“Culture” may not be the right category for this but hey…
Another nail in the coffin of British journalism. Though the Telegraph was hardly a paragon of unbiased reporting before.
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That’s terrible, but as you say the Torygraph has changed beyond recognition in recent years.
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Yes, it’s followed the path of the Tory party from decent to something like a100 year old man’s appendage - a useless organ.
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Bring back that paragon of journalistic honesty, The Daily Sport!
Sadly so, but both organs are already a cesspit of right wing propaganda.
Classic misinformation in the headline; a glance makes one think that the DT has been bought by the DM, whereas it’s still not (yet) a done deal. The BBC should know better.
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Be fair -‘Agrees to buy’ and ‘in talks..’ is by no means describing a ‘done deal’.
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As you prefer - thread title amended. 
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Maybe more as Badger would prefer.
Well let all who prefer the new thread title say “aye” 
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My beef is not with @ChrisMann 's thread title, but with the headline put up by the BBC.
It clearly says ‘Daily Mail publisher agrees to buy Daily Telegraph’, whereas nothing has (as yet) been signed.
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I am now “in talks” about an afternoon cup of tea.
Hopefully the outcome will be positive, and include milk.
ETA: I am happy report a successful conclusion to the talks, although I had to make the tea myself. 
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I can barely believe that 30 years ago, I , like my late parents, actually subscribed to this dreadful biased rag! The Daily mail seems the perfect marriage in it’s race to the bottom of journalistic integrity. Maybe a page 3 girl could boost sales?
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The Telegraph wasn’t so bad years ago - still a Tory paper but not as one sided as it has become.
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My parents were also D.M. readers. Then, some time in the '70’s they went Torygraph. It was a good paper in those days. Their foreign reporting was excellent.
My old dad was ecstatic one day, “Fellah! Your letter is letter of the day!” They used to put a box round the letter of the day. I’d written something about nuclear power. I can’t for the life of me recall what it might have been.
The col supp was quite good.Not a good as the Sun Times.
That Tina Brown has had a long and successful career in NYC was as a result of a miracle and the excellent performance under panic braking of a Citroen GS.
She was commissioned by the S.Tg col supp to write a piece about Barry Sheen, the m/cycle champ. I had a gig, when freelance assisting, with the photographer who was commissioned to do the pix.
Heading for Sheen’s Essex country res, we approached a roundabout at some speed. An HGV - tractor and trailer - slowly made its way onto the roundabout from the right. The photographer, gassing away, was oblivious to this until the last possible second.
Tina Brown curled up in her footwell and I was “So this is where it all ends …” when our man threw out all the anchors. The GS behaved impeccably, coming to a halt just as we were about to run under the trailer.
The photographer handed me a camera and said, “Wander round. Get some shots” The S.Tg. ran my pix of Sheen’s collection of silverware and the shredded remains of his leathers, pinned up like an animal skin on a wall in his den.
They were the leathers he was wearing when his back tyre burst at 180 mph on the main straight at Daytona, locking up the wheel. He bailed out before he ws thrown off, curled into a ball to prevent his arms and legs being ripped off and bounced 1/4 mile …
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Cool - I used to go and watch Barry Sheene, Ron Haslam, Kenny Roberts, Steve Parrish, Randy Mamola etc. at Brands Hatch for the Transatlantic Trophy. (ETA for non-bike fans this was in the 1980s).
I even got to see Mike Hawthorn race at Mallory Park, one of his last appearances I think.
Barry Sheene was mainly comprised of metal parts by the time he stopped racing, he crashed so many times.
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Indeed. I seem to recall that a whole body X-ray was included in the piece.
The main picture was of Sheen, his wife Steph [used to be a model], a couple of his racing bikes, set against a backdrop of his Royce, reg BSR 7. He told us that when he went to pick up his latest Royce he put the order in for the next.
He had a collection 125/250/500 Bultaco trail bikes, given to him by Mr Bulto after he raced for them. He wheeled them all out and said, " Go for it. Have a go. Any bike you like" I wimped out on the 125. Sheen did wheelies up and down the lawn on the 500, frequently going over backwards, yelling with laughter.
Really nice bloke.
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Yes. If you made allowance for the angle, it was fine. Some of the most savage attacks on the Tory gov of the day - I think they were going thru’ one of their periodic spasms of slease - was to be seen in the Telegraph editorials.
Oh yes we remember Stephanie!
Glad you got to meet the man!
I think I found both my jobs advertised in it’s Thursday job section back in the 80’s, so owe it that at least
Well that’s a plus!