Showing posts with label Richard Desmond. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard Desmond. Show all posts

Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Daily Express: 'A bloody awful newspaper..'


Prince Philip once said, “The Daily Express is a bloody awful newspaper, full of lies, scandal and imagination”. For good measure he added, “It is a vicious paper.”

He was right, wasn’t he?

Tuesday, 20 October 2015

More rhubarb from the Daily Express


Don't swallow everything you read.

Today’s Daily Express front page shouted, ‘RHUBARB CAN SAVE YOUR LIFE’. But the claim turns out to be rubbish.

Tuesday, 11 August 2015

Daily Express business model: selling prejudice and bigotry?

• Imagine Richard Desmond, owner of the Daily Express, pitching his business to the Dragons' Den

Imagine an imaginary scene in Dragons' Den, the popular BBC TV programme where millionaires decide if they'd like to invest in the business plans of 'wannabe' entrepreneurs.

And here comes Richard Desmond into the Den with an investment opportunity for his newspaper called the Daily Express"So what’s your idea, Richard?" asks one of the Dragons.