Tuesday, November 11, 2008

No holds barred from Toynbee as she attacks Dacre

It wasn't totally unexpected to discover that Polly Toynbee has devoted her Guardian column today to attacking Paul Dacre's comments on privacy.

Dacre, the nation's bully-in-chief is, like all bullies, a coward: he refused to go on the Today programme yesterday to argue his case. He never dares face his critics, happy to fry alive all and sundry, never apologising, never explaining. There is a good reason for this: the stance his paper takes on just about everything is so internally contradictory and inconsistent that he could never survive even minimal scrutiny. The Mail's mishmash of lurid scandal, bitching about women and random moralising zigzags all over the place, dishing out pain and praise often according to who it has succeeded in buying with its limitless chequebook, or who has infuriated it by selling their wares to another bidder.


Tell it how it is Polly

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