The Mail has traditionally been a supporter of the Conservatives and has endorsed this party in all recent general elections.
Before the outbreak of World War I, the paper was accused of warmongering when it reported that Germany was planning to crush the British Empire.
The Daily Mail has been awarded the National Newspaper of the Year 8 times from 1995-2019
an example of there more conservative views is their story on the suffragettes – The term “suffragette” was first used in 1906, as a term of derision by the journalist Charles E. Hands in the Mail to describe activists in the movement for women’s suffrage, in particular members of the WSPU. But the women he intended to ridicule embraced the term, saying “suffraGETtes” (hardening the ‘g’), implying not only that they wanted the vote, but that they intended to ‘get’ it.
Anti-refugee cartoon -Following the November 2015 Paris attacks, a cartoon in the Daily Mail by Stanley McMurtry (“Mac”) linked the European migrant crisis (with a focus on Syria in particular) to the terrorist attacks, and criticised the European Union immigration lawsfor allowing Islamist radicals to gain easy access into the United Kingdom. Despite being compared to Nazi propaganda by The New York Times,and criticised as “reckless xenophobia,” and racist, the cartoon received praise on the Mail Onlinewebsite. A Daily Mail spokesperson told The Independent: “We are not going to dignify these absurd comments which wilfully misrepresent this cartoon apart from to say that we have not received a single complaint from any reader”.
On 16 July 1993 the Mail ran the headline “Abortion hope after ‘gay genes’ finding”. Of the tabloid headlines which commented on the Xq28 gene, the Mail’s was criticised as “perhaps the most infamous and disturbing headline of all”.
the daily mail was accused of being sexist in 2014 after Emma Watson speech about the UN HeForShe campaign the mail was criticised for focusing on her dress and appearance rather than the contents of her speech
The Daily Mail’s medical and science journalism has been criticised by some doctors and scientists, accusing it of using minor studies to generate scare stories or being misleading. 2011, the Daily Mail published an article titled “Just ONE cannabis joint ‘can cause psychiatric episodes similar to schizophrenia’ as well as damaging memory“. Dr. Matt Jones, the lead author of the study that is cited in the article was quoted by Cannabis Law Reform as saying: “This study does NOT say that one spliff will bring on schizophrenia”.