12 month ago
plasticbag : I can't quite believe that I'm linking to the Daily Mail, but there you go - a series of ridiculously appalling sexist adverts from (mostly) the first half of the 20th Century - When I was at University I met a lot of people who found the idea of feminism silly and gross and couldn't imagine why anyone would be such a weird radical. This is why! That we've come so far as a culture is down to them.
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18 month ago
gleuschk : How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail - keep your friends close, your enemies closer, and your children on a leash
philgyford : How children lost the right to roam in four generations | the Daily Mail - Interesting graphic showing one family's increasing restrictions on their children's freedom, over four generations. I wonder how child abduction rates have changed over a similar period. (via Boing Boing)
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21 month ago
plasticbag : Alister McGrath is all over the place (including the Daily Mail) in an attempt to promote his book, a response to Dawkins' The God Delusion - The Dawkins book is, it has to be said, clumsy and yes, sure, Dawkins himself comes across as arrogant and rude. But while McGrath takes delight in picking apart some of Dawkins' strategies, he doesn't really counter his arguments...
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31 month ago
plasticbag : The Daily Mail has seven sets of secrets of the new series of Big Brother UK - The most notable feature is the 'golden ticket' angle - wherein one of the contestants will be chosen randomly from people who find a ticket hidden in Kit Kat chocolate bars.
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35 month ago
plasticbag : Vote for the Daily Mail ludicrous headline of the year! - More entertaining / scary than you can possibly imagine. It's almost a hard process working out and analysing exactly which headline was most scurrilous and damaging...
Rod Begbie : Mailwatch Vote 2005 - Vote for the most outrageous Daily Mail or Daily Express headline of 2005. I'm having trouble deciding between "1 IN 4 TERROR SUSPECTS ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS" and "GIVE MORE LAND TO GYPSIES ORDERS PRESCOTT" [via] #
Rod Begbie : Mailwatch Vote 2005 - Vote for the most outrageous Daily Mail or Daily Express headline of 2005. I'm having trouble deciding between "1 IN 4 TERROR SUSPECTS ARE ASYLUM SEEKERS" and "GIVE MORE LAND TO GYPSIES ORDERS PRESCOTT" [via] #
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