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a guide to british news sources
Because you (quite rightly) hear a lot about how awful the Daily Mail is, but not enough about how awful the others are.
The Daily Express:
Cons:
- Can very possibly lay claim to being even more racist than the Daily Mail
- Currently financing UKIP, which needs no further commentary really
- Also hates immigrants, the EU, and school shooting survivors
- Obsessed with a) Princess Diana and b) touting ‘miracle cures’ for stuff, all of which is nonsense
- Is less popular than the Daily Mail, but I suspect that just helps their particular brand of awfulness go under the radar more
Pros:
- None whatsoever
The Times:
Cons:
- owned by Rupert Murdoch
- Seems to have gotten steadily more and more right-wing over the years
- AA Gill writes for it and he’s a tool
- Ditto with Jeremy Clarkson (for the Sunday edition), who is the Worst
Pros
- Invented the Times New Roman typeface, so we have them to thank for that I guess
The Guardian
Cons:
- Once published (alright, it was in its sister paper The Observer, but still under the Guardian name) a piece by Julie Burchill so shockingly transphobic it’s remembered with disgust even now
- Is pretty white-feminism-y, really
Pros:
- Still probably better than most of the others, although you may have guessed that’s not saying much
The Sun
Cons:
- another one that could make a convincing case for being even worse than the Daily Mail in many aspects
- ACTIVELY ENDANGERED PEOPLE’S LIVES back in the 80s with their headlines about AIDS
- Is still loathed in Liverpool to this day due to its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster
- Happily and casually racist, homophobic, ableist and transphobic
- Just…read its Wikipedia page. How the hell is this clusterfuck still a newspaper
Pros:
- absolutely zero
The Daily Mirror
Cons:
- I think it’s sort of responsible for Piers Morgan’s fame, sorry about that
- wrote a really gross article about Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis
Pros:
- presumably hates racist comedian Frankie Boyle almost as much as I do
The Independent
Cons:
- was a pretty good newspaper as far as I know, is now no longer published
- neither are most of its sister publications I think
Pros:
- Its website is still around
The Daily Star
Cons:
- I refuse to call this a ‘newspaper’
- It literally just makes shit up and puts it on the covers
- It’s a sexist, racist, Islamophobic, gross mess
- Just…look at its headlines, and despair that people actually buy this
Pros:
- Nope
The Daily Mail
Cons:
- Where even to start
- Constantly outs or tries to out transgender people, this has led to someone’s actual death
- They kept Richard ‘Human Scum’ Littlejohn on their staff even after that: he’s also called the deaths of five women sex workers ‘no great loss’ and mocked the family of Mark Duggan
- And countless other things
- After the death of 90s pop star Stephen Gately, published an article insisting his homosexuality killed him
- Responsible for possibly the most disturbing, homophobic headline ever put to print
- Happily supported fascism in the 1930s and opposed Jewish refugees fleeing Germany coming to Britain
- EVEN THAT is just scratching the surface
Pros:
- If you were some sort of detective and the outcome of your case relied on knowing exactly what Kylie Jenner was wearing on the evening of 11th December 2015, then you’re in luck, because the Mail obsessively details young female celebrities and their choices of outfit
- Other than that, absolutely nothing.
WELL this has been in the works (even as kinda only an idea) for roughly i don’t know THREE YEARS? So I promised myself I’d post it tonight.
Title: Sherlock Holmes and the Judge of Souls
Fandom: Sherlock Holmes/Les Miserables
Rating: PG13 probably (there’s nothing worse here than in either book)
Characters: Sherlock Holmes, John Watson, Grantaire, Grantaire’s sister, Enjolras
Summary:
At the turn of the nineteenth century, Holmes and Watson are called to
France to investigate the case of a man who died in the 1832 riots.Read it on AO3, or
Whenever I hear that old chestnut about “lol superwholock and its queerbaiting” I always want to ask “…have you actually watched Doctor Who?” and the answer is usually no, and that makes me sad, that everyone thinks it’s a homophobic mess, because Russell T Davies.
Like, I have my issues with Russell T Davies (oh boy, do I have my issues) but back in 2005 he did something huge with Doctor Who, which was use it to – being gay himself – completely and utterly normalize queer relationships on British TV. And he did it really well and he did it really loudly, to the extent that you had homophobes both online and in the media complaining about his ‘gay agenda’ on pretty much a weekly basis. By the time the Doctor and Jack kissed in The Parting of the Ways, it was sort of cemented that Yes, Gay and Bi People Had A Place In Doctor Who Now. (Doctor Who has actually had a “gay following” since at least the 80s, but it really seems to be all but forgotten these days, although maybe not in the UK?)
And I know that people are right at this moment gearing up to type “That all went away with Moffat’s era, though” but it…mostly didn’t? Madame Vastra and Jenny were introduced and ended up a loving lesbian couple who faced down monsters constantly and yet remained alive. Clara and River both made allusions to relationships with women that revealed them to be bisexual. (Even though the show still hasn’t ever said the word, sigh.) Don’t get me wrong, this all sure as hell wasn’t/isn’t perfect – the T is still mostly missing from the LGBT representation the show has and that’s just for starters – but it was such a big, awesome deal at the time, it’s still making waves now even.
Essentially, it just seems a real shame that all the things Russell T Davies did for Doctor Who, and for questioning kids have just been forgotten, smushed together with a couple of other shows and completely dismissed. Because he really fought hard for it. Remember that lesbian adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream that everyone rightly adored when it aired on the BBC? That wouldn’t have happened without Davis first setting the groundwork with Doctor Who.
“Will Forte’s Last Man on Earth came out of the gate hot in its first season, with critics lauding it as tonally and structurally revolutionary. As the season progressed, some cooled, feeling that Forte’s Phil became a too-difficult-to-watch villain. However, in season two the show came back mightily, maintaining all that was special about the first season while giving it a little bit more heart. It remains one of the most unusual, unpredictable sitcoms in recent memory.” – Vulture
“…the show has continued to transverse sitcom conventions, not only in its
high concept structure, but the social commentary and emotional truths
it tackles.” – The Interrobang“There’s no question about it, these characters are ridiculous, and
there’s a good chance they’re the last people you want to spend the end of the world with. However, they also always feel like real people. They have flaws, they make dumb jokes, but mostly they make mistakes.
Forte’s comedy about the end of humanity has produced some of the most
dimensional humans of 2016.”
– Decider
“Sunday night’s episode put my doubts to rest, and cements The Last Man on Earth‘s
status as among the most imaginative, and best, shows on
television—comedy or drama. Indeed, this comedy moved me more than any
of the prestige dramas that air opposite it on Sunday-night cable
lineups have done so far.”
– Time
“The Last Man on Earth is as brave as it is entertaining; messy as it
is meticulous; and only as dark as it’s willing to look for the light.”