Re Liz Jones - I heard her on radio 4 talking about moving to the country and she sounded demented. Which is how her columns come across, interesting to hear limited she can be articulate.
I find the fact she can hold two fundamentally opposing views in her mind at the same time extremely surreal - as demonstrated by the fact that she did for a while champion larger models but has stated on more than one occasion that she would rather be dead than fat and as a PP has mentioned, sneering at any celeb who isn't perfectly dressed.
That said, that's exactly how the DM functions - on the one hand tutting about the sexualisation of society and calling for teen mums to be locked up, and on the other ladling out endless pics of women in micro bikinis, posing provocatively, wearing teeny-tiny dresses etc etc.
I think the DM exemplifies the very worst excesses of our society in many ways, which is why I feel grubby and embarrassed reading it.
And yes I have stopped reading it except for every now and again, like LJ's INSANE NHS feature.
(Oh and LJ always claims that the reason she got fired from Marie Claire was because she put larger models in. It wasn't - it was because the readership dropped massively because she got the balance of features wrong.)