The Things Daily Mail readers say!
A New Year, and a New Year's resolution to go to the gym more. And they've started giving away the Daily Mail again, so I intend to reintroduce this section of the blog. Unfortunately the paper's readers haven't yet got into their stride, with mostly sensible letters (though there was one putting the case for the prosecution against Jean Charles de Menezes, which is that he was using his skills as an electrician to make the bombs which exploded on July 7th, and was shopped in by a Mr Big to protect others' identities). They are rabidly against the war in Iraq, getting it in to almost every letter, with only the most tenous connections (Mr Blair calls for respect, well what respect did he show when he lied to take us into an illegal war, is the kind of thing). The paper in general just appears to have settled down into a comfortable fixation with showing scantily clad pictures of Kate Moss, five times in the last eight days. I have no idea what this is doing for their sales but it's doing wonders for my level of fitness.Update: Jennifer Cordwell does us proud today with "How sparing the rod has spoilt many young lives", a letter that could have been written by a Daily Mail Reader computer programme, ending "If the bleeding hearts in our Government don't care about the decent majority..."
posted by Matthew @ 1/13/2006 11:28:00 AM
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