I have to confess I rarely buy a newspaper however I do tend to buy The Mail on a Saturday rather than every day mainly because it has the best TV guide for the week ahead with a good balance of both terestial channels and also satellite ones. On a Saturay the paper costs seventy pence and it is in a tabloid format. From the times I have bought this during the week or read it at my parents house where they get it delivered it is basically the same format however you do not get as many pages of adverts in the week and there is only a magazine inset at the weekend. This is a rather right wing middle class paper and its editorial andjournalistic style ...  Read the complete review

Three words to cause fear in the heart of anyone who has a brain in their heads ‘The Daily Mail’. As the mass media sinks further and further into a quagmire of tabloidism, trivial hysteria, misinformation and reductionism one paper can be seen as leading this charge into the abyss. That paper is the Daily Mail, bastion of Middle England, small-minded small isle xenophobia and bigotry. The thing that makes me shudder more than anything about the existence of the Daily Mail is that it believes it self to more than the tabloid piece of trash it is. Unlike ‘The Sun’, ‘The Mirror’ or ‘The Star’, the Daily Mail ...  Read the complete review

This is a newspaper that is considered to be halfway between a broadsheet and the tabloid red tops - ie the Sun, Mirror etc. At the risk of incurring the wrath of Daily Mail readers I'll state from the outset that its quasi intellectual posturing does not make it any better than the Sun or the Mirror. Further I will state that anybody who pretends that this tabloid format has anything like the intelligence of The Telegraph, The Guardian or even The Times is deluding themselves. Clearly the politics of the Daily Mail is not for readers who want to think, rather for those that want to be manipulated by reactionary arguments. Regarding their political ...  Read the complete review

An article in "Private Eye" once described the Daily Mail as the self-appointed "custodian of the nation's morals". Pretty damn spot-on. The only reason I sometimes read this load of c**p is because my dad buys it, honest! Ermm...where do I start? Well, for one thing, it is so far up its own a**e, it needs corrective surgery. It's smug moral judgements make me cringe. I'll give you an example. The other day, there was a story in the Mail about a 12-year-old girl who had successfully helped to deliver her sister's baby. Not a mean feat for a young girl. I expected the article to praise her quick thinking, but instead, ...  Read the complete review

If I had to put the Mail into a comfortable bracket, it'd be the one reserved for ninety year-old Tory peers and retired schoolteachers from Kent. The three sit quite nicely together, spouting their utter drivel at anyone who should care to listen. The frankly disgusting aspects of the Mail are numerous. I try, in my opinions, to be as objective as possible while still recounting my own experience, but I am afraid in this instance I could only live with myself if I am completely honest and criticise the paper for the tripe it is. Primarily, it's fixation with the past is ridiculous. It seems to be living in a world where wives stay at home to ...  Read the complete review