Boris is going to write in the Daily Mail

NanaDana 😲🤭

Grantanow

I think Private Eye should run Mrs Johnson's Diary. Mrs Wilson's Diary was a great success. It could kick off with 'I'm very worried about Dylwin....'

They also had the brilliant "Dear Bill" letters, 'written' by Denis Thatcher.

GrannyGravy13

DaisyAnneReturns

Interesting GrannyGravy. Mind you, I imagine we could all guess which were the most attended rallies in the 1930s.

Just as correlation is not causation, popularity does not mean good, accurate or without bias intended to mislead.

In case you hadn’t noticed we are in the 2020’s not the 1930’s

Why is that relevant. I'm sure we could find examples of the attempted misleading of a majority all through history. Are you really suggesting this changed as we went into the 2020s?

HPQ yes, I just about remember ‘Dear Bill’
And then it was The Secret Diary of John Major (aged 47 and three quarters)
He would call his Chancellor (Lamont) Norma, and his wife Norman

FannyCornforth

HPQ yes, I just about remember ‘Dear Bill’
And then it was The Secret Diary of John Major (aged 47 and three quarters)
He would call his Chancellor (Lamont) Norma, and his wife Norman

My late Father always read Private Eye and I used to read the Dear Bill page, the rest of it was probably a bit beyond teenage me! I am now a subscriber, and it is frankly, the only printed news publication that I trust.

HPQ yes, me too!
I’ve been a subscriber for 20 odd years.
I always get excited when it’s ‘Private Eye Wednesday’!

We like Private Eye, but I’m waiting to see Ian Hislop’s views on BJ’s latest.

Molly the latest issue came out last Wednesday

Callistemon21

DH has just come home with a Daily Mail.
He said "I know you like the TV bit"

Is this grounds for divorce?

Hardly😂
DP buys the Mail now and again, it’s a quick read for news and has loads of crosswords/ Su Doku /puzzles.Too much snobbery about it.The Mail and Express and Mirror are the fave papers of working people.

FannyCornforth

Molly the latest issue came out last Wednesday

I was thinking of the fun on Have I Got News For You as well.

BoJo is falling down the newspaper rankings. Sacked from The Times for lying, overpaid by the Telegraph to write about letterboxes and now demoted to the Daily Wail. Next the Star?

My husband came back from the paper shop with the news that the owner has had to return many copies of the Daily Mail.
Customers, who normaally take it on Saturday refused to buy it yesterday, because Boris was on the front page and had a column.

Marydoll, at the supermarket yesterday, the DM had sold out. It always goes quickly-I thought it was because of the puzzle pages or the TV bit, but maybe it was curiosity about BJ.

Oreo

Callistemon21

DH has just come home with a Daily Mail.
He said "I know you like the TV bit"

Is this grounds for divorce?

Hardly😂
DP buys the Mail now and again, it’s a quick read for news and has loads of crosswords/ Su Doku /puzzles.Too much snobbery about it.The Mail and Express and Mirror are the fave papers of working people.

Quite right Oreo. I don’t buy any newspapers now but used to like the DM for puzzles, for food ideas and recipes, for the Femail section, for the TV guide and the big colour supplement was always a good read covering travel, holidays and regular columnists.

We were away last weekend and the hotel had a good range of newspapers in the foyer. I thought I might buy a DM as I was on holiday but the guy in front bought the last one. The receptionist said they always sell out twice as fast as others.

It’s a bit like Brexit isn’t it? Some people still can’t get over the fact that the majority of British people who voted, voted to leave the EU. Some people don’t like the fact that the DM is a very, very popular newspaper just because they don’t like it!

The DM evidently thought he’d bump up their sales, and they’re probably right - and I don’t for a moment think extra sales will all be to Boris-lovers. Some of those who can’t stand him will enjoy a really good frothing at the mouth at whatever he writes.

Primrose53 if you go into the mail online you will see a list of topics across the page. The last one says Puzzles or games. If you click on that it will take you to a host of free puzzles including Crosswords and Sudokus as well as various games. You may have to put up with a starting advert.

Witzend

The DM evidently thought he’d bump up their sales, and they’re probably right - and I don’t for a moment think extra sales will all be to Boris-lovers. Some of those who can’t stand him will enjoy a really good frothing at the mouth at whatever he writes.

😂😂😂

Most of the articles I read in the DM are from links by Grannetters frothing at the mouth.

The readership must be very high amongst those who say what a dreadful rag it is, only fit for the uneducated classes and how much they hate it 😁

I haven't read Boris's article yet - is it worth 10 minutes of my time? I'll look for a link on here.

Gransnetters not Grannetters

I’ve downloaded the Mail online. I wanted to find out what all the fuss is about and to read the first column from BJ. It was about a weight loss drug. Today there’s an interesting article about recycling. It makes clear how little is actually recycled from all the stuff we put out to recycle and also how little of the clothing we donate to charity shops is actually sold, the rest being shipped abroad where it is having an effect on jobs in some third world countries. Why is journalism such as this looked down on?

Witzend

The DM evidently thought he’d bump up their sales, and they’re probably right - and I don’t for a moment think extra sales will all be to Boris-lovers. Some of those who can’t stand him will enjoy a really good frothing at the mouth at whatever he writes.

Such contempt for those who have good reasons to question his lack of honesty and integrity.

I spent 4 months in hospital including over the Christmas period in a 'side' room no bigger than a broom-cupboard unable to see my OH because visitors were not allowed. Unable to exercise except for a brief 10 minute walk along the corridor at midnight in order to avoid mixing with other patients. I spent that Christmas staring at the brick wall visible from the tiny window, listening to Christmas carols on the tinny radio outside on the Nurse's Station, waiting for the telephone calls from my disabled OH who also sat alone at home - apart from the twice weekly visits from his carer. The Ward Sister was kind but emphatic - no visitors because "those are the rules I'm afraid".

I'm not frothing at the mouth - I feel a quiet, cold scorn for the man, the same scorn he holds for those who had no option but to subject themselves to his rules.

And the contempt you are showing for those who "can't stand him" is exactly equal to the derision of those who think they are superior to the DM readership.

maddyone

I’ve downloaded the Mail online. I wanted to find out what all the fuss is about and to read the first column from BJ. It was about a weight loss drug. Today there’s an interesting article about recycling. It makes clear how little is actually recycled from all the stuff we put out to recycle and also how little of the clothing we donate to charity shops is actually sold, the rest being shipped abroad where it is having an effect on jobs in some third world countries. Why is journalism such as this looked down on?

No idea maddyone but no doubt someone will be along shortly to educate us…

I often agree with your posts, Dickens as they are usually full of common sense but I cannot agree with the attack on Witzend.
She didn't say she held Boris in high regard at all, it was
Just an observation on why, perhaps, the sales of the DM may have gone up.

DM readers are subjected to an almost daily onslaught if disparaging comments from other posters who, by their posts, obviously consider themselves intellectually superior to the uneducated who read that 'rag'.
It is, though, noteworthy and ironic that most of the links on here to articles in the DM are from those who profess to despise it but must scour it regularly in order to become enraged.

I don't read it btw so no axe to grind except fairness.

There are many of us who have reason to feel enraged by some of his actions. I couldn't visit DH in hospital but Boris and his cronies were partying so yes, I'm angry too.

I hope you're on the road to recovery now.

Excuse typos

Callistemon it’s a really boring read, it’s about his diet and diet drugs.

As an aside, who does he think he’s kidding with his ‘jogging’?

I sincerely hope that he won’t be bringing out a fitness dvd for Christmas

I hope you’re getting well too Dickens.

I was ill and in hospital too during that period, but I was only in for twelve days with Covid. With regard to my not having any visitors during that period, I’m not seething. I knew everything was being done by my doctors and nurses to get me well and frankly I didn’t/don’t care what people in Downing Street were doing. I cared about me getting well and going home and I put all my effort into that. No one could visit my elderly mother either when she was in hospital then. We accepted it because it was what it was. Luckily she got better at that time and so did I. Four months is a long time without visitors, hopefully you could talk on the phone to your husband and family.