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25 June 2005

Sadistic, debauched and full of hate: Ruth Dudley Edwards on tabloid newspapers and trash TV

‘I had a look at my 89-year-old mum’s Sunday People,’ a chap called Fred observed to me on Wednesday last week, ‘and it’s just soft porn. I asked her why she still bought it and she said because she’d always bought it, like she always buys the Mirror and votes Labour. My mum likes her rut.’

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