What is the answer?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.express.co...s-definate-next-year-

Just as you have got over the immediate threat of global warming, news that Swine flu isn't as serious as they first thought, and the streets of the UK were at last safe from terrorist attack thanks to our involvement in Afghanistan.

They now warn us of definite Mumbai style attacks in the New Year.

What is the answer?

Due to our troops protecting the streets of other countries, perhaps it not now time to re-introduce the 'Home Guard'? I have a spare broomstick and kitchen knife.(they don't like the cold steel up em! you know)

[jno]

Express readers seem to be pointing this out at the end of the story, ahmskunnirt. If they're more literate than the journalists are, maybe they should graduate to a proper newspaper.

But note the difference between what the headline says and what the story says:

He said: “Before, there has been speculation. Now we are getting what appears to be a definite plot to carry out a firearms attack on London.”

'What appears to be a definite plot' is a long way from 'definite attack', however you spell it.

I might have published a link to this website today already, but here's another analysis of the way the Express papers sort of stretch the truth until it isn't actually the truth any more:

http://tabloid-watch....and-truth-issues.html

[anotheoldgit]

ahmskunnirt

Already pointed out, in the readers views.

But don't be too downhearted continue to wear your cap and gown, whilst referring to your Oxford English Dictionary.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// The Express papers sort of stretch the truth until it isn't actually the truth any more ///

You are a fine one to talk about stretching the truth.

Perhaps you only believe what you want to believe in a paper that you yourself trusts?

Well what about the Times where the story was reported originally?

http://www.timesonlin...me/article6962867.ece

[jno]

The Times does not say an attack is definate, just that a plot is (or rather, that the pollice think it is).

I still have a copy somewhere of The Times from just after 9/11with a front page headline reading 'Mullah Omar captured'. I'm still waiting for that one to prove accurate. Don't believe all you read in the papers, even in The Times.

[123everton]

With reference to the link, I always thought the plural of thesaurus was thesaureses or even thesauri?