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Too good to be true?

Is it just me or does this comment left on Black British couple give birth to white blue-eyed blonde baby girl from the Mail Online seem too good to be true?  On a normal day, a comment like this would have been voted down by an overwhelming… Read more

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The ‘So what?’ box

Whenever you visit the Daily Mail web-site, the first thing that confronts you will be a large box towards the centre of the page. This box, which will be called from now on the “So what?” box, is where all the stories that make you go “So… Read more

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What’s your name and where do you come from?

Probably one of the “best” parts of a Daily Mail story is the comments section. It is here that you can find a perfect snapshot of the minds of typical Daily Mail readers. It’s the great arena where outrageous comments fight for votes against… Read more

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Journalism is dead

Friedrich Nietzsche once proclaimed that God is dead. Whether you agree with him or not, one has to wonder whether the same can be said about journalism in modern Britain too. ‘Why is this?’, you might ask. Well, millions of people in this… Read more

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