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13 September 2011

Why the Daily Mail’s Right Minds fails to deliver

No, it's not the politics or the 55-deck shrill headlines that disappoint.

By Steven Baxter

I don’t think Right Minds is for me. This isn’t a tremendous surprise given my political leanings, but it’s not that. I’m used to reading the Mail and being infuriated by their columnists, or irritated by their 55-deck shrill headlines about benefit cheats, gypsies and single mums, but it’s not that either.

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