The Daily Mail has long been the favoured mid-market newspaper of the masses, as the self-styled champion of Middle England. Its leaders are thumping; its splashes a must-read: so tight is its grip on the public imagination. Not for nothing do ministers live in fear of finding themselves in the paper’s crosshairs, given its reputation for having its finger on the pulse. Still, this morning Mr S can’t help wondering: has the Mail gone off the boil?
For Mr S was curious to see yet another frenzied front page this morning declaiming Westminster’s focus on partygate as ‘A nation that’s lost all sense of proportion’. It follows last week’s effort which told partygate plotters ‘In the name of God, grow up!’ All that would be fine if the paper which has been making such a fuss about alleged rule-breaking wasn’t, er, the Daily Mail.
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