Daily Mail fact checking, sensationalism, and flat-out fabrication". The independent Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC News), in its April 2017 assessment of the newspaper, wrote: "Has a strong conservative bias and has a poor track record with fact checkers" and rated it as right bias, with factual reporting "mixed", but did not reduce it to the questionable sources/fake news category. "Up and Running" is a strip distributed by Knight Features and "Fred Basset" has followed the life of the dog of the same name in a two-part strip in the "Daily Mail" since 8 July 1963. The long-running "Teddy Tail" cartoon strip, was
Daily Mail referring to the violence against Jews and Communists rather than the detention of political prisoners. Rothermere and the "Mail" were also editorially sympathetic to Oswald Mosley and the British Union of Fascists. Rothermere wrote an article titled "Hurrah for the Blackshirts" in January 1934, praising Mosley for his "sound, commonsense, Conservative doctrine", and pointing out that: "Young men may join the British Union of Fascists by writing to the Headquarters, King's Road, Chelsea, London, S.W." "The Spectator" condemned Rothermere's article commenting that, "... the Blackshirts, like the Daily Mail, appeal to people unaccustomed to thinking. The average Daily Mail reader