Great moments in British journalism

Posted on February 2, 2005 by acb

The front page of today’s Daily Mail. The Express was almost identical. I suppose that to win the next election, Blair will announce that householders have the right to shoot asylum seekers, but only if they’re very very angry.

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One Response to Great moments in British journalism

  1. Pat McGrane says:
    February 3, 2005 at 10:56 pm

    I read that report on the BBC web page. Actually, it is another masterpiece of misinformation. All it seems to be doing is rehearsing British common law which allows a person to use reasonable force to protect himself or another from death or injury. The definition of “reasonable” is what puts lawyers in Mercs and citizens in jail. I found the bit about the householder being able to use anything that comes to hand “including a gun” amusing. Anyone who happens to have a gun, even a legal one, “lying about” is likely to be a world of hurt what ever the situation. The fact that the gun in question was not locked up in a steel box soemwhere would, I have no doubt, raise the spectre of pre-meditation.

    Still, this is an improvement on the government’s prior attitude that burglars are just honest working people like the rest of us who shouldn’t be inconvenienced as they go about the worthy task of wealth re-distribution. I suspect that the government published this document says more about the imminence of the election rather than a change of heart. An American once said “You can’t fool all of the people all of the time”. How little he knew.

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