[DoughtyOne]

I thought just about all British papers were pro socialist.

Is this typical for the Daily Mail?

It nailed the problem as I see it.

[Tenniel2]

Comparatively speaking, they are. However, there's a spectrum, from the Telegraph (often known, affectionately and not, as the "Torygraph") and the Daily Mail on the relative-right to the Independent and the Spectator on the center-left to the might-as-well-be-published-in-Moscow Guardian on the left-left-left-of-left. (The Sun is an equal-opportunity naughty-gossip pot-shotter, more interested in decorating Page 3 than in taking any hard political positions.)

[Oztrich Boy]

Unlike the US, where the press is politically neutral, UK papers all have a definitely understood political position

Here is a guide