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 The Telegraph is sometimes nicknamed the //Torygraph// (for obvious reasons), the //Hurleygraph// (for its obsession with Liz Hurley), the //Maily Hello!graph// (due to its habit of using any excuse to illustrate a story with a pretty girl, and the fact that it recently absorbed a large number of [[Daily Mail]] writers), or the //Telavivagraph// (due to its pro-Israel stance).
+The Telegraph was first published in 1855, during the Crimean War, which was reported on by their young cub reporter Bill Deedes. The paper's first editorial allegedly ran -
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+"This newspaper refuses to take an ideologically biased stance. No, we shall consider each individual issue and policy separately, in a balanced manner, before concluding that the Tory Party is the only choice to lead this country into a joyous, prosperous and happy state, at peace with itself - and at war with everyone else."//
+Recently the //Telegraph// had a genuine scoop, the MPs' expenses scandal. Half the British media has fainted from the shock of not having Liz Hurley and fruity exam results girls on the cover, and the Telegraph is wringing this out for all its worth, putting new minor revelations from the expenses claims on its cover practically every day for months.
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+**[[British Newspapers]]**