Rod Liddle Rod Liddle

The Daily Mail is not so uniquely British after all

I am thinking of starting up a free internet site called ‘Cancer and House Prices’.

issue 25 June 2011

I am thinking of starting up a free internet site called ‘Cancer and House Prices’.

I am thinking of starting up a free internet site called ‘Cancer and House Prices’. Every day, a new piece of information, which I will make up, about tumours and property values and perhaps how these two phenomena are unexpectedly linked. I will also run photographs of young people you have never heard of but who sing in The Saturdays or star in things like Hollyoaks — largely nubile women in thongs with large breasts and tattoos — and supply a paragraph or two about how they haven’t got cancer or that they are about to buy a house, or simply live in a house, and how much it is worth. I expect to clean up, with all the online advertising that comes my way.

The Mail Online is about to become the world’s most popular news site, a phenomenal achievement as well as being a comment on what precisely the world wants, rather than what decent-minded bien-pensant liberals assumed it wanted.

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