A return to their roots

Michael Foot called it 'The Forgers' Gazette', but to quote the late Labour leader might leave one open to being smeared from The Daily Mail as an incorrigible opponent of all that makes Britain great.  The broadsides against Ralph Miliband 'The man who hated Britain' and his 'evil legacy' are, of course, intended to be an attack on Ed Miliband, not just for being left-wing, not just for being a Labour member but for trying to draw the toxin from British journalism - by broadly supporting the Leveson Enquiry's findings - whose mainstream elements are notorious the world-over for their savagery and cant.
The Wail's hatchet job on Miliband Snr is actually a result of being frightened by Labour's poll bounce following their conference as if this was some great surprise.  The Liberal Democrats had a rise in the polls following their annual get-together, as does almost any caucus that garners increased media attention.  But the newspaper has blundered on a colossal scale as far from denting Labour, this story is overshadowing the Tory conference and harming any poll bounce the Conservatives would otherwise have received, much as Godfrey Bloom and his 'sluts' remark 'destroyed' UKIP's time in the sun recently (according to Nigel Farage).  Secondly, it makes Miliband even more determined to bring in press regulation ('an evil' because the Wail believes in the right of barbaric freedom of speech for itself but no-one else, allowing Miliband a right-of-reply but only surrounded by the most intemperate and vituperative articles and language) and less likely to be 'got at' by more lily-livered colleagues.  Thirdly, it shines a very uncomfortable spotlight on the intensely private Paul Dacre, editor-in-chief of the 'middle market' rag.  Far from the flamboyant Piers Morgan and Rebekah Brooks, Dacre prefers to operate in the shadows like a Morlock somehow transported back from the future.  In this recent brou-ha-ha, unlike editors who are to the forefront of defending their papers, like Alan Rusbridger and the Snowden imbroglio, Dacre sent his deputy editor to defend the Wail's handling of the affair.  It leaves him open to the charges of being a bully and a coward, terms repeated throughout yesterday and today and the more times they are said, the more they tarnish this silent emperor, as befell Tiberius Caesar.  In terms of proportion, I would say that Dacre has more hate in his little finger than Ralph Miliband had in his whole body.  Fourthly, the Wail's unsavoury past of supporting British Fascists, Hitler, the Nazis and of Jew-baiting is dredged up in regard to who really hated Britain and its values most.  Up until 1945, the Wail was virulently anti-semitic until images of the death camps came back and it was commercial suicide to continue such an editorial line and so the venom was switched towards other 'outsiders'.  The current Lord Rothermere, owner of the newspaper, therefore suffers taint by association with his fascist-leaning forebears, something which I am sure will not have endeared Dacre to him.
Though the Wail claims, the 'sins of the father' should not be visited upon the son, they will make an exception for Ed Miliband - some might call that hypocrisy.  By saying Ralph Miliband 'disapproved' (note, a climbdown from 'hate') of the the monarchy, the Church of England and the army, institutions which must be supported by anyone who loves their country in the Wail's view, he was apparently at odds with British values.  One can't say republicans are consumed with hate, they just prefer the head of state to be an elected non-entity.  Even if Ralph Miliband had believed in a higher power, he would have been an observant Jew and therefore unlikely to 'approve' of the Church, which had partly been responsible for anti-semitism.  And throughout the 1960s and 1970s, there were rumours of a military coup in response to crises in Rhodesia and domestically.  Of course, the Wail would have been at the forefront of supporting military strongmen, but Miliband and others of decency would have found this an affront to British values.
Then there was the lie that socialism=Marxism=Communism and to be a socialist in the Wail's sorry mind is to support the the brutality of the Communist Bloc.  Marxism and Marxist democracy are mulit-faceted theories and very different to the Leninist-Stalinist creed that evolved in the USSR.  But the spirit of Joe McCarthy is alive in the Wail.
Essentially, the newspaper has gone back to its roots in attacking Jews.  It's prejudice and its nastiness show a true hatred for British moderation and its pollutes our politics with its lies and smears.  The people who run the Wail are the ones who hate Britain really.