Dear Witchfinder General
I am writing to turn myself in as what your paper would consider a biased professor.
I discuss the details of refugee law with my students, whereas your paper referred to the “problem” of Jewish refugees “pouring into the country” and depicted recent asylum seekers as rats.
I ask students to look at EU and human rights laws on LGBT equality, whereas your paper referred to “abortion hope” after a “gay gene” was found.
I discuss the risk that far right extremism poses to human rights, whereas your paper cheered “hurrah to the blackshirts”; and I outline the importance of the rule of law, whereas your paper shrieks that judges it disagrees with are “enemies of the people”.
Despite all this, I can only dream of receiving the huge sums from the EU that your editor Paul Dacre has obtained. _
I can only salute your paper’s commitment to the truth, in spite of its many losses and settlements in libel cases and the frequent readers’ complaints it provokes.
Yours sincerely,
Steve Peers
Professor of Law, University of Essex
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/satire/professors-letter-daily-mail-going-viral/27/10/
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