You *should* read it: it's very entertaining, in a "I'm reading between my fingers in horror" kind of way.

I'm becoming increasingly convinced that the Daily Mail is a situationist prank, or an ongoing swiftian satire designed to mock the narrow-mindedness of not-in-my-back-yard i'm-not-racist-but types. The alternative explanation - that the most influential paper in the country is *serious* - is too ridiculous to even consider.

Read Peter Hitchens and hand the rest over to your significant other. Females love the Daily Mail - even the right-on sort who use 'middle class' as a term of abuse don't seem able to resist it.

Yeah, yeah, but A Handful Of Dust, eh? Great film.

Laban's right, it's a mighty force when it comes to female readership - the most successful women's section of all, I believe. I've no idea why, as the constant message from Femail is "you're fat and ugly, and you must spend money to address this now".

I like Kristin Scott-Thomas.