The Daily Heil

The Daily Heil cover 6th August 2012

Like many I am amazed that anybody in England still reads the Daily Mail, commonly nicknamed The Daily Heil for its strong pro-appeasement stance before World War II – it was of the general opinion that Herr Hitler had many sound ideas worth copying in Britain. Today, it indulges in the “Last refuge of a scoundrel”, a narrow inane “patriotism” whilst appealing to racist hypochondriacs with scare stories about immigrants ruining Britain and medical scare / wonder-cure stories. A bit like Fox News without the graphics or indeed the TV. In fairness to middle-England its circulation has been declining, an indication that even “Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells” has had enough of this journalism free zone.

Tomorrow we see another blatant display of the sheer hypocrisy of this bilious rag as The Daily Heil gives away a Jessica Ennis (Jamaican father / English mother) poster. For a rag which specialises in running racist scare articles about immigrants like the one in the past week making disparaging remarks regarding mixed race relationships and ethnic minorities this is sickening and an insult to the great athlete and person Jess Ennis and her parents.

Jessica Ennis holds her MBE honour from The Queen alongside her parents Alison and Vinny, 

after it was presented to her last November

The Daily Heil was so appalled by the tone of Danny Boyle’s Olympics Opening Ceremony showing a diverse multi-cultural Britain that its writer (sic) Rick Dewsbury wrote disparaging remarks about mixed race relationships and ethnic minorities.

“But it was the absurdly unrealistic scene…showing a mixed race middle class family in a detached new build suburban home which was most symptomatic of the politically correct agenda in modern Britain.

This was supposed to be a representation of modern life in England but it is likely to be a challenge for the organisers to find an educated white middle-aged mother and black father living together with a happy family in such a set-up.”

Yes, like the wonderful athlete’s Jess Ennis’s parents, Alison and Vinny.  Once this racist bile was highlighted the piece was toned down in subsequent editions but there is a screenshot of the original article at the end of this piece.

Lord Rothermere with that superhuman chappie
who had regenerated his country

Hypocrisy runs deep at the Daily Heil. The Second Lord Rothermere thought Hitler was made of the right stuff and we should do business with him. In 1938 the Daily Mail wrote:

“The way stateless Jews from Germany are pouring in from every port of this country is becoming an outrage.”

And less than two months before the beginning of WWII, Lord Rothermere sent a telegram to Hitler writing:

“My Dear Führer, I have watched with understanding and interest the progress of your great and superhuman work in regenerating your country.”

He added:

“The British people, now like Germany strongly rearmed, regard the German people with admiration as valorous adversaries in the past, but I am sure that there is no problem between our two countries which cannot be settled by consultation and negotiation…I have always thought that you are essentially one who hates war and desires peace.”

Lord Rothermere in 1934 exhorting "Patriotic Britons" to support Oswald Mosley's Fascist "Blackshirt" movement

His son used to lecture Britain on “British” and family values whilst living in tax exile with his Japanese mistress. It is high time the miasma of hypocrisy known as The Daily Mail was quietly and humanely put down. 

Rick Dewsbury's shocked reaction to multi-cultural Britain in 
The Daily Mail - "toned down" in later editions (click to enlarge)

Low Standard in journalism

Harbinder Singh Rana on the Queen's Jubilee Barge

To judge from the activities of the British Press the Leveson Enquiry on Press standards and influence may as well not be happening – paparazzi photos are still being used and personal stories are still being run in the Yellow Press without a shred of “Public Interest” pretense.

http://daithaic.blogspot.co.uk/2008/11/paparazzi-insight.html

London’s Evening Standard which is the sole evening newspaper in the capital has never been famous for its journalistic standards. It was formerly part of Northcliffe Newspapers owned by the Rothermere family and the Daily Mail was its sister paper. The first Lord Rothermere was an enthusiastic appeaser of the Nazis prior to World War 2 and got the newspaper the nickname “The Daily Heil” for his editorial line that Herr Hitler was a reasonable sort of chappie we could do business with. His son used to lecture Britain on patriotism and family values while living in tax exile with his Japanese mistress.

Three years ago the paper was sold to Alexander Lebedev, a Russian Oligarch who emerged with unexplained millions in the murky world of Boris Yesltin’s Russia. He gave assurances on editorial independence and his “fitness” to be a newspaper proprietor which were thrown out the window during the recent London Mayoral Election when, for two weeks beforehand, it devoted over four pages a day to pro- Boris Johnson editorial – indeed so naked was its bias it even had Boris ads on the top and side of its website. Interestingly the Evening Standard is now a free paper and is distributed under a commercial agreement at Transport for London stations controlled by one Boris Johnson, Mayor of London. Dwell not on these matters now; they are the subjects of complaints to the Returning Officer and the Electoral Commission.

However a recent Standard article under Ross Lydall’s byline plummets to a new low. Under the teasing headline;

“Met police: Sex attacker on royal Jubilee barge posed no threat”

They ran a story over the Jubilee Weekend that a convicted sex offender was allowed on the royal barge for the Diamond Jubilee pageant because he was not considered a threat to the royal family, it emerged today. The Standard reported;

“Harbinder Singh Rana, 52, was a guest of the Prince of Wales on Spirit of Chartwell despite having been sentenced to four years in jail in 1986 for five counts of indecent assault, 11 counts of assault causing actual bodily harm and one count of attempted assault.

He met Charles through his work as a director of the Anglo Sikh Heritage Trail, which aims to promote awareness of the links between Sikhs and Britons, and was accompanied by his 22-year-old daughter Kamalpreet.”

I commented under the story in the Standard on the 7^thJune 2012;

“I hope the Attorney General prosecutes the ES for what appears to be a clear breach of the 1974 Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Once a Court has tried a case and decided on punishment society's only interest is in seeing the offender is rehabilitated and does not re-offend. Harbinder Singh Rana is clearly in this category and has done much to atone for his crime.

Perhaps in the interests of honest journalism Sarah Sands can tell us how the ES got hold of this information and how publishing it complies with the PCC Code of Conduct and the Data Protection Act?”

In the best traditions the Evening Standard didn't publish this comment critical of its Editor. Good to see that the Press has cleaned up its act during the Leveson enquiry. Particularly this Russian owned, opaquely financed "Free Paper."

Mr and Mrs Queen and family on the Jubilee Barge