Wangja
Joined: 17 May 2004
Location: Seoul, Yongsan
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 Posted: Tue Jun 28, 2005 7:56 pm Post subject: The Daily Telegraph is 150 years old today |
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/06/29/dl2901.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/06/29/ixportal.html
Their "Mission Statement" read:-
"In our conduct of this journal, we shall be guided by a high tone of independent action; we shall be bound to the fetters of no party; we will be fearlessly independent - not the independence of the unchecked and thoughtless attack, but the independence of the utterance befitting reflecting Englishmen."
For those who may not know, the DT is about as far right as it is possible to get in UK.
It may surprise some here that such a "right-wing rag", often called the "Torygraph" in UK, is my newspaper of choice. But, their reporting does come across as factual as possible and only in their leaders do they show their underclothes.
Their rant - justifiable rant - for their birthday includes:
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Already, this present Government and its allies in the town halls have intruded further into the private lives of individuals and their families than any of their predecessors in peacetime. They have made their oppressive presence felt in a thousand insidious ways: they have imposed mountains of paperwork on headteachers and small businesses; they have allowed speed cameras and CCTV surveillance units to sprout by almost every roadside in the country; their health and safety inspectors and racial awareness operatives have made ever more ridiculous demands on enterprises of every sort, public and private; they have limited the British citizen's right to trial by jury, taken the power to impose house arrest without trial, and now they are proposing to introduce a fantastically expensive scheme to make every Briton carry a state identity card.
Most insidiously of all, they have seized every opportunity they have found to take as much money as they can from individuals and into their own hands - whether by increasing National Insurance and other taxes or by back-door means such as ramping up fines for parking and speeding, rebanding houses for council tax purposes and increasing the costs of passports and pensions.
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Jeeezz, and they did not even need a Patriot Act to do those things .... |
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