Utter shoddy journalism.. The Daily Mirror used to be a great newspaper 30 years ago, but the Labour Party's decline has been followed by the Mirroros decline. It is a joke, a comic. Not worth anyones eyeballs.
Your "Franklin" quote demonstrates itself quite admirably.
It comes from the short story “The System of Dr. Tarr and Prof. Fether" by Edgar Allan Poe. Nowt to do with Ben Franklin