I know they’re Daily Express readers, so they’re always going to struggle to keep up, but what is it with posting a newspaper front page labelled 2023 on Dec 16 2025 ?
I just did a quick check and that page isn’t from Dec this year (who knows when it is from ?).
By the way, Tesco is advertising 360g Dairy Milk at £4.25, 300g of Nescafe Original at £7.25 and 1 litre of their own brand olive oil for £7.00 and apparently you get an extra virgin with that. The total’s 26% less than his £25.
You might make a great journalist Graeme, but you’d never get a job at the Express 
I was sent on a ‘Dealing with the Media’ course at work once. It was fun. The woman (a real Fleet St, as was, journalist) started out by asking us all what the job of a journalist was. We suggested some obvious things. In the end she said “The job of a journalist is to sell newspapers/fill air time. They do this by writing stories that people want to read/hear. If they can be true stories then, well, that’s a bonus.”. Then she said “They are not your friends and, unless they need you more than you need them, there is no such thing as ‘off the record’.”.
She went on to say that you should give a journalist your points in descending order of importance because who knows when they’ll stop listening/lose interest. “Remember - most important first”. She’d already done exactly that with the first things she’d said to us.
I had the opposite experience with several employers. After their boundless greed and incompetence had seen them stamp on their own dicks yet again there would be an all-hands broadcast of “do not, under any circumstances, speak to the media” 
Yeah, our Press and PR Office very much liked to manage our media exposure and there were some subjects which were generally off limits (try your best not to discuss what stuff costs, unless we’d just landed a big contribution/‘investment’ from foreigners). But in the end the journos always wanted to get the techie/nerd on mic and/or in front of the camera and P&PR just had to cross their fingers and hope that he/she wouldn’t be steered too far off piste.
You and your pesky “facts”!
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