Sunday daily mail uk12/11/2023 The Daily Mail had the right, and should have the right, to criticise and even attack judges or anyone else if they please.īut given its history, the paper would have been wise to reflect for a moment before using an expression, as some quickly pointed out, that exactly mimicked the attacks on the independence of the judiciary in 1930s Nazi papers in Germany. The Daily Mail of course has form, lots of it from its marked taste for negative front pages on migrants across the years to its crude pro-Brexit propaganda during the referendum campaign and on to probably the single most disgraceful headline of recent times, calling three High Court judges: “Enemies of the People.” On one side of the argument there is Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre, the almost reclusive, state scholarship boy – the subaltern figure – and on the other the well-connected Geordie Greig (pictured, below) whose mother was a granddaughter of Lord Mowbray and members of his father’s family have been Royal courtiers for three generations. It is much more likely that the unbridgeable gulf reflects the different personalities of two editors who have only one thing in common – they have both edited the Evening Standard. It could of course be a sophisticated ploy by the Viscount Rothermere to have his cake and eat it on Brexit. How do you explain the tale of two newspapers being produced in the same building under the same ownership yet being so very different? There is nothing particularly new about different newspapers coming out of the same publishing stable taking differing views on large political issues.īut the stances of the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday, not just during the Referendum campaign, but now in the battles over Brexit and the current case before the Supreme Court are by any standards truly extraordinary. They are produced in the same building and share the same owner – but the difference between the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday is remarkable, as Brexit has shown.
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