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Don't see why not? She's certainly promoting the paper and inviting us to consider them favourably in doing so. Admittedly she's not defending their editorial and journalistic content, that's what others chose to do, though I'm not sure that saying that they're not as "rabid" as the BNP was a defence I'd like to rely on.

For the record Kriz, I do differentiate between the tits and arses right wing popularist press, and one that openly supports and funds the nazi party. If you can't see the distinction then I'm dissapointed. Put simply, one kills millions, the other might chase the odd individual to their grave, and indulge in many an unsavoury stunt, but context is critical. Personally I think there's a world of difference between something that feeds off the Beckhams et al, and something that covertly pedals a dangerous political philosophy. To a large extent the Mail's been given something of a clean run at it, since their principal 'mid range' rival is hopelessly obessessed with a dead Princess, they are however frequently foremost in the vanguard when it comes to running any 'race' or race related story which is clearly designed to appeal to a certain reactionary instinct in the population

All I was doing before anyone went running away with some idea about the lovely benevolence of the Daily Mail, was point out their tradition, and that under their own direction, so with seemingly no excuse other than conviction in their believe, they probably represent the low water mark of British journalism