I can't comment on which tabloid is the worst but I would guess they are all pretty much of a similar pitiful standard. They are though a sad reflection of the British public and what they want to read about. The fact that the Sun feeds an insatiable appetite for brainless tat is depressing, but I'm not sure what they've done is libellous. This event has all the usual Sun ingredients, a salacious story involving a well known personality with the added bonus of taking a pop at the BBC. In an attempt to quash any accusations of a cover up the Beeb are overdoing the "look how open and honest we are" and making the story bigger than it is and the rival TV companies are gleefully picking over the bones. This is not a defence of Huw Edwards but everything about this story is nauseating and I've had enough of it now. Hopefully now his name has been released the media's attention will shift onto something else.
In the meantime, my thoughts are with his wife and the family on both sides and hope that somehow after some time they will be able to start living again, alone from the press and tv news people.
I have watched PMQT for many weeks now with Cruella Braverman sat on the front bench nodding agreement with the PM before he has said a word and then continuing to nod throughout his "reply" (a word I use loosely). So what I want to know is where can I buy a nodding Cruela Braverman doll so that it can nod in agreement with what I am about to say before I have even said it.
Permission to set aside any moral misgivings I may have when a person is "taken down" through nefarious and unfair means, if that person happens to be Dan Wootton... I mean, it really would be *such* a shame to see an upstanding, fine member of society like Wootton about to be defenestrated, wouldn't it?
I've been thinking about this scenario myself. Not specifically about Dan Wootton but if the person involved was someone I particularly disliked. Would I be more ok with the media frenzy and how uncomfortable it would make one of those on my dislike list feel? Sadly I think my answer would be yes and if people are honest I think many others would be too. Also the Sun has rightly been called a ****ty rag of a newspaper but what if the Mirror had done an expose on say Piers Morgan? Or in the very unlikely event of a Tory politician doing something equally scandalous, I doubt many on here would be calling the Mirror a rag. As I said above, I don't think I would be any different. We all like to think we are fair minded but really it depends on who the target is. And on a completely different subject LTL you may be interested in this; https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-66174677
https://apnews.com/article/ukraine-...re-detainees-88b4abf2efbf383272eed9378be13c72 Russia has not met a war crime it didn't carry out with gusto.
Grasp…grasp…grasp. It’s deeply annoying (but also likely implies how underfunded our public services are). With regard to your other point - if you live by the sword etc…
Cue right wing media attack on woke lefty judiciary. Illegal as well as unworkable. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/13/strikers-agency-workers-high-court-verdict.
I'm honking a virtual horn for the striking doctors. What don't the dumb ****s in government understand about recruitment, retention and rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. https://bmastrikefund.raisely.com/
In an incredibly predictable outcome, the district court judge's injunction has been stayed by the 5th Circuit appellate court, despite the 5th Circuit being bananapants conservative itself. It turns out that a rando judge from western Louisiana is not in fact Decider of All Laws in the United States.
