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
Irish Daily Mail Dublin. British media analyst Roy Greenslade argued that falling sales are because whereas the British version of the "Daily Mail" acutely understands its readership, "None of that understanding of the culture, politics and genuine interests of the Irish people is evident in the pages of the Irish Daily Mail". By 2009 this policy had changed as it was offering Irish language wallcharts for schoolchildren, and most of its coverage was about Irish subjects, though it is frequently scathing about politicians. Irish columnists are contributing to the paper, with Rónán Mullen's column, for example, in the "Irish Daily Mail" since May