Mail on Sunday backs Remain [***Title edited by MNHQ on receipt of reports. Warning: Art Attack contained herein. If you're familiar with the work of Lucian Freud you'll know it's uninhibitedly fleshy]

[claig]

Never thought much of its editor. Love Dacre on the Daily Mail.

I don't know about salmon farm. You may well be right, but he is not part of the metropolitan set, the Notting Hill Mob, the Chipping Norton Lot etc

Will you stop this 'for the people' nonsense, claig? It's so embarrassingly wrong. We are all the people.

I treasure the comment about Lucian Freud.

He is old school Tory, real Tory, people's Tory, not a "moderniser" like Cameron and the team.

'I treasure the comment about Lucian Freud.'

Are you denying it is spot on?

Are you saying the Mail is a serious newspaper ? Good God.

'Are you saying the Mail is a serious newspaper ?'

If it wasn't then Jonathan Powell, Blair's former Chief of Staff, would not have said that it is the paper the politicians fear (and he didn't just mean Labour ones, he meant the entire political class).

I think you are confusing serious with popular

It is because it is popular that it is serious for the political class. If Dacre decides to campaign on an issue, there is panic among the metropolitan set.

Great...

Industry insiders put the difference in opinion between the DM & MoS down to the absolute hatred between the two editors. If one said was day, the other would say it was night.

So these two are basically driving the Remain/Brexit campaign?...

Good to know the English Education System is so great in independent thinking - NOT!

Crying with laughter over here OP. Thanks for the Saturday night comic relief.

serious paper indeed!

Ah, sorry I thought you meant that its content was serious as in intellectually serious. It's content is worrying, certainly.

I know for a fact that Paul Dacre is chauffeured everywhere, all day every day. 'Man of the people' indeed...

It is widely thought that Daily Mail will come out for Leave so not surprising.

Papers are about 50/50 split and so are the polls.

Whatever happens on Thursday half the population won't be happy and I can't see this ending anytime soon.

'Ah, sorry I thought you meant that its content was serious as in intellectually serious'

Have you read the comments section? I have yet to find a more stimulating, thought-provoking and intellectually challenging discussion forum.

'I know for a fact that Paul Dacre is chauffeured everywhere, all day every day. '

I expect that is because he is always busy on a mobile phone or writing editorials in a notebook. Thinkers and philosophers often do not carry out mundane activities such as driving vehicles to and fro.

Paul Dacre? Philosopher?

Isn't this the bloke who refuse to allow his wife's photo be printed even though his paper is all about encouraging people to comment on women's bodies? Yeah, he's a real thinker and philosopher.

Daily Mail - Leave
Mail on Sunday - Remain
Times - Remain
Sunday Times - Leave

I'd assumed that they'd all be Leave. Maybe to those in the journalism trade the distinction is obvious but to Joe Soap it must seem odd that the Sunday edition of their paper is staying stay while Mon - Sat they're saying leave.

'When I heard that he spent years researching and writing a biography of Lucien Freud, I instantly knew he was a metropolitan elite progressive and not what I would call a real Tory like the formidable Paul Dacre'

I will treasure this always.

Thank you

Lucien Freud's portrait of David Cameron just after a Remain campaign de-brief.........

Meanwhile, not to be outdone, Boris commissioned his own Freud....

And Nigel Farage said 'by jingo, I'm having a Freud portrait too'.

And Michael Gove said 'wait for meeeeeeeee'.

And Iain Duncan Smith was all 'Oh you guys'.

George Osbourne got things a bit confused.......

Claig you wrote this regarding the Daily Mail: "Have you read the comments section? I have yet to find a more stimulating, thought-provoking and intellectually challenging discussion forum".

I don't know what you're on glue? but I think even you know this is not true. To generalise the DM comments section, I'd use words like racist, homophobic, illiterate, ignorant (separate issue from the journalism being factually weak, biased or plain wrong but obviously related to IQ of readers that fall for it). It's also at times quite inhumane and seems to relish whipping up hatred (aka Katie Hopkins) and divide.

If you find this material "thought provoking and intellectually challenging" then I genuinely pity you. Seriously, I find your post extremely sad indeed.

As the saying goes, "you are what you read"

You cannot actually be 'a man of the people' if you think yourself too important to do the 'mundane' activities that ordinary people do. You know this of course.