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4Taylor, The Reluctant Press Lord.
5Taylor, An Unlikely Hero.
6ibid.
7David English, ‘The Editor of the Daily Mail talks to the Tory leader in her only major interview of the campaign’, Daily Mail, 17 April 1979.
8‘It’s history – a woman takes over No 10. Prime Minister Maggie!’, Daily Mail, 4 May 1979.
9David English, ‘We Fought Them, We Beat Them and We Shall Keep On Fighting Them’, Daily Mail, 1 April 1981.
10Author interview with Brian Freemantle, former Daily Mail foreign editor, 25 March 2014.
11Daniel J. Wakin, ‘Rev. Sun Myung Moon, Self-Proclaimed Messiah Who Built Religious Movement, Dies at 92’, New York Times, 2 September 2012.
12James Gibbins, ‘Beggars in bowlers’, Daily Mail, 22 May 1978.
13James Gibbins, ‘On Which the Sun Never Sets’, Village Voice, 17 July 1978.
14James Gibbins, ‘Now Jim Plays the Iron Man’, Daily Mail, 31 May 1978.
15James Gibbins, ‘Abraham Carter . . . ! The latest bizarre scheme to save his face’, Daily Mail, 27 June 1978.
16James Gibbins, ‘On Which the Sun Never Sets’, Village Voice, 17 July 1978.
17James Gibbins, ‘I Was Mugged by the Washington Post’, Washington Post, 23 July 1978.
18James Gibbins, ‘The Press’, Spectator, 29 September 1978.
19‘The Press: “Scoop” by Patrick Marnham’, Spectator, 29 September 1978 (via the Spectator archive – http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/30th-september-1978/15/the-press)
20Author interview with Simon Winchester, former Daily Mail bureau chief in New York City, 12 January 2014.
21ibid.
22Author interview with senior Mailman ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
23‘“Bullets that shattered a myth”, David English goes back to Dallas where 25 years ago as a White House Correspondent he reported on the murder of President Kennedy’, Daily Mail, 22 November 1988.
24Author interview with Brian Freemantle, 25 March 2014.
25‘“Bullets that shattered a myth”, David English goes back to Dallas where 25 years ago as a White House Correspondent he reported on the murder of President Kennedy’, Daily Mail, 22 November 1988.
26Author interview with David Eliades, former Daily Express reporter and friend of David English, Peter Dacre and Paul Dacre, 13 November 2014.
27ibid.
28Author interview with Brian Freemantle, 25 March 2014.
29Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
30Alun John, ‘Birth of a National’, Gentlemen Ranters – the last pub in Fleet Street, 13 July 2007. www.gentlemenranters.com/19.html.
31ibid.
32Author interview with Susan Douglas, former senior Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday editorial executive, 26 March 2014.
33Alun John, ‘Birth of a National’, Gentlemen Ranters – the last pub in Fleet Street, 13 July 2007. www.gentlemenranters.com/19.html.
34‘Tributes to Sir David, a Giant of Journalism’, Daily Mail, 11 June 1998.
35Author interview with Richard Addis, former senior Daily Mail editorial executive, 6 October 2014.
36Dacre, ‘The Debt We Journalists Owe Sir David’, Daily Mail, 11 June 1998.
37S. J. Taylor, An Unlikely Hero.
Chapter 11
1Evidence: London Electoral Register for the Southgate Constituency 1955 and 1965, plus the passenger manifest for the Cunard ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth from New York, landing in Southampton on 6 March 1958 with Peter and Joan Dacre and their five sons: Paul, Clive, Martin, Nigel and Myles.
2Lauren Collins, ‘The Wayward Press: Mail Supremacy – the newspaper that rules Britain’, New Yorker, 2 April 2012.
3Peter Dacre obituary, Daily Telegraph, 25 March 2003.
4ibid.
5Paul Dacre, quoted in Penny Junor, Home Truths: Life Around My Father, HarperCollins, 2002.
6Author interview with Barry Norman, 13 November 2014.
7Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
8Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
9Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
10‘Profile: That’s enough fawning on the Tories – Ed: Paul Dacre, a fresh stamp on the “Daily Mail”’, Independent, 3 October 1992.
11Author interview (via email) with Michael Sadgrove, school contemporary of Paul Dacre and now the Very Reverend Dean of Durham, 17 December 2014.
12Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
13Pearson Phillips, ‘This POISON spread in the name of peace’, Daily Mail, 19 March 1968.
14Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
15‘The man who hates liberal Britain’, by Peter Wilby, New Statesman, 20 December 2013.
16Paul Dacre delivers the Cudlipp Lecture, London College of Communication, 22 January 2007.
17‘Dacre’s press gang, the real Brian Clough and my time with the Foxes’, Jon Holmes diary, New Statesman, 13 January 2013.
18‘Union News Wins Student Paper of the Year’, Union News, 2 May 1969.
19‘Paul Dacre’, Profile with Mark Coles, BBC Radio Four, 6 October 2013.
20Author interview with Michael Brennan, 15 January 2014.
21Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
22Author interview with Michael Brennan, 15 January 2014.
23Gentlemen Ranters – the last pub in Fleet Street, 5 October 2007, www.gentlemenranters.com.
24ibid.
25Author interview with Anthea Disney, 10 January 2014.
26Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
27Author interview with Anthea Disney, 10 January 2014.
28Marriage certificate, 24 September 1979, Peter Dacre and Ann Elizabeth Jarvis. Sheffield Registry Office.
29Author interview with Phil Finn Jr (now deceased), former Daily Express staff reporter and Daily Mail freelance in New York City, and his wife Anne-Marie, 11 November 2014.
30Gentlemen Ranters – the last pub in Fleet Street, 5 October 2007, www.gentlemenranters.com.
31Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
32Author interview with Phil Finn Jr and his wife Anne-Marie, 11 November 2014.
33As told to the author by George Gordon and Michael Brennan, January 2014.
34Author interview with Michael Brennan, 15 January 2014.
35ibid.
36ibid.
37Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
38Author interview with Simon Winchester, 12 January 2014.
39‘One step away from public execution’, from Paul Dacre in New York, Daily Mail, 26 October 1979.
40‘It’s a bedroom farce’, from Paul Dacre in New York, Daily Mail, 20 October 1979.
41Author interview with David Eliades, 13 November 2014.
42Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
43Author interview with George Gordon, former Daily Mail bureau chief in New York and long term Mail reporter, 13 January 2014.
44ibid.
45‘America column by Paul Dacre, signing off, Goodbye to all this’, Daily Mail, 10 October 1980.
46Author interview with George Gordon, former Daily Mail bureau chief in New York and long term Mail reporter, 13 January 2014.
47Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
48Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
49Author interview with Tim Miles, former Daily Mail reporter, crime reporter, chief reporter and news editor, 8 December 2014.
50ibid.
51ibid.
52ibid.
53Author interview with Stewart Payne, former Daily Mail reporter, 19 January 2015.
54ibid.
55Author interview with Gill Swain, former Daily Mail reporter, 20 January 2015.
57Author interview with ‘Barry’, former senior Mailman, 4 July 2015.
58Author interview with Stewart Payne, 19 January 2015.
59ibid.
60ibid.
61ibid.
62Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
63Author interview with Stewart Payne, 19 January 2015.
64Author interview with Gill Swain, 20 January 2015.
65Author interview with former Mailman ‘Glen’, 29 August 2016.
66Author interview with Tim Miles, 8 December 2014.
67ibid.
68ibid.
69Author interview with Stewart Payne, 19 January 2015.
70Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
71Author interview with Susan Douglas, former senior Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday editorial executive, 26 March 2014.
72‘Profile: That’s enough fawning on the Tories – Ed: Paul Dacre, a fresh stamp on the Daily Mail’, Independent, 3 October 1992.
73Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
74ibid.
75ibid.
76Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
77Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
Chapter 12
1‘Edited Highlights’, Spectator, 6 February 1988.
2Ian Wooldridge, ‘Zola Deserves Warm Welcome After All We Put Her Through’, Daily Mail, 9 April 2003.
3Author interview with Stewart Payne, 19 January 2015.
4Author interview with Vyvyan Harmsworth, senior member of the Harmsworth clan (he is descended from Vyvyan Harmsworth, brother of Alfred and Harold Harmsworth, the founders of the Daily Mail ) and former Head of Corporate Affairs at Daily Mail and General Trust, 2 December 2016.
5Author interview with Susan Douglas, 26 March 2014.
6ibid.
7ibid.
8Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
9Andrew Alderson, ‘At the court of King David – David English’, Sunday Times, 12 July 1992.
10Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
11Author interview with Stewart Payne, 19 January 2015.
12Author interview with ‘Barry’, 4 July 2015.
13Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
14Author interview with Gill Swain, 20 January 2015.
15‘Profile: That’s enough fawning on the Tories – Ed: Paul Dacre, a fresh stamp on the Daily Mail’, Independent, 3 October 1992.
16Dave Hill, ‘Major’s Knight Editor’, Guardian, 9 March 1992.
17David English, ‘This is my New Crusade’, Daily Mail, 29 April 1988.
18‘Profile: Hard news man switches channels: Sir David English: The Former Daily Mail editor reveals to Jason Nisse that he has lost none of his competativeness’, Independent on Sunday, 7 Novemeber 1993.
19‘Sir Geoffrey the Assassin’, Daily Mail, 14 November 1990.
20‘Majestic Maggie’, Lynda Lee-Potter column, Daily Mail, 14 November 1990.
21‘Too Damn Good for the Lot of Them’, Daily Mail, 23 November 1990.
22Author interview with Cyril ‘Chris’ Rees, 17 November 2014.
23Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
24Author interview with Anthea Disney, 10 January 2014.
25Author interview with Tony Burton, 15 November 2014.
26‘John Leese, brilliant editor who achieved success with the highest of standards’, Daily Mail, 1 March 1991.
27Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
28ibid.
29Graham Lord, ‘John Junor: “A bigot and blatant hypocrite who lost 2.5m sales over 32 years”’, Press Gazette, 10 April 2013.
30Penny Junor, Home Truths: Life Around My Father, HarperCollins, 2002.
31Graham Lord, ‘John Junor: “A bigot and blatant hypocrite who lost 2.5m sales over 32 years”’, Press Gazette, 10 April 2013.
32Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
33Author interview with Anne de Courcy, former Daily Mail and Evening Standard writer, 10 January 2014.
34Taylor, An Unlikely Hero.
35Author interview with ‘Kevin’, Standard and Mail writer, 9 October 2014.
36Author interview with ‘Kerry’, Standard staffer, 30 October 2013.
37Author interview with Andrew Knight, former executive chairman of News International (owner of The Times), via email, 27, 28 and 29 February 2016.
38ibid.
39Rupert Murdoch at the Leveson Inquiry, 26 April 2012, sourced from the National Archive’s web archive.
40Andrew Alderson, ‘At the court of King David – David English’, Sunday Times, 12 July 1992.
41ibid.
42Author interview with Andrew Knight, 27 February 2016.
43‘New Chairman for Associated Newspapers and a New Editor for the Daily Mail After 21 Years’, Daily Mail, 11 July 1992.
44Andrew Alderson, ‘At the court of King David – David English’, Sunday Times, 12 July 1992.
45ibid.
46Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
Chapter 13
1Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
2Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
3Author interview with ‘Duncan’, 6 October 2014.
4Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
5‘Profile: Hard news man switches channels: Sir David English: The Former Daily Mail editor reveals to Jason Nisse that he has lost none of his competativeness’, Independent on Sunday, 7 Novemeber 1993.
6Author interview with ‘Duncan’, former senior Mailman, 9 October 2014.
7Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
8Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
9Author interview with George Gordon, 13 January 2014.
10Jason Lewis, ‘Abortion hope after “gay genes” findings’, Daily Mail, 16 July 1993.
11‘Gay gene anger’, Andy Seale and Miss M. M. Rees, Daily Mail, letters page, 22 July 1993.
12Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
13Author interview with Jane Kelly, former Daily Mail feature writer, 9 December 2013.
14Author interview with ‘Duncan’, 9 October 2014.
15Author interview with ‘Roy’, former Daily Mail feature writer, 11 November 2013.
16Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
17Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
18‘Coming tomorrow, the Daily Mail ’s fabulous new WEEKEND magazine’, Friday, 15 October 1993.
19‘Awards hat-trick for the brilliant Mail’, Daily Mail, 17 February 1996.
20Conrad Black, A Matter of Principle, McClelland & Stewart, 2011.
21Satish Sekar and Paul Peachey, ‘Spate of racist stabbings in Eltham had gone unpunished’, Independent, 4 January 2012.
22‘Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre “met Stephen Lawrence”’, BBC London, 27 January 2012.
23Bill Hagerty, ‘Paul Dacre: the zeal thing’, British Journalism Review, Vol. 13, No. 3, 2002.
24‘MURDERERS’, Daily Mail, 14 February 1997.
25Author interview with long-term Mail man, 12 January 2015.
26‘Video: Paul Dacre, Daily Mail Editor, on the risks he and the Mail ran to secure justice for Stephen Lawrence’, MailOnline, 4 January 2012.
27Author interview with Tim Miles, 8 December 2014.
28Paul Dacre, ‘A glorious day for justice: How the Mail ’s monumental risk could have put editor Paul Dacre in court . . . but instead did “a huge amount of good and made a little bit of history”’, Daily Mail, 4 January 2012.
29‘Triumph of
the middle classes: The Daily Mail ’s proprietor shares his thoughts on the election with Philip Stephens’, Financial Times, 28 April 1997.
30Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
31David English, ‘Tony at Our Table’, Spectator, October 1995.
32ibid.
33ibid.
34ibid.
35Viscount Rothermere, Vere Harmsworth, newspaper proprietor, ‘castaway’ on Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio Four, 14 April 1996.
36ibid.
37‘The Battle for Britain’, Daily Mail, Comment, 15 April 1997.
38Daily Mail, 30 April 1997.
39ibid.
40Roy Greenslade, ‘18 years of certainty, 16 days of doubt’, Guardian, 17 May 1997.
41David Hughes, ‘The Great Don’t Know Factor’, Daily Mail, 1 May 1997.
42‘I’d like to vote for the Tories, but . . .’ ‘After voting Labour in 1997, I want to vote Tory in the next General Election . . .’ Lynda Lee-Potter column, 8 October 2003.
43Roy Greenslade, ‘18 years of certainty, 16 days of doubt’, Guardian, 17 May 1997.
44Daily Mail, Comment, 2 May 1997.
45Roy Greenslade, ‘18 years of certainty, 16 days of doubt’, Guardian, 17 May 1997.
46Lord Rothermere, ‘Why I have joined Labour’, Evening Standard, 23 May 1997.
47Peter Hillmore, ‘Rothermere’s switch to Labour pains the Mail’, Observer, 25 May 1997.
48Lynn Barber, ‘A Lord unto himself’, Observer, 29 June 1997.
49‘Triumph of the middle classes: The Daily Mail ’s proprietor shares his thoughts on the election with Philip Stephens’, Financial Times, 28 April 1997.
50Stephen Glover column in the Spectator, 30 May 1997.
Chapter 14
1Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘She spoke for everyone’s need for hugs and contact’, Daily Mail, 1 September 1997.
2Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘Go on Di, Dodi’s the best catch around’, Daily Mail, 13 August 1997.
3Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘Princes need a modest mother’, Daily Mail, 27 August 1997.
4Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘Praise – that’s all Diana really wants’, Daily Mail, 6 December 1995.
5Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘Don’t be taken in by Diana’, Daily Mail, 16 July 1997.
6Michael Leapman, ‘The NS profile: Lynda Lee-Potter’, New Statesman, 25 September 2000.
7Lynda Lee-Potter, ‘She’s a winner of a wife, so why do they keep on trying to wound her?’, Daily Mail, 29 April 1987.