[Andy McDandy]

I noted they were the only national paper to even vaguely both sides Trump and Ukraine this morning.

What was it Jim Hacker said - read by people who think the country's run by another country? Something I suspect they'd be fine with, depending on the country.

[Bones McCoy]

I noted they were the only national paper to even vaguely both sides Trump and Ukraine this morning.

What was it Jim Hacker said - read by people who think the country's run by another country? Something I suspect they'd be fine with, depending on the country.

The Telegraph went full Tufton buring the reign of Boris the wise.
They converged on Upminster after his replacement.

It's no surprise that they'd back a pro-Putin line, and talk up all his little puppets.

[satnav]

Earlier in the week the Telegraph thought they had a gotcha because a mum who had removed her daughter from a private school because of Labour charging VAT on school fees had subsequently got her daughter into a special school and the local authority were now having to pay transport costs.

This isn't a gotcha, quite the opposite. The child who apparently has mobility issues is now at a school that can properly meet her needs. The child will now get specialist support including physiotherapy and specialist careers advice. She would probably not have got this kind of support in a private school.

[The Weeping Angel]

Earlier in the week the Telegraph thought they had a gotcha because a mum who had removed her daughter from a private school because of Labour charging VAT on school fees had subsequently got her daughter into a special school and the local authority were now having to pay transport costs.

This isn't a gotcha, quite the opposite. The child who apparently has mobility issues is now at a school that can properly meet her needs. The child will now get specialist support including physiotherapy and specialist careers advice. She would probably not have got this kind of support in a private school.

Saw that story nice to see it getting exposed for the nonsense that it is. I went on their website and half the articles were on private school fees.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Yug]

Utter shite from the dribbling swivel-eyed bell-ends at the wannabe Daily Fail

Labour council targets motorists who park on their own driveways

I think there's probably a good reason for this

Lambeth council has created a map marking homes with a red X where occupants are driving over pavements without permission to park on their land.

The south London council is now demanding householders pay the authority thousands of pounds to make driveways official. The move could make the council up to £1 million in fees...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/0 ... wn-drives/

Ah. So, rather than prosecuting the law breakers, the council is giving them the opportunity to regularise what they're doing.

HOW DARE THESE LEFTIES TRY TO MAKE PEOPLE OBEY THE LAW!!! 1!!one!!1!

Bastards!

[Bones McCoy]

Speaking of "making people obey the law".

Police 'acted reasonably' in Pearson hate crime case

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8y9j7j953o

Essex Police "acted reasonably" during an investigation into journalist Allison Pearson over a social media post by the Daily Telegraph columnist, a report states.

The National Police Chiefs' Council (NPCC) looked into the force's actions after Pearson claimed she felt "bullied and threatened" when officers visited her home in Essex on Remembrance Sunday in November.

The Essex force has previously defended its since-dropped investigation over an allegation that a social media post incited racial hatred.

In his findings, Mark Hobrough, the Chief Constable of Gwent and the NPCC's hate crime lead, said footage from a body-worn camera showed the investigating officer's approach to Pearson was "polite and carried out in an exemplary manner".

Speaking to BBC Radio 4's PM programme soon after the case was discontinued, Pearson said the visit to her home in Saffron Walden was not "standard practice" and was "absolutely unacceptable".

She added: "Kemi Badenoch, the Tory leader and many other people* in the law, in politics, in normal walks of life, have said that is totally outrageous."

* Karen deploys the "all my friends agree, and everybody clapped" defence.

[satnav]

I like the 'normal walks of life' bit. Presumably she means people who read the Telegraph and the Daily Mail. The unsilent majority.

[Bones McCoy]

Fingers on the pulse - again.

[The Weeping Angel]

On a similar note

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