Misleading and misguided - yet another fail by the Daily Mail

I have been asked why I keep reading the Daily Mail online when it annoys me so much. Well the answer is deeply philosophical - not! But of course the bloody thing is still there whether I read it or not. Here it is rewriting facts and social history to suit some strange agenda of its own.

So Daily Mail, can we be quite clear that there is NO such place as Derry. Just because the republican residents of Londonderry prefer to abreviate the name does NOT make it so. And secondly LONDONDERRY is NOT going to be Britain's city of culture (whatever that is and however wildly inappropriate it might be) in 2013 or any other year. Because Londonderry is in Northern Ireland which is a part of the United Kingdom and not in Great Britain. You see (god help me it's like talking to a child), the United Kingdom comprises Great Britain AND Northern Ireland. Gettit!

If a newspaper cannot get these things right, what hope is there for us in the greater scheme of things?

And in the greater scheme of things, I also have to point out that the entire article is a piece of devious bullshit almost from beginning to end.

Anyone who had anything to do with Northern Ireland during the "troubles" knows that the IRA and Provisionals used sectarianism, the bombing campaigns and murders as cover for their criminal activities. A fact which was completely ignored by Tony Blair and his government in their haste to surrender "on terms."

Truthfully, I do not know whether the Republican Action Against Drugs (RAAD) is a separate organisation or a splinter group of the Provisional IRA, but I am absolutely certain that it is not any kind of genuine vigilante group aiming to reduce drug dealing in Northern Ireland. Quite the reverse! What it seems to be doing is effectively reducing the competition leaving the streets open to its own dealers.

I suspect that it is a splinter group intended to give an apparent distance from the Provisional IRA (please remember that you should read Sinn Féin whenever you see IRA - they are one and the same). And all of the pleas by Martin McGuinness to get members of the public to give up the names of RADD members is done in the certain knowledge that no one is going to risk a reprisal punishment for informing (usually kneecapping).

Another matter of concern here is that the Daily Mail has been increasingly using articles about superficial news stories which mask paid advertisements. It makes me wonder if the paper is publishing propaganda for the IRA. Somebody must be paying them to print this crap