Sunday, November 06, 2016

What I learnt about November 5th

The best way to start the bonfire which marks this historic celebration of the sovereignty of Parliament is to use a copy of the Daily Mail. In some cases it has been known to combust spontaneously, mere paper unable to bear for any length of time the combination of fear, prejudice, lies, sexism and anger without undergoing a profound change in chemical composition.

On all other days of the year, members of the public are also advised to stand well back from the Mail, and if handled to do so at arms length, with gloves, away from crowds.

6 comments:

  1. And how about the Guardian? In its own way, it's just as bad with commentators' mockery, contempt, name calling and lumping together as racist, uneducated xenophobes of all those who voted Leave.

    "Lord I thank thee that I'm not like this lumpen parole of a Daily Mail reader..."

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  3. agreed, liberals as just as good at sneering and contempt, but if I tried to have a go at every newspaper every time I blogged about the media the posts would get tiresomely long. This is a blog, rather than the BBC, so I'm not constrained by the need for balance ;-)

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  4. not that the BBC is balanced anyway.....

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  5. What I learnt about the Church of England.

    That it's not a Church and it's not English, but a Soviet Communist front organisation, continuing to function long after the demise of Moscow Central.

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  6. I wondered why my payslip was occasionally printed in Russian, thanks for clearing that up

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