The smell of racism and the Mail

I have been pulling together a post about the Mail's most recent flurry of anti-immigration stories, reflecting on the reliability of MigrationWatch's stats that have been used to back up a couple of the stories and the paper's own shoddy stats that I'll post when it's ready - but I have to say that something sailed almost completely past my radar.

Hiatus: Update

Hello everybody. Things are still a bit hectic in the life of the Crackers at the moment, so posting will remain light for a while. I had been intending to treat you to a big post about this week's immigration scaremongering, but I've started to look into MigrationWatch's figures and they look really smelly. I've made some headway into finding out what they're based on, and if I'm right we have a balls up of 'Migrants contribute 4p a week' proportions so it's better to make you wait.

In the meantime, there's this from Enemies of Reason 'Express: comically racist', and here is a short list of awesome blogs I should have added to my blog roll ages ago.

Daily Quail
Alone in the Dark
No sleep til Brooklands
Buff the banana with Paul Dacre

Fill your boots!

Littlejohn predictions update

Wuurgh! You couldn't make it up! Some of my predictions about Littlejohn's column last Monday were right after all. Turns out that when you're 4,000 miles away in a man-shun where it's 26 degrees outside, news of snowy weather takes a while to get to you.

There's even a mention for polar bears.

What do we do with the drunken sailor?

See how the killjoys remove all reference to booze from - uh - what's that? No references to booze in this one? Um, why did they change this one as well then. Umm...ahh...'ELF N SAFETY!

Make up some old non-sense. Sorry.

I've called a tennis player a golliwog - get me out of here!

A couple of months ago, in characteristically muted coverage, the Mail quietly raised concerns about a personality exposing himself live on air. Being a paper that always sticks to its principles, the paper was unconcerned with the fact that the flashing had only happened on the radio, no member of the public saw and nobody at the station complained.

Littlejohn's column. Predictions.

He'll probaly bang on about gay adoption a bit more, but these things are a shoo in for inclusion:

Now we know who to send the poo to

That's part of the headline of the top story on the Mail website today. Well, not really. The paper has censored the word 'poo' for its delicate readers. The full headline is 'Now we know who to send the *** to; police probe Jo Brand's anti-BNP race joke'.

Surely, that should be 'race'