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MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 14/06/2023 11:07

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 11:05

I’m going to end up making a fruitcake this evening aren’t I?

dammit. I’m supposed to be being careful so I shed a few post holiday pounds

Late DGM had a FABULOUS fruitcake recipe which she gave to DM. No idea what happened to that. It was moist* and full of fruit.

*Sorry, moist haters.

Manichean · 14/06/2023 11:07

Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas. The Daily Mail is proudly mysoginistic and right wing, be careful where you are heading.

stealthsquirrelnutkin · 14/06/2023 11:07

PrincessPalatine · 14/06/2023 10:37

Shall we appreciate the Völkische Beobachter and the Stürmer next? The naivety of some MNers never fails to astound me.

I think you need Pink News and the Guardian these days, if that's your taste in reading.

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55balloons · 14/06/2023 11:07

@BodgerLovesMashedPotato name any other media outlet as invested in this as the Daily Mail. They are completely committed.
Gript in Ireland is another one I follow on Facebook which is also really on this.

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BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 11:07

BodgerLovesMashedPotato · 14/06/2023 11:04

Please tell me you're on the wind up?! 😂
Daily Mail, the paper for women.
I've heard it all now.

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They do not seem prepared to tolerate and excuse violence against women and children in the way that say, the guardian does

so in that respect, yes, they are a paper for women

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 11:05

I’m going to end up making a fruitcake this evening aren’t I?

dammit. I’m supposed to be being careful so I shed a few post holiday pounds

BodgerLovesMashedPotato · 14/06/2023 11:04

Plunkplink · 14/06/2023 10:36

Many years ago I was told it aims to be a paper for women and it certainly living up to that .

Please tell me you're on the wind up?! 😂
Daily Mail, the paper for women.
I've heard it all now.

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55balloons · 14/06/2023 11:04

Beowulfa · 14/06/2023 10:58

My mum reads the Daily Mail (for the TV guide mainly) and is not a nasty right-wing fruitcake. She's a quite ordinary apolitical retired woman of working class origins who likes cats, ballet and historical romances. This country is full of people like her, largely filling their days with unpaid care (grandchildren and elderly parents).

Is there an approved publication which has reported on the school's unprofessional behaviour?

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My mum (& late dad) always buy the Daily Mail & the Mail on Sunday. I do the same, I enjoy & share their online articles. They publish what I want to read & always have. I'll make no apologies. T
They are all over this topic & rightly so.

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BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 11:03

YY to Sanchez Manning

she’s really led the way in terms of getting ANY kind of ‘erm, is this really ok?’ Type message out

IcakethereforeIam · 14/06/2023 11:03

Perhaps that's why we need a DM thread, keep it all in one space to stop it polluting the wider MN. You can name change to post on it! Save yourselves, it's too late for me!

I'm fed up of GC feminist purity spirals. I have a line, I won't buy it, I'll read articles that are highlighted and if I come across a link to an article that seems interesting I'll follow it. I haven't read any DM pieces on the Nottingham killings, other papers are covering that. But this, this....I don't see the Guardian or the BBC doing much on it or doing it honestly.

HappydaysArehere · 14/06/2023 11:02

You are not getting anything from me that praises that rag.

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 11:01

Yup

my MIL reads the Mail and watches GB news

i expect PPs think she’s a right wing fruitcake

in fact she’s a retired practice nurse whose patients adored her and who enhances the lives of her friends and family with her selfless caring nature

turns out people are complicated innit?

BaronessEllarawrosaurus · 14/06/2023 11:00

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 14/06/2023 10:58

(note to self, use fruitcake more often in conversation. I like it)

Nutty as a fruitcake was a fave of my mother for any views she disagreed with (pretty much all of them).

Nevermind using it in conversation we should eat more fruitcake too.

I despise a lot of what the daily mail prints but I can't fault them over this subject and they do reach a lot of people

ResisterRex · 14/06/2023 10:59

Sanchez Manning has been one of the dogged, unsung journalists on this topic. From Dec 2018:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6450485/Trans-activists-send-free-breast-binders-13-year-olds.html

Plunkplink · 14/06/2023 10:59

I’m from the north and I like my fruitcake with cheese

Beowulfa · 14/06/2023 10:58

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My mum reads the Daily Mail (for the TV guide mainly) and is not a nasty right-wing fruitcake. She's a quite ordinary apolitical retired woman of working class origins who likes cats, ballet and historical romances. This country is full of people like her, largely filling their days with unpaid care (grandchildren and elderly parents).

Is there an approved publication which has reported on the school's unprofessional behaviour?

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 14/06/2023 10:58

(note to self, use fruitcake more often in conversation. I like it)

Nutty as a fruitcake was a fave of my mother for any views she disagreed with (pretty much all of them).

BernardBlacksMolluscs · 14/06/2023 10:56

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Ah

everyone who reads the mail is a nasty right wing fruitcake?

sounds like snobbery to me 👍

(note to self, use fruitcake more often in conversation. I like it)

MandyMotherOfBrian · 14/06/2023 10:55

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So, just to be clear, are you saying you make snap, wholesale judgements about an individual and their whole character and values, based solely on the fact that they may occasionally read an article printed in a newspaper that you do not approve of?
You automatically make assumptions about their personal views and personal politics?

And, as a side note, you are also aware that there are plenty of people who feel very strongly that all and any users of Mumsnet, particularly the FWR section, where this thread is, and you’ve just posted on, are nasty, right wing fruitcakes? So, in your case, would those people be correct in their assumption?

LadyWithLapdog · 14/06/2023 10:55

A newspaper who can’t help itself and has to provide the price of the parents’ house for the two young students murdered yesterday. The rehabilitation of the DM, really?!

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55balloons · 14/06/2023 10:55

@hamstersarse the Guardian & BBC have failed to report on Reem Alsalem speaking out, it's pretty powerful as she's from the UN.

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hamstersarse · 14/06/2023 10:53

I have appreciated the DM for some time.

All I know about them is that they are prepared to report every story that is out there - they don't avoid any topic. They may have a weird slant on some things but at least they report it. There are many news outlets (looking at you BBC) that are just not capable of even reporting on some topics and I find that sad and pathetic - much more than any accusations the DM get of being literal nazis.

MrsDanversGlidesAgain · 14/06/2023 10:53

IcakethereforeIam · 14/06/2023 10:49

I'm not familiar with these titles, I'll assume they're something far right so they won't interest me. But, good for you being so informed on the far right.

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They were papers in Nazi Germany. I reckon you can see where poster is going with this one.

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55balloons · 14/06/2023 10:53

@IcakethereforeIam I really hope @PrincessPalatine sets up an appreciation thread for them like she suggested above!

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IcakethereforeIam · 14/06/2023 10:49

PrincessPalatine · 14/06/2023 10:37

Shall we appreciate the Völkische Beobachter and the Stürmer next? The naivety of some MNers never fails to astound me.

I'm not familiar with these titles, I'll assume they're something far right so they won't interest me. But, good for you being so informed on the far right.