Those of you who know me – and you won’t even know that you know me, because I’m a super-secret covert bloggeur – will know that I have reasonably strong feelings towards the Daily Mail newspaper. My feelings are that it’s a vile, hate-filled spittoon of misanthropy and hypocrisy. I refer to it amongst my friends as ‘Fear and Loathing in Middle England’. If you’re from outside the UK and have never read it, and feel the urge to see what I’m making all this fuss about, please visit their website with Adblock on so that you don’t earn them any money.
So with that out of the way, here is the next instalment of my series ‘Making Reports More Fun‘. I give you: A report in the style of the Daily Mail.
Police Examine Computers of Immigrant Swan-Eating Ring
Experts (whose identities we’re suspiciously vague about) slammed Government immigration policy yesterday after a computer was delivered to the offices of the Computer Investigation Unit by DC 666 Sarah JONES at 1030 hours.
Introduction
Blonde DC Jones, a shapely mother of two who should have been at home with her children, seized the computer during a search of premises occupied by IMMIGRANT and ASYLUM SEEKER as part of an investigation into the organised eating of the Queen’s swans by asylum seekers, in an attempt to lower house prices and cosy up to Europe. The search followed intelligence from a bloke in the pub whose mate saw it happen once.
DC Jones wasn’t assisted by politically correct homosexual PCSOs, but we’ll mention them anyway just to plant the association in your mind. If they existed, they would probably have been standing powerless while a paedophile raided a school, because of health and safety regulations.
The remit of this analysis is therefore to ascertain whether the exhibit contains evidence relating to the following offences:
- The organised eating of swans (which belong to the Queen and only she’s allowed to eat them, according to the Tasty Swans Act 1657)
- Being foreign (under the Ban This Filth Act 1998)
- Withholding from sleazy newspapers titillating speculation about the private lives of anyone in the public eye, when any right-thinking person can see that it’s a critical issue of freedom of the press (Max Mosley Act 2008)
Additionally the analysis is to highlight any photographs of totty in their underwear, which we’ll print under some pretext while simultaneously tutting over declining moral standards.
Analysis
At 1200 hours on the same day, the hard drive was imaged and its contents categorised by a mathematically random process into two groups: files that cure cancer and files that cause cancer. Each file was then linked to a randomly chosen postgraduate student’s research paper, which on closer inspection turns out to say nothing about the file or its properties.
The reports in Appendix A are taken from an Encase ‘timeline’ view of modified, accessed and created times of files on the computer. These reports clearly show that a user of the computer:
- is habitually awake after 2200hrs, which is a definite sign that he’s up to no good
- is often away from the computer during daylight hours, which is prime swan-hunting time
- started playing an mp3 music file at 1052hrs on the 11th of November 2009. If this file had been played twice in its entirety at high volume in a large canyon, the echoes would possibly not have subsided until several seconds into the 2-minute silence to mark Armistice Day, in a deliberate snub to our war dead. (Please see page 12 for long-lens photos we took of distraught relatives at a military funeral. One of the widows is quite a stunner behind the tears so we’ve got a half-page spread of her!)
Conclusion
This report shows that the principle user of the computer is a wrong’un in too many ways to bother going into. Just take it from us, he looks shifty and he’s after your daughter. And I swear I could smell swan on his breath. Our advice in this matter is to stay in your house with all doors and windows locked, and don’t trust anyone. You just don’t know who’s out there these days, but you can be sure that they’re up to no good.
Should any further information be required, please contact us in writing and we’ll delete this report from our website and claim it was maliciously misinterpreted by the liberal-homosexual-feminist establishment and BBC.
See also:
The Daily Quail
The Daily Mail Oncological Ontology Project: A blog following the Daily Mail’s ongoing mission to divide all the inanimate objects in the world into those that cause or cure cancer.

Aidan
December 4, 2009
Another genius blog entry!
Hmm, I’m writing a report now…
Gretchen
January 19, 2010
Brilliant! I just accidentally came across this whilst doing some research on Leda and the Swan for uni (the picture you’ve used) and your report is absolutely spot on! I actually feel like I’ve read the Daily Mail now. Maybe I should do my next essay in the style of The Daily Mail….
happyasamonkey
January 19, 2010
Glad you liked it! I’d never heard of Leda and the Swan before I found it for that post, but it’s one of the most popular Google searches that people find my blog through. Which is kinda dishonest, I suppose.
You should definitely do your essay in Daily Mail stylee.
Nik
January 29, 2010
That was hilarious; you are officially my new hero
happyasamonkey
January 30, 2010
Thanks
I’m not wearing my underpants outside my trousers though.
ocameredesupraveghere
March 22, 2011
Hey guys, nice to be here! I love happyasamonkey.wordpress.com!