edited October 2, 2013 by tonyh29

[mockingbird_franklin]

I think detested means there is hope for you yet Tony, but you need to stay on your toes to avoid the devastation of slipping into the merely disliked category

[blandy]

To be fair to the Daily Heil, it's level of balance and neutrality, rather than the sensational scare stories has led to some ground breaking medical advances, not like other media outlets, so the odd bit of vile and untrue character assassination on the defenceless can be excused, surely?

Today the Daily Mail published an article on why sites like Facebook can cause cancer, we thought we’d take a look at other strange things the Daily Mail has written about that can cause cancer.

Please note, this is all written on their site, and do not show your partner number 6..

1.FACEBOOK: Social networking sites such as Facebook could raise your risk of serious health problems by reducing levels of face-to-face contact, a doctor claims.

2. WINE: Drinking just a small glass of wine a day can more than double the risk of cancer, a study claims. It says that consuming just one 125ml glass of wine increases the chance of developing mouth and throat cancer by 168 per cent.

3. A COLD: The common cold could be a major cause of childhood cancer, a new study claims. Researchers claim that an infection during pregnancy or in early childhood could leave children more susceptible to cancers like leukaemia or brain tumours.

4. DEODORANT: New research suggests that the aluminium in many anti-perspirants has a potential link with breast cancer. Here, a leading breast cancer specialist explains why he explains why he suggests avoiding the products.

5. CHIPS: Parents are being urged to stop giving their children chips amid fears they dramatically increase the risk of breast cancer. Serving under-fives chips just once a week raises their risk of breast cancer by 27 per cent, shocking new research has shown

6. ORAL SEX: Oral sex raises your risk of throat cancer scientists have warned. A new study found the sex act can pass on the human papillomavirus (HPV), which can trigger a specific type of throat cancer in both men and women

7. VITAMIN E: Vitamin E supplements may raise the risk of lung cancer, doctors have warned. A study of more than 77,000 people found that taking moderate to high doses of vitamin E led to a ‘significant’ increase in risk of the cancer that kills on Briton every 15 minutes.

8. SAUSAGES AND BURGERS: A red dye used in sausages and burgers is being banned because it could cause cancer, the European Commission said today. The move will come into force within days

9. SOUP: People who regularly have soup with a high salt content could be increasing their risk of stomach cancer, according to an expert.

10. HAIR DYE: Women who use permanent hair dye may be putting themselves at increased risk of bladder cancer. If you have used hair dye for at least 15 years, the risk is three times greater, says new research

11. MOUTHWASH: There is now ‘sufficient evidence’ that mouthwashes containing alcohol contribute to the increased risk of cancer in the mouth, according to a scientist.

12. SUN CREAM: Sun creams could raise the risk of getting skin cancer, warn experts. Although they help prevent sunburn, lotions fail to block out the ultraviolet rays which can cause the disease

13. PRINGLES, HULA-HOOPS & PRINCE CHARLES’ ORGANIC CRISPS: An organic product sold under Prince Charles’s Duchy Originals brand has been found to contain elevated levels of a cancer causing chemical.

14. X-RAYS: Diagnostic X-rays are linked to a small raised risk of cancer, according to researchers. The radiation could be the cause of 700 cancer cases per year in Britain

15. TALCUM POWDER: Women who use talcum powder every day to keep fresh are 40 per cent more likely to develop ovarian cancer, according to alarming research.

16. MOISTURISERS: Moisturisers used by millions of women every day may be increasing their risk of skin cancer, scientists have warned.

17. MOBILE PHONES: Mobile phones can take as little as ten minutes to trigger changes in the brain associated with cancer, scientists claimed yesterday. They found even low levels of radiation from handsets interfere with the way brain cells divide

18. RED MEAT: Eating large amounts of red and processed meat leaves you at greater risk of cancer, a major report has warned. One in ten cases of both lung and bowel cancer could be prevented if people cut down on beef, lamb, pork, sausages, ham and bacon, scientists say

19.TOOTH WHITENER: Dentists are warning the public over the proposed sale of super-strength tooth whitener linked to cancer. Under European Commission plans, the limit on concentration levels of bleach in over-the-counter products will rise 60 times

20. CHOCOLATES AND BAGGED SNACKS: Chocolates and bagged snacks are being pulled from shop shelves after potential cancer-causing toxins were found in a batch of rice flour

Hat tip on every single bit of text above to the Daily Mail.

[tonyh29]

Tbf aren't they just repeating nutjob theories like those on the list and global warming :winkold: ... Rather than actually inventing them

Doesn't excuse them but we should be going after the people who produce these theories with pitch forks first surely ?

[colhint]

To be honest I think they just hide behind the phrase Scientists say

[peterms]

The DM reporter twitter feed is worth following for updates on what causes cancer.  They have a new list every week.

 

Last week's list:

 

The DM Reporter ‏@DMReporter 29 Sep

This week’s Daily Mail Cancer List:

 

Mo) Shrimp

Tu) New car smell

We) Jazz

Th) Atheism

Fr) 80’s nostalgia

Sa) Your ears

Su) Tattoo ink

[peterms]

Must stop quoting tories. But it's interesting to see a steady trickle of people wanting to distance themselves from Cameron's line.

This is an update on previous Grauniad article, grafting new info on to the previous piece.

 

Thatcher ally accuses Daily Mail of 'telling lies' about Ralph Miliband

 

Lord Moore of Lower Marsh says his former tutor was an inspiring teacher who never said a bad word about Britain

A former member of Margaret Thatcher's cabinet has accused the Daily Mail of "telling lies" about Ralph Miliband after the newspaper claimed that the Marxist writings of the late father of the Labour party leader meant that he hated Britain.

In the biggest blow yet to the Mail editor, Paul Dacre, who has launched a strong defence of his paper's decision to claim that Ralph Miliband had left an "evil legacy", Lord Moore of Lower Marsh said his former tutor was a good man who never had a bad word to say about Britain.

Moore, who served in Thatcher's cabinet between 1986 and 1989 and was briefly tipped as a potential successor to Thatcher, said it "beggars belief" that the Mail could impugn the patriotism of Miliband, who taught him at the London School of Economics.

Praising Miliband as a "great academic" and an inspiring teacher, Moore said: "Ralph Miliband taught me and I can say he was one of the most inspiring and objective teachers I had. Of course, we had different political opinions but he never treated me with anything less than complete courtesy and I had profound respect for his integrity."

In a statement issued to the Press Association Moore added: "He had come here as a refugee, done his duty to his adopted country by serving in our Royal Navy during the war, become a great academic and raised a good family.

"I saw him week after week and it beggars belief that the Daily Mail can accuse him of lacking patriotism. I never heard him ever say one word which was negative about Britain – our country.

"The Daily Mail is telling lies about a good man who I knew. The people of this country are good and decent too. They do not want the Daily Mail attacking the dead relatives of politicians to make political points."

The intervention by Moore came after Lord Heseltine, the former Tory deputy prime minister, accused the Mail of demeaning the political process with its attack on Ralph Miliband.

In remarks that went further than the careful response of Tory ministers, Heseltine said there was no justification for the headline on the Miliband piece which said he hated Britain.

Heseltine told The Daily Politics on BBC2: "This is carrying politics to an extent that is just demeaning, frankly. The headline isn't justified. It is completely out of context. As everybody knows the guy fought for this country and we now live in a totally different world to the clash between communism and fascism."

The former deputy prime minister addressed the Mail's claim that Marxists such as Ralph Miliband deserved to be condemned because of the repression of the Soviet Union. He said: "Let us be frank. Stalin did some of the most appalling things but the Russians turned the second world war."

Heseltine also said the Mail had published "hatchet jobs" on Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg.

William Hague had earlier said the Mail's attack had no implications for the future regulation of the press in Britain. The foreign secretary said it was understandable that the Labour leader had decided to defend his father.

Hague declined to say whether the newspaper had carried out a hatchet job as he said: "These things do happen."

Many ministers believe in private that the Mail made a serious error in saying that Ralph Miliband, who fought for Britain in the second world war after escaping the Holocaust, hated the country. But they are declining to criticise the Mail because they do not want to fuel the row, which has overshadowed the past 48 hours of the Conservative conference, ahead of negotiations over the future of press regulation.

But a member of the prime minister's No 10 policy board criticised the Mail. Margot James, MP for Stourbridge, tweeted: "Crass and cruel to condemn Ralph M'band for his Marxist views when they were formed in 40/50s, deeply misguided maybe but not unpatriotic."

Hague simply supported Ed Miliband's decision to defend his father, though he acknowledged that the Daily Mail's deputy editor, John Steafel, had said the Mail Online had been wrong to run a picture of Ralph Miliband's gravestone with the words "grave socialist".

The foreign secretary told the Today programme on BBC Radio 4: "I think it is very understandable that a son in any walk of life, not just a politician, comes to the defence of a parent. That is what we would expect to happen and that is clearly what is happening here. We should understand and respect that. I am in no position to judge myself about it and he will have known his father far better than any of us could have possibly have done."

The London mayor, Boris Johnson, told LBC 97.3 he understood Ed Miliband's reaction. "What I actually feel, I've got ancestry that doesn't come from this country and I think people do feel very sensitive, particularly if the patriotism of those relatives is impugned," he said.

"I can imagine that being a very, very hurtful thing and I would definitely want to fire back if it was me."

Charles Moore, the former editor of the Daily Telegraph, meanwhile, accused the Daily Mail of offending against taste and decency on "multiple fronts".

Moore, who is the official biographer of Thatcher, writes in this week's Spectator magazine: "The Mail managed to offend against taste and decency on multiple counts – attacking a man for his deceased father's views, misrepresenting those views, attacking a Jew, attacking a refugee from Hitler."

Downing Street is working hard to ensure that ministers keep out of the Labour row with the Mail. Ministers have been told to make a simple argument that any child would rightly want to defend a parent.

David Cameron said in his interview on the Today programme on Tuesday, which took place at 8.10am, that he had not read the Daily Mail piece. He said the same thing three hours later in separate interviews with the main television news programmes. By early afternoon, by which time he would be facing no more interviews until after the conference, Tory sources let it be known that the prime minister had read the Mail article.

[peterms]

[villaajax]

The land of opportunity!

[PauloBarnesi]

He can’t be all bad can he?

 

 

Paul Dacre has been editor of the Daily Mail since 1992.

He is also editor-in-chief of Associated Newspapers, which publishes titles including the Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday and Metro.

Mr Dacre attended University College School in Hampstead, north London, on a scholarship and later studied at the University of Leeds.

He became editor of both his school's magazine and his university's student newspaper, and later said his early experiences taught him that "boring doesn't pay the mortgage" and "sensation sells papers".

He began his career as a reporter at the Daily Express in 1970 and joined the Daily Mail in 1980. He was appointed editor of the Evening Standard in March 1991, then returned to the Daily Mail as editor just over a year later.

Since then Mr Dacre has become a powerful figure in British politics.

In an article entitled "Paul Dacre: the most dangerous man in Britain?"the Guardian wrote: "To some - including many in government - he is a malign force, using his paper to hound minorities and other vulnerable targets, and savage liberalism in any form.

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The Mail presents itself as the defender of traditional British values, the voice of an overlooked majority ”

The New Yorker

"To others he is the most gifted journalist of his generation, a moral man with his finger on the pulse of Middle England."

The Daily Mail under Mr Dacre is known for its hostility to the Labour Party and tough positions on issues including immigration and benefits.

A profile of the newspaper in the New Yorker said: "The Mail presents itself as the defender of traditional British values, the voice of an overlooked majority whose opinions inconvenience the agendas of metropolitan elites.

"To its detractors, it is the Hate Mail, goading the worst curtain-twitching instincts of an island nation, or the Daily Fail, fuelling paranoia about everything from immigration to skin conditions."

'Force for good'

Mr Dacre was widely praised for the Mail's 1997 headline, "Murderers", which accused five men of killing teenager Stephen Lawrence, and invited them to sue the paper if it was wrong.

In January 2012, two of those men were convicted of the racially motivated murder, and Mr Dacre said the success of the Mail's 15-year battle for justice proved that "the power of journalism, courageous headlines and relentless campaigning can act as a huge force for good in society".

After the verdict, the Guardian's Jonathan Freedland wrote: "There were few voices more critical in the demand for justice for Stephen Lawrence than Paul Dacre and the Daily Mail."

"It was, without question, the Mail's finest hour," he added.

Janice Sharp thanked Paul Dacre for helping to prevent her son being extradited to the US

The Mail was also praised last year after its campaign to stop the extradition of Gary McKinnon, 46, to the US for hacking into Pentagon computers.

Janice Sharp, mother of the Asperger's sufferer, said: "I want to thank Paul Dacre of the Daily Mail, who has stood up for Gary non-stop for years."

At the Leveson Inquiry into press culture, practice and ethics, Mr Dacre was asked if the Mail aimed to reflect the "fears and prejudices" of its readers.

He replied: "Anxieties rather than prejudices is the word I'd use."

During the inquiry, actor Hugh Grant alleged that Mail on Sunday journalists hacked his phone, but Mr Dacre insisted phone hacking was not practised by the Mail on Sunday or the Daily Mail.

The hacking scandal prompted calls for statutory press regulation, but Mr Dacre was one of several editors to sign a letter calling that idea "fundamentally wrong".

They said the British press had been "free of political control for 300 years" and backed plans for "a new independent system of self-regulation".

Many at the Leveson Inquiry and since have raised concerns about the power of the press, and of Mr Dacre himself.

BBC political editor Nick Robinson said both Conservative and Labour politicians had, for a long time, "screamed and shouted" about Mr Dacre but "haven't dared to do so publicly".

He added: "Every politician of all parties has tried to woo the Mail. It's a very powerful newspaper."

He particularly pointed to the close relations between Mr Dacre and former prime minister Gordon Brown. "Paul Dacre was a guest at many of the most intimate family occasions Gordon Brown had," he said.

Miliband row

 

The Daily Mail's Jon Steafel clashes with Alastair Campbell on Newsnight

In September 2013, the Mail ran an article about Ralph Miliband - late father of Labour leader Ed Miliband - calling him "the man who hated Britain".

Ed Miliband called this a "lie" and demanded an apology, but the Mail stood by its story - though it later apologised for publishing a picture of Ralph Miliband's tombstone with the pun "grave socialist" on its website.

Speaking about the row, Labour's former director of communications Alistair Campbell said Mr Dacre was a "bully and a coward, and like most cowards he's a hypocrite as well".

Mr Campbell added that the paper attacked anyone who did not "conform to Paul Dacre's narrow, twisted view of the world".

Mr Dacre is a former member of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) and current chairman of its Editors' Code of Practice Committee, which writes the PCC code of practice for newspaper and magazine journalists.

In an interview with Tatler magazine published in October 2013, Lord Rothermere, chairman of Daily Mail and General Trust, which owns Associated Newspapers, said Mr Dacre was "still doing a brilliant job" and had agreed a new contract, following speculation the 64-year-old would retire.

 

But he would probably tell us all that we were çunts

[Awol]

1) The Daily Fail publishes a nasty article about Ralph Miliband.

 

2) Little Ed gets very upset and defends his father.

 

3) Cameron said Ed has every right to defend his own father and he would do the same.

 

4) VT says Cameron is evil.

 

This site is pure comedy sometimes.

[markavfc40]

He can’t be all bad can he?

 

 

 

But he would probably tell us all that we were çunts

 

In fairness anyone who reads that rag most probably is.

[PauloBarnesi]

When you say VT says, do we now have an editorial written by Blue Tony or Red Ian?

[PauloBarnesi]

 

He can’t be all bad can he?

 

 

 

But he would probably tell us all that we were çunts

 

In fairness anyone who reads that rag most probably is.

 

You see thats the problem; not everyone who reads the Mail is going to be like that... Just as not everyone who reads the Guardian, The Mirror, the Telegraph, The Times, The Sun is completely the stereotype we like to perceive. 

[Jon]

 

 

4) VT says Cameron is evil.

 

 

I'm afraid that's bollocks mate.

[Awol]

When you say VT says, do we now have an editorial written by Blue Tony or Red Ian?

I think we should have both for interests of...."balance"