That's why they call it the Deadly Excess. It's lost what little foaming credibility it had since it was bought by the pornographer Richard Desmond, and it was weaned off its recent obsession with Maddy McCann by being forced to pay a vast sum to avoid being skinned alive for libel; they simply made the stories up.

Desmond is no ideologue; he prints what he thinks will sell, and he thinks that wog- bashing will sell his rag. His instincts may well be false- the Excess has lost an eighth of its readershit in the last two years.