'The Mirror is part of the lives of the people of Britain. campaigns on the issues that concern us all. It is our newspaper.
All of which was in reply to Tony Benn, who had claimed in a number of speeches that the Mirror has always been Labour Party and the trade unions.
The Mirror's protest of innocence on this charge is partly due to the circulation war of the VICES. populist Daily Star has meant that the Mirror's "democratie socialist' credentials become more important.
Sales But that is not the only reason. If the Mirror was only concerned with its sales it would not attack Benn so mercilessly. It knows that Benn is a popular figure among hundreds of thousands of knows that Arthur Scargill enjoys a similar support.
But last week the Mirror went so far as to call for the prosecution of Scargill because he advocated breaking Denning's ruling on the steel pickets. Said the Mirror:
*The argument Scargill is that that is what he wants to happen. It is a strong one. But if the law is to be applied impartially, "As a 'Mirror Comment', this seems 10 back up Benn's case that the Mirror, along with the rest Street, conditioning and brainwashing the people ...
accept policies that are the top acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, Pride and Prejudice are five in number, all aged between 15 and 21, and without any inheritance since their father's property must pass to a male heir (their cousin consequently spends all her time Fay Weldon's dramatisation currently being serialised on BBC FAT cheerfül, cynical yet tender writer committed feminist views about the lot of women. Jane Austen, writing some two hundred years before her, was a mistress.
calm, elegant understatement.
weapon was irony - the barbed nib at:: end of the quill!;
combination extraordinary women should have been dynamic:
For despite Ms : directness, her anger, her hard edge — and despite Ms Austen's seeming acquiescence in all the niceties of the society she describes so minutely there are arresting between them. Both use the details of social manners as a key to their own views of morality. Both indulge in a comments and "hostile' to the The emergence working people, just as l against prosecuting Mr he ought to be granted his wish.' *are engaged in their SALLY FELDMAN with strong Her The these two Weldon's sundare There are other examples. 'winter of discontent' when Labour power, the Mirror was indistinguishable from the rest of the national press. Britain is being held to ransom as industrial chaos grips the country', ran its lead story on 18 January 1979.
To go further back, enthusiastiç supporter of Barbara Castle's 'In Place of Strife' proposals for trade union 'reform'. "Bloody
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