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Phligm Phlagm 2

Jun 19, 2016 22:33

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prester_scott June 20 2016, 02:15:03 UTC

I admit I'm viewing it from a distance, but I'm impressed at how thorough the Daily Mail's coverage is when they do a serious story, yet people always trash them.

Meanwhile the Guardian, to me, seems no different from the New York Times, i.e. a bunch of liars with an agenda.

philmophlegm June 20 2016, 08:24:01 UTC

I think most people's view on the Mail is coloured by the website's home page which has lots of clickbait celebrity stories (often about American celebrities who are largely unknown over here) - the physical paper version is pretty light on celebrity stuff. But yes, I think they do the serious stuff well most* of the time ( ... )

prester_scott June 23 2016, 10:23:07 UTC

I have a mostly unrelated question for you, but you seem like the perfect person to give me a reasonable answer:

Why the hate for Maggie Thatcher? Is it justified? What is your opinion of her political life and work?

You live there, if I'm not mistaken you're old enough to have lived through her administration, you know economics, and I doubt you hate her just because she wasn't a leftist.

philmophlegm June 25 2016, 23:07:43 UTC

It's a question I find difficult to answer. To me, it's not justified and she should go down in history as one of the country's greatest and most effective prime ministers. The UK she took over in 1979 was one where power was divided betwen the State and trade union leaders that ranged from left to far-left to actively in the pay of the KGB***. It was a country where the top rate of income tax was 83%. It was a country where financial institutions were massively constrained in their ability to create wealth. It was a country where the State controlled not just important aspects of people's lives, but trivial ones as well*. The UK was the "sick man of Europe ( ... )

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