# The (British) Daily Mail is rather Right Wing **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [October 27, 2016, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891 "2016-10-27T23:08:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ticker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d07c76/32.png) [@ticker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ticker)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/41 "2016-11-12T16:48:30Z")
Certainly too nasty for Lego: [https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/12/lego-not-planning-any-future-tie-ins-with-daily-mail-after-protests](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/nov/12/lego-not-planning-any-future-tie-ins-with-daily-mail-after-protests) ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/42 "2016-11-12T20:10:13Z")
> [@ticker](#): > > Certainly too nasty for Lego: I guess it wasn’t a good fit. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/43 "2016-11-12T23:23:57Z")
Of course not. Lego is held together with circular plastic studs 4.8mm across. The Daily Mail is held together by popular fascism. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/44 "2016-11-13T02:34:50Z")
Maybe there’s an adapter kit. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 9:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/45 "2016-11-13T09:29:47Z")
May all Daily Mail readers tread barefoot on pieces of Lego at every opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![up\_the\_junction](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f1d935/32.png) [@up\_the\_junction](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/up_the_junction)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/46 "2016-11-13T09:36:24Z")
What next: KerPlunk announces support for the Peshmerga? ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2016, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/47 "2016-11-13T18:27:15Z")
Hard to see how the _Daily Mail_ can survive the loss of Lego advertising. The only more crushing blow would be if Patek Philippe abandoned the _New York Times_. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/48 "2016-11-14T07:14:49Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Hard to see how the _Daily Mail_ can survive the loss of Lego advertising. > > The only more crushing blow would be if Patek Philippe abandoned the _New York Times_. ☹ Lego alone won’t make a significant dent, but they could be blazing a trail that other brands who like to be considered ethical may choose (or may feel obliged) to follow - Co-Op, M&S, John Lewis/Waitrose, Lush, Body Shop, etc. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 7:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/49 "2016-11-14T07:24:52Z")
The Mail, along with the Sun, have just been caught out in an even more blatant lie (to be fair, they may just have been sold a pup by a freelance photographer, but whoever it was knew what they would lap up without question) : [http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/no-jeremy-corbyn-wasnt-dancing-9252300](http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/no-jeremy-corbyn-wasnt-dancing-9252300) ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/50 "2016-11-14T08:10:52Z")
The most idiotic thing about all that is: so what if he even _was_ ‘dancing a jig’ on his way to the service. It’s not an insult to do that. The service of remembrance is explicitly supposed to be a sharp and solemn contrast to our everyday lives. It’s also supposed to be about realising that our ordinary lives contain freedoms (such as the freedom to dance a jig in the street, if we want to) that were won at great cost and sacrifice. I mean, I doubt he was dancing at all anyway, but manufactured unthinking patriotic bullshit outrage is orders of magnitude worse than would be dancing on your way to a memorial service. ---
**Author:** ![PatrickLondon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/patricklondon/32/4422_2.png) [@PatrickLondon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatrickLondon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/51 "2016-11-14T11:09:14Z")
Corbyn + dancing = does not compute. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_great_unwashed/32/4791_2.png) [@The\_Great\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2016, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891/52 "2016-11-14T13:36:15Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > … manufactured unthinking patriotic bullshit outrage is orders of magnitude worse than would be dancing on your way to a memorial service. Hear, hear! They don’t even represent that which they pretend to represent. Their hypocrisy and self-serving agenda is utterly sickening. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-british-daily-mail-is-rather-right-wing/769891.md?page=2)