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[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I hadn't heard about it being the leading on line newspaper. I know there's now a lot of Americans (or people in the USA) commenting on the site.
I used to comment myself to see how many red arrows I could get in the shortest amount of time. As you say, there seems to be a wider readership on line than the bought paper version now. Wider as in more broad minded.

[Pinhead]

Perhaps this is where all the News of the World readers went. I also find that some people tend to read the papers that make them feel comfortable in a complex and uncetain world by giving them easy black and white soltions or opinions to everything. The Mail is one of these . . .

[Spindles]

As the yogmeister mentions, however, the mail online is NOT the Daily Heil.  It is more a cross between OK magazine and the weekly world news, with "celebrity" stories and shock crime stories being the main fair.  Not really the bigoted editorial commentary on current affairs that makes up the newspaper's fair.  To be fair though, there is usually at least 1 "illegal immigrant" based story per day and plenty of "look at this family on benefits and hate them" stories designed to sow their usual brand of hatred.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

The on line version still brings the 'hang 'em high' brigade for any misdemeanour - especially if you happen to be an immigrant. Kind of clashes with the afore mentioned more liberal views expressed about legalising drugs that is also expressed on the site.