Just a quick mild irritation … I thought the International Express (the international edition of the Daily Express newspaper in Britain) was mainly confined to the expat villas of Magaluf. How wrong. A friend of mine from Shanghai managed to pick a copy up from the city’s Hongqiao airport and together we revelled in being intensely irritated about how far east it had travelled. After I read the first page, I even thought how nice it would be to be back nestling in the bosom of Xinhua (if commenter ’swb’ is still reading and sees this as an opportunity to launch his dummy across the room wailing “I told you so”, I can only wallow in despair).
IMMIGRANTS ‘ARE RUINING THE BRITISH WAY OF LIFE’, took up a third of the front page. Ok, it was quoting a report by “independent think-tank” Civitas, which was also carried by many other media sources, but the choice of photograph was just ridiculous. It pictured an owner of a tasty looking Polish Delicatessen posing proudly outside her shop with the caption “SIGN OF THE TIMES: There has been a massive increase in the number of Poles in Britain”. I’m sure she was delighted to see where that photo ended up.
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