So Harry and family are coming back!

I suppose the DM think being a lesbian is something to report...not exactly known for supporting LGBT!
Horrible rag!

They would seek to bring down Mother Teresa, anybody is fair game.

But saying someone is gay is ok...I suppose it's the way the DM reported it.

And Dolly was a great support of the LGBTQ+ community.
Wonderful woman!

There is something gratuitous about high lighting something very personal, that the recently deceased person deliberately did not talk about, in the way the Mail article did. It was grab and dominate the headlines moment. Tacky in a way the glorious Dolly Parton just never was

Oreo

I find that people who claim to hate and despise the DM usually know more about what’s in it than anyone else😁

🤣🤣🤣🤣

Well, I don't " hate" or " despise" the Daily Mail. I don't read it but I am kept informed about headlines and articles, from posters on GN.

I do read the Daily Mail - and the i and the The Observer, and the Daily Telegraph on Saturday,

I like to read across the full spectrum of newspapers and all of them have a lot of rubbish in them and also a lot of superb journalism.

On the Jason Aday tragedy. The best, most caring and perceptive articles I read or heard were published in the Daily Mail, one, almost unbelievably, written by Boris Johnson, the other by Dr Max Pemberton

Who cares which, if any, newspaper people read? Most people here don’t bother with them these days, they are out of date by the time you get them . Funny comments.

I don’t think people are talking about physical newspapers nanna8, they all have online platforms now?

Whether we like it or not, it’s quite obvious from the comments that people are judged by others for which media outlets they favour, and so often posts are lifted from the same ones, and presented as fact rather than opinion.

My geography isn't brilliant, so when I said The Cotswolds are less than an hour from Birmingham, I forgot to add, so is Althorp House.
Random question, is it open to the public? It would be funny bumping into Meghan on the landing!
I'd best consult the Daily Mail fir the answer.

MartavTaurus

My geography isn't brilliant, so when I said The Cotswolds are less than an hour from Birmingham, I forgot to add, so is Althorp House.
Random question, is it open to the public? It would be funny bumping into Meghan on the landing!
I'd best consult the Daily Mail fir the answer.

oh dear, do people think there's only the daily mail? How narrow!

It’s in Northamptonshire, which is further north than the Cotswolds, you wouldn’t go through them to get to Althorp from Birmingham. Is there speculation that they have moved to Althorp?

Casdon. No!

It's old 'fake news'. Rumours about DP's sexuality due to her relationship with her best friend Judy Ogle, go back to the 1980's.

Newspapers present information and opinion as well as latest news; it is up to the reader to differentiate between fact and opinion, but print remains; media is ephemeral.

I read a wide range of news online. From highbrow to lowbrow, newspaper, tv news, news agencies etc.

I used to love reading the right hand column of shame in the Mail online - so gossipy, so trashy - such a guilty pleasure. But now I find myself looking at it and saying "Who?".

The world of celebs and content creators and image architects and you tubers has sadly left me behind.

lemsip

MartavTaurus

My geography isn't brilliant, so when I said The Cotswolds are less than an hour from Birmingham, I forgot to add, so is Althorp House.
Random question, is it open to the public? It would be funny bumping into Meghan on the landing!
I'd best consult the Daily Mail fir the answer.

oh dear, do people think there's only the daily mail? How narrow!

😆
Do people not understand the usage of sarcasm, as a literary form? It's used as parody and ridicule, with deliberate exaggeration for comic effect. Nothing narrow about that!

lemsip

Casdon. No!

Yes!
BBC report.

If they need somewhere to stay in a hurry ( it seems to have been very sudden) then Althrop would be perfect. Its only open on very select days, theres plenty if room that nobody lives in for most of the time. Plus no purchase or upkeep expenses.

And as others have said, handy for flying back and forth the the US or Portugal.

Mabe they’re sitting now looking gloomily at the grey skies and the rain. 🤣

*Lathyrus. if Harry and family occupies accommodation at Althrop. I am willing to bet his uncle charges him rent.

Thinking along the same lines Lathyrus3, Althorp:

- gated estate = paparazzi no access
- strong Spencer family support system
- gets Charles off the hook

Yes, there's not much sunshine here now compared with California. They've missed the best of it this summer. That's why I'd choose Portugal, though it can be wet there too. I was surprised how green the country was.

I really do try not to think badly of people, but sometimes, random thoughts pop into my head.

I'm thinking that either money can't be that tight as they took a private jet, which would cost at least double 4 x 1st class fares.

Or perhaps more likely, someone gifted them the flight. As well as the possibility of someone gifting them a home in the Cotswolds.

nanna8

Who cares which, if any, newspaper people read? Most people here don’t bother with them these days, they are out of date by the time you get them . Funny comments.

Newspapers are mainly articles by respected correspondents. Just the kind of thing you do not find online without wearisome scrolling.

These articles also come with a clear provenance, which much online comment doesn't have.

Sure, if you want up to the minute news, go online, but even most online news will be on the front page of online news for 24 hours or more.

I'm not sure I buy into this argument of The Guardian = virtuous as opposed to The Mail =The Great Satan of journalism. Lets face it most of us get on to the Mail on line, because like The Guardian it's not behind a pay wall and I'm with Monica, it's good to read across the spectrum one has to employ a certain amount of cynicism with journalism as to how matters are skewed and the terms they're couched in. These days we only buy the ST, I subscribe to The Independent on line and my husband will occasionally pick up The I during the week. Going back to the Mail on line, indeed some of it is absolute scurrilous drivel, for God's sake any discerning person would know that when they get it up on line what to expect, daily bulletins on The Beckhams, Harry and Meghan, Katie Price, mostly it's collusion by both parties, there are those who want their profile up there. Plus there's also load of non entities who even I, who try to keep up with popular culture to an extent, you never know what might come up in a pub quiz has no clue whatsoever who Olivia Attwood is for example, she pops up regularly and apparently she's hard launching her latest flame, whatever that means, some geezer called Pete Wicks. Why we need to know this God only knows. It's the stuff of Heat type magazines, not a newspaper

At times there is some serious journalism. For example off the top of my head, a double page spread on the exploitation as to the damaging effects on Congolese children mining for cobalt. The political narrative in that paper will not be liked by those who avidly read The Guardian, possibly the highlighting of sexual assaults by asylum seekers is a constant in the Mail, whereas The Guardian will only report such happenings when they go to trial and sentencing. The Guardian is not everyone's bible, it's alienated a whole swathe of women on the transgender debate, look no further than MN I've read it time and time again over there, "I used to buy that paper, but no longer" Lets not forget they lost two of their women journalists, namely, Suzanne Moore and more latterly Hadley Freeman who now writes for the ST who made no secret of the fact that their support for Owen Jones's stance on the matter trounced any other pov. Like many media outlets there have been historical discrepancies in the gender pay gap. Added to which when the argument of unpaid internships was in the news a few years ago they were one of the many, who may have railed against inequality but were guilty as charged on that matter.

As for the comment The DM would bring down Mother Teresa, well why not? she was far from the saint The catholic church paints her she employed some very, very questionable practices in her time. However, that's another discussion altogether.