[jeh86]

I guess that answers the question! Speaks volumes!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yup. Welcome aboard, by the way.

[jeh86]

Thanks! I've been meaning to join for some time, but I've been procrastinating about it. Can't seem to find an avatar which fits yet!!

[mattomac]

Thing is I find sticking such a crass advertisement for Tesco on top of two sad stories pretty shitty

[jeh86]

I have to agree! I'm sure if it was about British white southerners/middle class that Tesco advert would require a magnifying glass!

[Malcolm Armsteen]

To play devil's advocate, that promo will have been set up for months, and to lose it would cost both companies a lot of money. And we all know that the Mail isn't about journalism, it's about revenue - what passes for 'success' in most print media today.

[jeh86]

To play devil's advocate, that promo will have been set up for months, and to lose it would cost both companies a lot of money. And we all know that the Mail isn't about journalism, it's about revenue - what passes for 'success' in most print media today.

No, you are right. I overlooked an obvious point.

[Tom_UK]

Taking the police bashing angle today:



Particularly pathetic is the implication that the "Top officer" who flew out on holiday should have somehow had some kind of psychic premonition about the violence and cancelled his holiday.

[Big Arnold]

Indeed. Some trouble was inevitable, but nobody could have anticipated this much.

[Tom_UK]

Fairly good headline today by their standards, but I have reservations about the 'race murder' bit:



Any thoughts?

[Andy McDandy]

Why stress that they were Asian? They were people.

[Messianic Trees]

Interesting. It seems somewhat in contrast to the it's time for the Government to get tough/it's all the fault of "liberal values" angles taken by the editorial and commentators today.

[Tom_UK]

Why stress that they were Asian? They were people.

That's why I have reservations, i.e. suggesting that it might be racially motivated when I don't think there is evidence of that yet. I am encouraged though, that they are offering a Muslim man as a positive role model for a change, rather than the usual demonisation. On balance I think the headline is good, but the subheading probably undoes it.

[Killer Whale]

Voice of sanity. Calling not for revenge. Are we sure this is the Mail?

[bluebellnutter]

It's almost like they contracted out the front page to more reasonable people and then the usual plethora of utter shits wrote the contents