Big fat gypsy stereotyping

THE children of traveller families are to get special treatment in schools if they misbehave. Under Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance, teachers are being told to be sympathetic to traveller parents because they struggle with confidence issues and are put off attending school meetings to discuss their children’s behaviour. Fair enough. How does the Daily Star report the issue? Sympathetically and with a high degree of understanding?

The strewth will out

ACCORDING to the Daily Star, Shelia is Australian slang for woman – or a term of endearment, usually directed at a woman by an Australian bloke. It used to be Sheila – but times have changed, apparently . . .

Icy blasts from experts in warm offices

IN comfortable offices where the temperature hovers at 76F and the aroma of fresh coffee hangs in the air like the scent of hay on a May breeze, men and women who have never held a shovel in their hands are furiously hammering keyboards and pouring bile on the people who keep this country moving

Most incoherent headline of the day

FROM the Daily Star, November 2, 2010:

Most entertaining headline of the day

FROM the Daily Star, September 3, 2010:

A Teerr – by Wilfred Owen

BASED on a headline in the Daily Star, May 19, 2010:

Wrong side of the language barrier

AS the Daily Star so conveniently illustrates, if English is not your firs