In defence of Heather Mills

[monkeytrousers]

Please lets set up some kind of corrective to all the spite and venom that is directed at her. I've just read a piece in The Mail which has left me feeling violated it was so insidious and nasty.

The last person I remember being this targeted by the media was Maxine Carr - it's just insane!

I for one hope they can both sort this out and wish the press would leave them alone to do it.

My MIL reads the Mail because everything printed in there is true

Yes, completely agree Bundle.

I am Britain's number one Mail Hater.
Back off you lot.
One woman I knew read it because it was a handy size. (This was a few years ago, before the Gaurdian et al went diddy.) It's tragic but true. When I pointed out it was full of misogynistic vitriolic shite, she just said "Yes, but if you're on the train....."

I was slightly in awe of my dp's supposedly scary ex wife until she dropped into the conversation once that she read the Mail..my how I sniggered...

My mum says she likes the Saturday TV page...

Can I be No 2 Mail hater?

Reminds me of my sister who was doorstep canvassed at a general election some years ago and told the LibDem person that she voted what her husband voted so not to bother asking her...

She couldn't work out why I was banging my head on the table, weeping, wailing "women died for that vote" when she told me.

suejonez

my MIL is another Mail reader. Hence her horror when one of her sons started going out with a Muslim girl at university...

indeed carolinamoose, I try to focus on my sisters many good qualities but every now and again that memory surfaces and I need more counselling.

Ooh the Daily Mail

I think they traget everyone who can't tick all the boxes for middle class, white, indigenous, male, hetero Christian don't they?

My MIL not only believes it,she sends me clippings out of it.
She also thinks that the BBC has been taken over by Catholics.
That if you tell children what 'gay' means,they will become gay and that babies should be weaned at two weeks.
We have some lively conversations over the dinner table at our house when she's here.

Lol at the idea of getting clippings - do you frame them and put them up on the walls when she visits?

What do you think Sue?

[told the canvasser that she voted what her husband voted so not to bother asking her...]

Actually, I might make a note of that as a canvasser-baiting technique for the next election . Although I might be on the canvassing blacklist as the last one we had rang the doorbell REALLY LOUDLY and woke DS up when he was 3 months and I'd just got him off to sleep after hours of trying. I don't think I was very sympathetic to his political message...

Well I am going to own up to reading the bloody Mail. I keep promising myself that I will switch but never do. Its depressing and never gives me any good news, just pure & utter despondency. Even Richard Littlejohn has joined and he is depressing and I used to find him funny.

I do like Alison Pearson though.

The mail does have some very good articles, particularly, one this week highlighting the problems in the far east with child marraige.

I think the best Mail is the Saturday one.

I read the Observer on a Sunday.

I have tried the Guardian but get put off by all of the daft adverts for ridiculous posts needed in the already 'oversubscribed' public sector, and I work for it.

The independent is boring, no smut

The times is way above me, so what should I read. Or should I stop and read a book.

ohhhhh UCM

Your problem UCM is that you seem to think you can just give up like that. You will a lot ofhelp and support - are your family supportive? Have you thought of going to see your GP.

The Times really isn;t that high brow - just try reading the suppliments only for a week or two, then very slowly you could cut down your Mail habit to every other day then gradually wean yourself off it entirely.

You can live a very happy Mail-free life and we will help you too of course. But don't think you will ever be able to read it again once clean, just one article and you could backslide.

Perhaps you could try reading ALison Pearsons books as a safe alternative?

I have a lovely "hated by the Daily Mail" tshirt that DH bought me.

Sorry, just wanted to brag. It's the only article of clothing I own that strangers regularly approach me, to ask where I got it.

Oh, and I do read the Daily Mail. But only as windfall, I never buy it. And if I'm reading windfall, I prefer to read the other tabloids.

Is the Evening Standard as hateful? It's the same people.

I don;t find the ES at all bad but them it aims at a different market and different editorial staff - maybe thats a good halfway house for UCM.

Love the T-shirt though.

The Times is definitely not highbrow these days!!
I sort of despair at all of the papers.
The Telegraph cracks me up - read it the other day on the plane (ie got it for free and it was that or the Mail) - hilarious!
Also got a windfall copy of the Mail on the train one day, the Queen's birthday or summat, to find they had a whole page of Sudoku, incl "Queendoku" where you had to fit all the letters of "Elizabeth" into the grid...dh and I could barely contain our scorn In fact, we didn't even try.

Has anyone else noticed that the Mail reports all its "news" a day later than all the other papers. I don't think they have journalists just people in the office who read the other papers and summarise it for the Mail the following day.

Actually I find the ES rather similar to the DM in the editorial style. Misogynistic and prone to sensationalizing and addicted to crap celebrity news.

Barbara Ellen good in Obs mag this morning re the vile campaign against HM.