Abstract
On the day of Ed Miliband’s address to the Labour conference, the newspaper’s ‘star’ political columnist, Richard Littlejohn, wrote ‘clearly some of his [Ralph Miliband’s] discredited ideas have rubbed off on his youngest son.' In the article, Littlejohn reprises his own days as an industrial correspondent in the 1970s; painting a highly contentious picture of a Britain hobbled by high taxes, failing industries and dominated by ‘union barons’. And he warned that Miliband was planning ‘a re-run of the tax and spend disaster movie which got us into this mess in the first place. The Mail’s fury around Miliband’s father continued for a number of weeks, involving the paper in some odd contortions. A related way that the Mail framed Miliband’s ‘otherness’ was to emphasise his background as the son of a Hampstead intellectual who lived a life very different from that enjoyed by the average Labour voter.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Culture Wars |
Subtitle of host publication | The Media and the British Left |
Editors | James Curran, Ivor Gaber, Julian Petley |
Place of Publication | United Kingdom |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Chapter | 11 |
Pages | 218-239 |
Number of pages | 22 |
Edition | 2 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781315406176 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781138223028 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2018 |
Externally published | Yes |