Archive for the 'newspapers' Category
I don’t need sexual seasoning, thanks
Yazan: Sara | 02 September 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: MPs, newspapers
Yesterday I wrote about my sympathy for Ffion and William Hague amidst the media storm and the Hagues’ later statement. As I said at the time of David Laws’ outing earlier this year, I neither know nor care if Hague is gay or bisexual. If he had been unfaithful, then I would be sorry for Ffion, but I still [...]
Is Blair a very naughty boy?
Yazan: Sara | 02 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Labour, newspapers
The headline on today’s Guardian letters page says, ‘Tony Blair was’t Labour’s messiah’. Was he a very naughty boy, then? I was also surprised to see the self=description of the author. He signed himself as ‘Frank Jackson, Political education officer, Harlow Labour Party’. A local party with someone dedicated to political education? It sounds like something out of [...]
Hypocrisy, a prostitute and Simon Cowell
Yazan: Sara | 02 September 2010 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers, television
The other newspapers are slowly catching up on The Sun’s ‘exclusive‘ about the X Factor contestant who allegedly works as an escort girl or prostitute. The young woman called Chloe has apparently been spotted advertising her services online and was booked by the tabloid for an hour’s work at a hotel close to her Yorkshire [...]
How much is it worth to save a life?
Yazan: Sara | 01 September 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: health, newspapers
It’s almost exactly 10 years since I lost my father to bowel cancer at the age of 73 and almost a year to the day that Matthew’s grandfather, who I loved as my own, died of the same disease at the grand age of 98. The latter fought the illness for five years, a great [...]
Did you know she’s a LESBIAN?
Yazan: Sara | 10 August 2010 | No Comments
Categories: homophobia, newspapers
If you search on Google for images of AA Gill, the second on the list is one entitled AA Gill basking in his own radiance. This is a man for whom the word ‘arrogant’ is an understatement, who is driven mad by his own brilliance. But he is also a man who makes his living [...]
Bizarre headline of the day
Yazan: Sara | 22 July 2010 | No Comments
Categories: newspapers
Transvestite had sex with a dog at English Heritage castle. A spokesman for EH said: “This was a very rare incident”.
Vote Clegg: get Maggie’s support?
Yazan: Sara | 26 April 2010 | No Comments
Categories: Nick Clegg, newspapers, women
Yesterday both myself and Mark Pack blogged about the Daily Mail and other tabloids paying paparazzi to stalk Miriam Gonzalez Durantez as she shopped at Rigby & Peller. Today it appears that the Mail have had second thoughts and pulled the article from their web site – only to replace it with something even more odious – a [...]
The Daily Mail are pants
Yazan: Sara | 25 April 2010 | 4 Comments
Categories: newspapers
What would you call someone who followed an attractive woman as she purchased underwear? In my book, that’s a pervert, but apparently it’s a Daily Mail reporter. According to the reporter, who is apparently too ashamed to give his/her name on the byline, ‘The Liberal Democrat leader’s Spanish-born spouse spent an hour-and-a-half in the famous [...]
Jan Moir? The Daily Mail’s got plenty more where she came from
Yazan: Sara | 17 February 2010 | 1 Comment
Categories: newspapers
What is is with the Daily Mail and the death of gay men? First it was the outrageous bigotry of Jan Moir on the death of Stephen Gately; today Mail journalist Geoffrey Levy turns the paper’s moral fire onto Ray Gosling. With the headline ‘Brilliant, eccentric BBC film-maker Ray Gosling says he killed his dying [...]
Maybe the Daily Mail should keep its mouth shut?
Yazan: Sara | 12 February 2010 | No Comments
Categories: marriage, newspapers
As well as the appalling racist cartoon, the Daily Mail has also used their more usual tactic of a screaming, outraged headline to grab readers’ attention today. Labour’s legacy: Marriage rates plummet to the lowest level since 1862 As Gordon Brown’s Labour government faced mounting claims it has failed to support the institution, it emerged [...]
