It Is A Newspapers’ Duty To ‘Shine A Light Into Dark Corners And Ask Awkward Questions’.

[anotheoldgit]

If only Mrs May, if only, surely it is all dependant on which dark corners they are looking and which newspaper is doing the looking.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5419975/Theresa-Press-shine-light-dark-corners.html

[Baldric]

Am surprised you answered 'Yes' as no question has been asked.

[andy-hughes]

A glance left shows that The Mail continues its unique role in bringing us the sort of purple prose that surely should be left to the Sunday tabloids of the 1970's - 'flaunting' is the tamest of its epithets.

And the sub-editors in the print edition continue to fall over themselves in their ceaseless quest to over-do their purple prose descriptions.

Last weekend's Weekend magazine referred to the latest sword-and-sandals TV epic as featuring, quote, 'blisteringly beautiful women ...'

Blisteringly beautiful?

Really?

They are such a bunch of pompous prats!

[andy-hughes]

Oops - that should be a glance 'right' - it is The Mail after all - they wouldn't know 'the left' if it jumped up and bit them!!

[naomi24]

//It Is A Newspapers’ Duty To ‘Shine A Light Into Dark Corners And Ask Awkward Questions’.//

Absolutely right.

[Gromit]

Is this a reference to the Czech fantasist who claims to have arranged ‘Live Aid’ and financed the the event with Czech money.

As far as the alledged meeting with Corbyn, he has an alibi...

// Jeremy Corbyn has revealed he was at a meeting in Derbyshire at the exact time that a former communist spy claims to have been with him in London.

The Labour leader said his records prove he attended a gathering of socialists in Chesterfield in October 1987, when the Czech agent claims to have been talking with him in the House of Commons.

It also happened to be the day after Mr Corbyn’s mother died and a Saturday – when the Commons does not sit – making the alleged meeting in Westminster more unlikely. //

[Garaman]

I think it depends on the reason for shining the torch. If there is a real concern and feeling that something should be in the public domain then of course, but if it is purely to ‘excite hatred and contempt of the Government’ then maybe the Stamp Act had that bit right.

[gulliver1]

Gromit Once again the Conservative Propaganda Machine swings into action to try and discredit the Labour Party. The Con Men are running scared, and we are years away from the next General Election, or are we!.

[naomi24]

Gulliver, the Labour discredits itself - on a regular basis.

[anotheoldgit]

andy-hughes

/// They are such a bunch of pompous prats! ///

As the saying goes "it takes one to know one".

Please don't try and turn this thread into another one of your anti Daily Mail rants.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// It also happened to be the day after Mr Corbyn’s mother died ///

Oh so he attended a gathering of socialists in Chesterfield the day after his mother died?

That man never stops giving.

[dannyk13]

From the link:-
//Mr Corbyn admitted hosting a Czech spy posing as a diplomat in the Commons in 1986, but claimed he ‘could not recall’ further meetings detailed in intelligence services archives in Prague//

[andy-hughes]

AOG - // andy-hughes

/// They are such a bunch of pompous prats! ///

As the saying goes "it takes one to know one".

Please don't try and turn this thread into another one of your anti Daily Mail rants. //

I wasn't trying!!

[ludwig]

I'd love it if Corbyn turned out to be secret agent COB, but unfortunately it does stink of tabloid smear nonsense.

Foreign spies are always on the lookout for twits like Jeremy to groom as potential allies, and twits like Jeremy are always looking to build relationships with foreign diplomats of countries they admire.

It doesn't surprise me that a couple of meetings happened, but I don't think it's anything to get excited about.

[dannyk13]

Ludwig, I would agree with you except fro the fact that he has history of hob-nobbing with dubious characters.

[anotheoldgit]

Andy-Hughes

/// I wasn't trying!! ///

Then I suggest you do what your teachers must have told you over and over to do, "Try harder, and then perhaps, but then only perhaps, one day you may succeed".

[ludwig]

// he has history of hob-nobbing with dubious characters. //

Yeah, but he's never made any secret of it. He's just a twit that likes hob-nobbing with dubious characters. He never expected to be a potential Prime Minister after all.

[anotheoldgit]

spathiphyllum

/// If news papers correlate, i'll accept the news. ///

There will always be some who for their own agenda won't be prepared to share with others what they find in their search in dark corners.

/// If they don't and one is just more fear mongering than informal, i'd rather get a paper cut. ///

There is always fear attached to searching into dark corners and some are frightened of what lies in those dark corners.