Boris is going to write in the Daily Mail

MiniMoon the Independent on Saturday has a good TV guide for the week and pages and pages of puzzles. It doesn't "over dramatise" news or take a party political line. Middle ground
I like it as it has snippets of all kinds of interesting news inc positive bits.

Casdon

Boris did not get a first class degree by the way, he got a 2:1.

Okay! Not what I’ve heard but I defer to you. Nonetheless any degree from Oxford is worth a Masters. I know this because my son did get a First Class degree from Oxford (not Classics though, Jurisprudence ) and he told me. It’s hard to get into Oxford and hard work once there. It isn’t for the faint hearted. You can call BJ whatever you like and I won’t argue, but lacking in intelligence he is not! And I have seen posters make that claim in the past. They’re just wrong.

Primrose53

His first column is in the Daily Mail online now. It’s a good read and is about weight loss injections and how they didn’t work for him. A very truthful account.

The ultimate oxymoron? “Truthful” and “ Boris “ in the same sentence?

My DH buys the DM, but only on a Saturday for the TV supplement and I like the puzzles. I don't think either of us actually read the paper.

Looks like I won’t need to buy the DM to read the column. It’ll probably be quoted on here, thus spreading any lies BJ does put in.

His first column is in the Daily Mail online now. It’s a good read and is about weight loss injections and how they didn’t work for him. A very truthful account.

Perhaps we should buy the Radio Times instead
On principle

Callistemon21

Casdon

Boris did not get a first class degree by the way, he got a 2:1.

I meant a first degree before they went on to a Masters and PhD in other subjects more useful to today's world.

It was maddyone who said it was a first class degree. He doesn’t have a Masters.

That’s a dispiriting byt accurate comment Wyllow3

I think its clear that the owners of the DM will take an anti-Sunak stand and major decision as such have been made.

Taking him on is de facto saying we don't care about his previous lies and racism in his newspaper writing life, nor his record of lying to parliament and integrity: feel a weary sense of here we go again: the non elected forces at work in our democracy (owners/opinions of newspapers behind the scenes) wielding power.

Thanks Casdon for the reminder, a 2.1 . Didn’t Stanley say he got a first in classics - so would be an excellent PM

Callistemon, I suspect you’ve got it there, the small boy still trying to please the bullying father

Casdon

Boris did not get a first class degree by the way, he got a 2:1.

I meant a first degree before they went on to a Masters and PhD in other subjects more useful to today's world.

Callistemon, he grew up with an emotionally abusive, neglectful father. His mother developed mh problems, no doubt exacerbated by Stanley Johnson

By accounts I have read he was very fond of his mother so I cannot understand why he wanted to honour his abusive father with a knighthood.
Perhaps it is telling, though, that he is still that small boy trying to please a bullying parent.

pascal30

I always thought he was a better journalist than a politician..

When he could remember not to make stuff up!

Boris did not get a first class degree by the way, he got a 2:1.

and ....

maddyone

Thanks Foxygloves
At least someone could see what I was saying.

This kind of remark too:

He'll probably have to limit his vocabulary for DM readers, no Latin tags

As if all non-DM readers are intellectually superior and all have at least a first degree in Classics
😀

If DH buys it tomorrow, strictly for the TV guide of course, I'll have to scour it for Boris's column.
I need a laugh an a bit of cheering up 😂

I agree Foxgloves and maddyone

It’s been increasingly clear the DM is pro Johnson. He’s keen to earn lots of money so they’re a match made in heaven.
Johnson will continue to lie, obfuscate, paint himself as the victim of a witch hunt and use his influence to work against Sunak. He’s totally lacking in ethics or morals, believes normal rules don’t apply to him.

Having a first in classics is insignificant. I’ve not seen any posters accusing Johnson of lacking intelligence, just lacking decency. Callistemon, he grew up with an emotionally abusive, neglectful father. His mother developed mh problems, no doubt exacerbated by Stanley Johnson. Being told No occasionally or frequently wouldn’t repair the impact on his developing personality caused by the parenting which combined with his over developed sense of his own importance to give us Boris Johnson

I don’t like the use of the word haters either. It’s frequently used to describe posters who dislike the things Harry and Meghan have done. It shouldn’t be used about people who read the DM, or dislike Boris Johnson, or dislike Harry and Meghan. It shouldn’t be used at all in my opinion, but I’m not the language police so I suppose it isn’t up to me. It’s deeply unpleasant though and makes me wonder about the user.

Thanks Foxygloves
At least someone could see what I was saying.

MaizieD

maddyone

I can accept comments about BJ possibly lying as he was apparently sacked for lying by The Times, but some of the snobbery on here is awful. Frequently from those who profess to be socialist too.

What snobbery is that, maddyone?

Dislike of people being fed lies is snobbery?

I think the snobbery of suggesting members of GN are less than discriminating in their choice of reading matter.
And that from somebody who has frequently been known to quote or post links to the Mail Online.
Or perhaps that doesn’t count?

Dickens

^For DM and Boris haters...^

... haters, hate. This is such emotive terminology.

I do not like Boris Johnson nor trust him - for all the reasons many others have enumerated. But I do not hate him - and would even defend him if he was being attacked for the wrong reasons. I don't join in the ridicule about the way he looks, for example, because I believe that is shaming him for something he basically can't help.

I also think the DM is a megaphone for all sorts of dubious ideologies - sexist, racist... all on 'mute' of course. But I don't believe all those that read it are racist or sexist - people read the paper for different reasons. My NDN reads it (she's not online) because it's "compact" and she likes reading about celebrities.

Can we temper the rhetoric a bit? Hate is a very strong emotion... people kill because they 'hate'.

I'm not surprised BJ is going to pen something for the DM - I think he's on a mission, and true to his form, he will blame others for his own failings and probably tell us that he's a victim of a witch hunt and a deliberate attempt by his colleagues to reverse Brexit. He's a flamboyant personality and writes cleverly, and he will garner a lot of support,

But... I do not hate him just what he stands for, and his duplicity. He believes he's been stabbed in the back - but will ignore the fact that he's also been one of the back-stabbers previously.

Being critical is not hatred.

Exactly.

No Maizie it’s not. Comments about the intellect of DM readers, for example about his use of classical quotes. My husband has a Classics degree too, and frequently refers to routes of words etc. I’m just wondering how many on here making disparaging remarks have a First Class degree in Classics from Oxford University. Many things BJ is, but stupid he is not.

…I’ll stop buying it

I might download it. It’s free online.