I was in the bar last night (no!) and happened to pick up a copy of "The Irish Sun", an Irish edition of the similarly-named UK tabloid. One of the first "stories" in the paper was about a North vs. South Gaelic football match; I didn't read the article, but the gist of it appeared to be a match between British squaddies and the Irish army. First in history, etc. etc. mainly because the Gaelic Athletic Association have a poor history of tolerance of all things English. The reason I didn't read the article was because either the subhead or the opening lines basically said that the English played like idiots and were obviously inferior because of this. Yes. Indeed. Come play this game you've never played before whose rules are ingrained in the very flesh of the opposition team, and if you can't manage it, you're obviously some sort of sub-human moron. I turned the pages, skipping rapidly over standard tabloid headlines - you know the sort, puns that'd make grown men cry, frequent use of words like "Shocker" and "Scandal", some curious use of the word "we" that implies the newspaper is not just a newspaper, it's also a crusader and a saviour of the downtrodden. And I came to an article in which a man named Littlejohn ranted for a full page about British politics and how Tony Blair would be the ruination of Britain, mainly, I gather, on the grounds of giving away the UK's heritage to the dark powers that rule the EU. And this article was full of "we" and "our heritage" and the like (referring, of course, to Albion), despite being in a self-proclaimed Irish newspaper. So it's not just a crap newspaper that's not even worth wiping your arse with, it's even confused about its own identity.
The fact that people buy this trash constantly amazes me.
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