He started this bizarre idea that the Labour party should be grovelling to the Mail, even when the paper has always seemed far less likely to either support or at least tolerate a Labour government than, say, The Sun. He spent years branding the Mail as 'typical middle England'. So it's inevitable that the rest of the Labour party will take the opportunity to show the remaining Blairites how wrong their glorious leader was.

Growing up I never read the mail on a regular basis, I was a Guardian reader, but as I recall, it was a step above the Mirror. Times have certainly changed.

It's not like dirty Dacre will stop bad mouthing the Grauniad at every opportunity because of this, and he certainly wouldn't give the Grauniad a similar platform to defend themselves in his paper.

For once, they made one of their vicious, libellous and fundamentally McCarthyite attacks on someone whose son was willing, able, and sufficiently powerful to fight back.

They thought of Ed Miliband, no doubt, as a wimp whom they could walk all over; but in this case, they unleashed more than they bargained for.

The immigrants, poor people, sick and disabled people, relatives of crime victims, innocent relatives of criminals, etc. etc. whom they constantly demonize do not have the same resources, unfortunately. Though the other time they miscalculated was when they tried to bully and demonize Polish immigrants, not realizing that this particular immigrant group had an unusually effective organization with good access to lawyers!

'Do kick people when they're down!' is the motto of the Daily Mail and similar right-wing media. Here it's the tabloids; in America, it is the talkshows.

... hit the nail on the head.