To begin this article I will be honest and say, I have never been a fan of the Daily Mail. In my opinion it is a thoroughly odious and self righteous rag that represents the very worst of British values whilst masquerading as the very best of British values. They have obsessions with claiming things cause cancer and spinning the most trivial stories into hate-fueled scoops, but this week the Daily Mail managed to surprise even me, when they published their now infamous article claiming that Ralph Miliband- the celebrated academic, thinker and Royal Navy veteran- hated Great Britain.
One thing that is for sure is that this article is born out of fear. Ed Miliband had a strong performance at the Labour conference and policies such as the proposed freeze on energy prices have proved immensely popular with voters. The ever more likely conclusion that Miliband will one day occupy number 10 is a frightening thought for the powers that be and even more frightening for those millionaires such as Paul Dacre who have been given generous tax breaks under the current ruling coalition.
The entire source of the Mail's strongly worded article is a small diary entry in a 17 year old Ralph Milibands diary. Now I don't know about anybody else, but at 17 I truly believe that your political opinions are not yet fully formed and therefore certainly shouldn't overshadow a life of philosophical work in the political spectrum. I myself at 17 was an ardent supporter of Tony Blair but the same certainly couldn't be said today. Times change, and as times change, people change with it.
An interesting side-note in this whole strange affair is that the Daily Mail is famously the only British newspaper which openly supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party during his rise to power and subsequent expansionist policies (see below)
Viscount Rothermere, the ex-owner and grandfather of the current Daily Mail owner, wrote a number of articles stating his complete support for the German invasion of the Sudetenland as well as the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. He even went so far as to write to Hitler encouraging him to invade Romania and described the work of 'Adolf the Great' as 'Great and Superhuman'.
I will leave you to draw your own conclusions as to which of these two individuals has left an 'evil legacy' in their wake but the fact remains that those on the right of politics are frightened by Ed Miliband. The man is uniting the left and the polls indicate that voters are impressed with his no nonsense approach to politics. New Labour is dead and Great Britain as a whole is far better for it.
The entire source of the Mail's strongly worded article is a small diary entry in a 17 year old Ralph Milibands diary. Now I don't know about anybody else, but at 17 I truly believe that your political opinions are not yet fully formed and therefore certainly shouldn't overshadow a life of philosophical work in the political spectrum. I myself at 17 was an ardent supporter of Tony Blair but the same certainly couldn't be said today. Times change, and as times change, people change with it.
An interesting side-note in this whole strange affair is that the Daily Mail is famously the only British newspaper which openly supported Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party during his rise to power and subsequent expansionist policies (see below)
I will leave you to draw your own conclusions as to which of these two individuals has left an 'evil legacy' in their wake but the fact remains that those on the right of politics are frightened by Ed Miliband. The man is uniting the left and the polls indicate that voters are impressed with his no nonsense approach to politics. New Labour is dead and Great Britain as a whole is far better for it.
