Daily Express
The Daily Express is today a tabloid newspaper in the United Kingdom founded in 1900 as a broadsheet. In February 2019, it had an average daily circulation of 315,142.[1]
Express Newspapers also publishes the very down-market tabloid newspapers the Daily Star and Daily Star Sunday aimed at the working classes.
Politics
The paper is a relatively safe option to read for lower-case conservatives. It has a crusader as a logo, in the face of political correctness and is generally anti-Islam. On 30 August 1989 it carried a headline stating: "Blacks and Asians should be given government cash to return to their country of origin, say a majority of Britons" and another on 4 October 1991 said: "Immigration – The ever-open gateway to chaos." It has also held petitions to end unlimited immigration,[2]
It now features a column from Nigel Farage, who occasionally helps filter nationalistic and populist views into the population via the Brexit campaigns, despite editors' limiting what he can write. The paper's editorial stances have often been seen as aligned to the UK Independence Party (UKIP), Euroscepticism and other right-wing factions including the few remaining right-wingers in the fake Conservative Party.[3][4][5]
Since February 2018 the Express newspaper group is expected to move firmly to The Left.
Proprietors
It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the Sunday Express, was launched in 1918. It was for some decades owned by Lord Beaverbrook, a Scots-Canadian-British Presbyterian business tycoon and government minister associated with the Liberal Unionist Party. It was acquired in 2000 by the Jewish tycoon Richard Desmond through his holding company Northern & Shell Media, and began to promote a largely neocon line on foreign affairs. On 9 February 2018, the left-wing Trinity Mirror media group, notorious for its Far-Left libellous newspapers, bought the Daily Express parent company, Northern and Shell Media, in a deal worth £126.7m.[6]
References
- ↑ National newsbrand ABCs: Full figures for February 2019. Retrieved on 15 March 2018.
- ↑ http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/441191/Daily-Express-Crusade-finds-75-000-say-NO-to-more-EU-migrants
- ↑ Hall, Macer (17 April 2015). Express Newspapers Chairman Richard Desmond gives £1.3m to UKIP. Daily Express. Retrieved on 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "Express owner Richard Desmond gives UKIP £1m". BBC News. 16 April 2015. Archived from the original on 4 February 2016. https://web.archive.org/web/20160204154831/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32340976. Retrieved 18 May 2015.
- ↑ Daily Express urges British public to vote Ukip for a patriotic future. Daily Express (6 May 2015). Retrieved on 18 May 2015.
- ↑ "Daily Mirror owner to buy Express titles" (in en-GB). BBC News. 2018-02-09. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-42991304.
