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== Red-top tabloids ==
* ''The Sun'' - AKA "The Currant Bun" in one of the better-known pieces of Cockney rhyming slang, or "The Scum" if you're not feeling as kind. Famously, home of the [[Page Three Stunna]], although it's not the only tabloid to do so. Also known for [[Sex Sells|using topless women]] to [https://web.archive.org/web/20100724143826/http://www.bloggerheads.com/page_3.asp sell propaganda]. Solidly conservative-right when it comes to politics, its populist working-class stance means this position is usually dressed-up as standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the common man, often unconvincingly. Supported the Conservatives under [[Margaret Thatcher]] and [[John Major]] before deciding to back Labour in 1997, 2001 and 2005 (in spite of spending much of this period attacking Labour Party policy in its editorials), it now{{when}} supports Cameron's revitalised Conservatives. One theory for the paper's changing party allegiance (unusual in a British newspaper) is that the paper doesn't want to be seen to back a loser—or rather, Murdoch is trying to get UK media ownership regulations relaxed. It may also have something to do with the Labour party's hard swing to the right during Blair's leadership.
:The ink comes off on your hands. Has been responsible for some of the most famous (or infamous) headlines of recent times, such as "Gotcha" (the sinking of ''General Belgrano'' in 1982 during [[The Falklands War]], although the original story merely thought it had been damaged), "It's The ''Sun'' Wot Won It" (after backing Major's Conservatives to a surprise 1992 General Election victory), and occasional superlatively convoluted [[Punny Headlines]] such as the football-related [[Mary Poppins|"Super Caley Go Ballistic, Celtic Are Atrocious"]]. Uses [[Bold Inflation]] a '''LOT'''. Created a free Polish-language edition, ''Polski Sun'', for the duration of Euro 2008. The last time{{when}} time they endorsed Labour they did it by blowing red smoke out of a chimney. You see, this Ratzinger fellow had received a [[The Pope|promotion]]...
** A useful tip would be not to buy/read or [[Berserk Button|talk positively about ''The Sun'' around Liverpool]], due to a particularly disgusting article they [[Blatant Lies|fabricated out of whole cloth]] which accused Liverpool fans of attacking victims of the 1989 Hillsborough football stadium disaster. You'll find it difficult to do this anyway; most newsagents in Liverpool refuse to stock it and nobody will take it, even with a free DVD or magazine stuffed in to lure them to buy it, nor can they even give it away for free. Twenty-two years on and the ''Sun'''s circulation in the city has never even begun to recover. It was ''that'' offensive.
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