I only read the Mail on Sundays. Its all I can take. But I have to read it, as many millions of Brits do. Ok, not the clever ones, obviously, not even, in the most part, the nice ones, the decent ones, the caring ones, the tolerant ones or those who may have voted ‘Remain’, or those who would send Nigel Farage on a boat to Rawanda. But the ‘others’. Unless, like me, they are people who read it on the ‘keep your friends close, your enemies closer’ principle. We are different to the normal readers in that we are way superior, liberal, inclusive, decent folk, lacking the others’ blue-rinsed, twin-setted, white and WASPish right wing reactionary stance. I make no judgments.

But its amazing what passes for ‘news’ in that sad little rag. Boris is a God, in Mail-land, his time as PM revered as sacred, like they previously reserved only for Thatcher. Because he ‘did got Brexit done’. If you’ll excuse the words which sound like something from the Sun. Thus, even after Boris has, quite literally and very thankfully, ‘left the building’, the Mail will truck no criticism or complaint about him. And that is FOREVER. So there were various articles about Boris critics, all hammered and slated in the paper. No weighing of arguments in that editorial suite, you slag off Boris, you are a baddie.

Next up is the BBC. Hated by the Mail. Possibly because the Beeb suffers from accusations of leftism, particularly by people for whom ‘left’ starts at about Moseley. So they found that the BBC’s environment and ecology editor went to Spain to report on the heatwave, and came back on a PLANE!!! Which emitted so many million carbons and other shit into the air. MY air!!! As if he’s Greta Thunberg and has to travel the world using only sails and electricity created using non-fossil alternatives. The plane was flying anyway. The BBC man didn’t increase its output. But they see this as HYPOCRISY!!! Which is particularly annoying as the Mail remains in the ‘not sure about this climate business’ camp for all purposes other than slagging off the BBC.

The only real reason to buy the Mail (or, frankly, any other newspaper) is the Sport.

And the Mail sports’ section was the same as that of the Times, Telegraph, Guardian, in bemoaning the weather. Because we’re in the middle of a test match against the Aussies and its all but won, other than a few hours required to ‘get the Ashes done’. Well, draw the series. But God has taken upon himself to make this as difficult a challenge as possibly by bringing the rains down on Old Trafford. Ok, you may think, it ALWAYS rains in Manchester. Yeah, but there are a few breaks in the cloud. Just the odd one. Just give us a few overs!!!!

Happy Sunday

A xxxx