The Daily Mail is a British, daily middle-markettabloid newspaper owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust.
First published in 1896 by Lord Northcliffe, it is the United Kingdom's second biggest-selling daily newspaper after The Sun. Its sister paper The Mail on Sunday was launched in 1982. Scottish and Irish editions of the daily paper were launched in 1947 and 2006 respectively. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at the newly literate "lower-middle class market resulting from mass education, combining a low retail price with plenty of competitions, prizes and promotional gimmicks", and the first British paper to sell a million copies a day.
It was, from the outset, a newspaper for women, being the first to provide features especially for them, and is the only British newspaper whose readership is more than 50% female.
The Daily Mail has had substantial and controversial political positions over its history, including accusations of warmongering before World War I. Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook were instrumental in launching the United Empire Party in 1929 which sought a British Empire trading block. Rothermere was sympathetic to the fascist movement in Great Britain until 1934, when the British Union of Fascists held a rally where violence occurred.
Charlton "Charlie" Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is a British journalist, screenwriter and broadcaster. His style of humour is savage and profane, with surreal elements and a consistent satirical pessimism. He presents TV shows Screenwipe, Gameswipe and Newswipe, wrote a review column for The Guardian newspaper and currently writes a comment piece each Monday for The Guardian supplement G2, and is one of four creative directors of comedy production company Zeppotron. His five-part horror drama Dead Set for E4 earned him a nomination for a BAFTA. Brooker won Columnist of the Year at the 2009 British Press Awards for his column, and the Best Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards 2009. He is co-presenter of 10 O'Clock Live on Channel 4. He has also presented the documentary series How TV Ruined Your Life on BBC Two and created the Channel 4 satirical drama trilogy Black Mirror (writing and co-writing Episodes 1 and 2 respectively).
Brooker was born in Reading, Berkshire , growing up in the village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Oxfordshire. He first worked as a writer and cartoonist for Oink!, a comic produced in the late-1980s.
Alastair John Campbell (born 25 May 1957) is a British journalist, broadcaster, political aide and author, best known for his work as Director of Communications and Strategy for Prime Minister Tony Blair between 1997 and 2003. Campbell describes himself as a "Communicator, Writer and Strategist" on his website, while others have described him as Labour's "unelected, but ... hardly underscrutinised" spin doctor.
Alastair John Campbell was born on 25 May 1957 in Yorkshire, son of a Scottish veterinary surgeon, Donald Campbell, and his wife Elizabeth. Campbell's parents had moved to Keighley when his father became a partner in a local veterinary practice. Donald was a Gaelic-speaker from the island of Tiree; his wife was from Ayrshire. Campbell has two elder brothers, Donald and Graeme, and a younger sister, Elizabeth. Even though Alastair was born in Yorkshire, he would go over the county border to Lancashire to watch Burnley Football Club with his father, Donald.
He attended Bradford Grammar School for a short period of time, followed by City of Leicester Boys' Grammar School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he studied modern languages, French and German, for which he received an upper second (2:1). He later claimed he wrote essays based solely on works of literary criticism, often rather than having read the works themselves. He spent a year in the south of France as part of his degree course.
Jeremy Guy Vine (born 17 May 1965) is a British author, journalist and news presenter for the BBC. He is known for his direct interview style and exclusive reporting from war-torn areas throughout Africa. He is the current host of the BBC Radio 2 programme, Jeremy Vine, which presents news, views, and interviews with live guests.
Jeremy Vine was born on 17 May 1965 in Epsom, Surrey, England. He is the son of Guy Vine and Diana Tillett. His younger brother is the comedian Tim Vine. Jeremy is married to BBC News presenter Rachel Schofield. The couple married in September 2002 in East Devon, and have two daughters.[citation needed]
Jeremy was educated at Lynton Preparatory School in Ewell and Epsom College and played the drums in a band called The Flared Generation. At Durham University (Hatfield College), he graduated with a 2:2 undergraduate degree in English.
After a short stint on Metro Radio, Vine enrolled in a journalism training course with the Coventry Evening Telegraph, before joining the BBC in 1987.
George Galloway (born 16 August 1954) is a British politician, author, journalist, and broadcaster, and the Respect Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford West. He was previously an MP for the Labour Party, for Glasgow Hillhead and then its successor constituency Glasgow Kelvin from 1987 until 2005. He was expelled from the Labour Party in October 2003 because of his strident public opposition to the Iraq War. He subsequently became a founding member of the left-wing Respect Party, and was elected as the MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in 2005. In 2010, Galloway unsuccessfully contested the seat of Poplar and Limehouse, and in 2011 he unsuccessfully contested the Glasgow list for the Scottish Parliament, before being elected as an MP in the Bradford West by-election, 2012.
Galloway is well known for his campaigns in support of the Palestinians in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. In the late-1980s Hansard records him delivering a ferocious assault on the Ba'ath regime, and Galloway opposed Saddam's regime until the United States-led Gulf War in 1991. Galloway is known for a visit to Iraq where he met Saddam Hussein, and delivered a speech, which ended in English with the statement "Sir, I salute your courage, your strength, your indefatigability." He has always stated that he was addressing the Iraqi people in the speech. Galloway testified to the United States Senate in 2005 over alleged illicit payments from the United Nations' Oil for Food Programme.
(VERSE 1)
All caught up in a crazy dance
Living on rhythm and circumstance
All washed up, can’t you see?
That’s your problem!
Make a change in our hum-drum lives
To re-awake and realize
We’re all living on a... time bomb!
That’s gonna blow us to pieces
(BRIDGE)
Pressure’s on, heart attack
Science fiction is science fact
Watch your backs, when the bullets fly
That’s our problem!
(CHORUS)
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Take a look, take a look around town
Get get get along down
Now do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Hey hey hey yeah, no no no yeah
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Sing it out, sing it sing it out loud
Come on, come on, come on yeah now
(VERSE 2)
Crazy peoples right to speak
Pushing and a shoving
On a one way street
That’s enough, I draw the line
Go to sleep for a long long time
Blinkers on, straight ahead
Button my lip, that’s what I said
Listening, I can't justify
Oh, the pain in me I cry
(BRIDGE)
Pressure’s on, heart attack
Science fiction is science fact
Watch your backs, when the bullets fly
That’s our problem!
(REPEAT CHORUS)
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Take a look, take a look around town
Get get get along down
Now do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Hey hey hey yeah, no no no yeah
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Sing it out, sing it sing it out loud
Come on, come on, come on yeah now
(FINAL CHORUS)
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Take a look, take a look around town
Get get get along down
Now do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Hey hey hey yeah, no no no yeah
So do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Sing it out, sing it sing it out loud
Come on, come on, come on yeah now
Do I, how do I, when do I do wrong?
Sing it out, sing it sing it out yeah