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Post by Deleted on Oct 31, 2017 15:07:19 GMT
Mrs P buys it on a Saturday for the TV magazine mostly, but I never read the paper bit. I do look at the website now and then, but only because it seems to have a large collection of stories about celebrities I've never heard of parading around in skimpy bikinis on holiday.
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Post by humphreythepug on Oct 31, 2017 15:22:59 GMT
I visit the website daily, I find it easy to read and some of the articles are actually quite good, however I read everything with an open mind as I know how much of it is whipped up to anger certain types.
I believe the website is the most read news website in the world.
Interestingly when in Thailand at the beginning of the month I found out that the Daily Mail website is blocked over there.
The thing that makes me laugh the most with the Daily Mail; it's the same with the Daily Express, is their continued fascination with the weather, particularly in the lead up to winter, it is always wrong.
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Post by Blarno on Nov 1, 2017 12:03:55 GMT
I don't read newspapers any more - they were the only source of amusement when I worked night shifts and the Daily Fail was one of them. It's a hateful rag that is only fit for starting fires. This made me laugh when I was in the Chinese the other day waiting for a delivery.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 1, 2017 13:06:07 GMT
Surely if you were looking at the Mail it wasn't in the Chinese, rather it was in the Chinky-chonk?
I'll get me coat.....
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 1, 2017 13:33:14 GMT
They say that if you feel the need to point something like that out, it's probably because it's not a widely held view among everyone else.
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Post by Bob Sacamano v2.0 on Nov 1, 2017 14:01:03 GMT
Can I just point out that my opinion on these matters is generally the correct one.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 16:43:19 GMT
Media coverage of the raise in interest rates has made my eyes roll:
Don't use 'increase' when 'hike' is available. Use 'impact' rather than effect. Say that interest rates 'will DOUBLE' when going from 0.25% to 0.5% follows the BoE's norm of moving in 25bps steps. What will it mean 'for YOUR mortgage?'
Funnily enough, the Mail's early headline that rises would be 'glacial' struck me as the most balanced of the early ones - but then it probably speaks volumes about the age of readership that they are more bothered about deposit than mortgage rates and the overall economy...
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 17:38:29 GMT
One of the points made is that many people have made too much use of the low rates to gain in the house/home/rental property market. A lot of people will find themselves over extended which will make them regret being so keen to take advantage of the rates. That an increase was inevitable at some stage is obvious but folk are folk. IMHO, the slow rates of increase will have limited scope for negative impact while also having little affect on savers. A middle of the road change then.
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Post by racingteatray on Nov 2, 2017 18:48:13 GMT
One of the points made is that many people have made too much use of the low rates to gain in the house/home/rental property market. A lot of people will find themselves over extended which will make them regret being so keen to take advantage of the rates. That an increase was inevitable at some stage is obvious but folk are folk. IMHO, the slow rates of increase will have limited scope for negative impact while also having little affect on savers. A middle of the road change then. Which will be what the BoE is aiming for.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 2, 2017 19:14:22 GMT
The BoE has probably called it more right than wrong over their tenure imho, something to be grateful for.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2017 8:25:18 GMT
The majority of mortgage lending is on fixed rates, and it is probable that three and five year deals maturing in the next year or two will be replaced with similar length deals on lower rates than originally brokered. Over-extension is undoubtedly present, but the bigger issues are credit cards, unsecured loans, payday loans and the likes of Bright House.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 3, 2017 12:37:28 GMT
My ex was one who believed the best way to live was with multiple credit and store cards, as long as she could afford the minimum fee she was happy to go on. VERY glad she is no longer around, me, at any rate.
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Post by Big Blue on Nov 7, 2017 11:05:07 GMT
Back to OP.
This is the advice given today by our department:
The Daily Mail test You may have heard questions asked from time-to-time as to whether a proposed course of action passes “The Daily Mail Test”. The Daily Mail Test is very simple…….. Ask yourself the below questions whenever you plan to spend public money. And look at it from a personal viewpoint. After all, we’re taxpayers as well – it’s our money too! Is what we are doing – and particularly what we are spending public money on – going to be acceptable to a taxpayer with limited disposable income? Can we defend the expenditure if it gets into the public domain? Will it embarrass Ministers or senior officials here? How would it look if the Daily Mail ran a story about the expenditure on its front page? You may be aware that _____ publishes monthly consolidated files of invoice payments valued at £500 or more. You can be certain that there are always people looking closely at this data Say, do, and spend nothing, that you wouldn't mind reading about in the Daily Mail.
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Post by Tim on Nov 7, 2017 13:12:55 GMT
How would it look if the Daily Mail ran a story about the expenditure on its front page?
It's all very well giving that advice but you couldn't rely on the Mail (or any of the others) to report it without putting some unfavourable spin on it!
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