21Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
22Author interview with ‘Elsa’, 24 March 2014.
23Author interview with ‘Jo’, 22 March 2015.
24Author interview with ‘Mo’, 5 November 2013.
25Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
26Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
27‘Cyn’ via email. Author interview with ‘Cyn’, former senior Daily Mail reporter, 4 December 2013.
28Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
Chapter 18
1‘National press ABCs: Daily Star and Times boost sales while Trinity Mirror’s Sunday tabloids take a tumble’, Press Gazette, 18 August 2016.
2The average yearly rate of decline between January 2010 to January 2016 in ABC circulation figures was 4.69%. At this rate, the circulation would drop below the Mail ’s first edition sales in August 2044.
3‘Paul Dacre’s (Society of Editors) speech in full’, MailOnline, 10 November 2008.
4‘DMGT chairman Lord Rothermere talks to Rufus Olins’, Newsworks’ Shift 2013 conference on 16 April 2013.
5‘British Invasion: How “Journalism Crack” Conquered the Internet: Mail Online publisher Martin Clarke wants to get even bigger’, by Kara Bloomgarden-Smoke, New York Observer, 19 March 2014.
6A Keynote Conversation with Mail Online’s Martin Clarke, Interviewer: Steve Smith, Columnist. MediaPost, 20 February 2013. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW6FPX8_gpk
7‘MailOnline, Journalist – Mandarin Speaker’, Gorkana jobs, posted 11 April 2016.
8Roy Greenslade, ‘What is Mail Online doing in partnership with the People’s Daily of China?’, Guardian, 12 August 2016.
9Arif Durrani, ‘Media: Rothermere plots global domination for Mail Online’, Campaign, 17 May 2013.
10Source: ABC circulation figures.
11Mark Sweney, ‘DMGT issues profit warning after double-digit fall in print ads’, Guardian, 26 May 2016.
12Author interview with Richard Addis, 6 October 2014.
13Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
14Mark Sweney, ‘Daily Mail ’s Paul Dacre sees pay fall by almost 40%’, Guardian, 18 December 2015.
15Kevin Rawlinson and Jasper Jackson, ‘Daily Mail editor received £88,000 in EU subsidies in 2014’, Guardian, 30 March 2016.
16Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
17House price estimate from the Mail-owned website Zoopla.
18Simon Jenkins, ‘The Garrick Club’s vote to keep women out is sad rather than sexist’, Guardian, 7 July 2015.
19Author interview with ‘Jo’, 22 March 2015.
20Author interview, 22 May 2015.
21Author interview with ‘Penny’, 23 March 2015.
22William Turvill, ‘After 39 years of fighting “boffins, toffs and cads”, Daily Mail style guide writer reveals all (including Dacre’s sub-editor “fears”)’, Press Gazette, 16 April 2015.
23Paul Dacre, Society of Editors speech in full, Press Gazette, 9 November 2008.
24Geoffrey Levy, ‘The man who hated Britain’, Daily Mail, 27 September 2013.
25‘Alastair Campbell: “The Daily Mail is run by a bully and a coward”’, BBC Newsnight, 1 October 2013.
26‘Jon Steafel Out At The Mail’, Media Guido, 16 August 2016. http://order-order.com/2016/08/16/jon-steafel-mail/
27Paul Dacre, ‘Why is the left obsessed by the Daily Mail?’, Guardian, 12 October 2013.
28Jasper Jackson, ‘More than 50,000 sign petition calling for Daily Mail editor to be sacked’, Guardian, 22 June 2016.
29Timur Moon, ‘Stephen Fry Brands Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre “a Frothing Autocrat” as Olympics Spat Escalates’, International Business Times, 10 August 2013.
30National Readership Survey trends data, December 2016 (http://www.nrs.co.uk/nrs-print/readership-and-circulation-trends/trend-charts/).
31David Smith, ‘A liberal and one-time anarchist who opposes the war in Iraq, the country’s favourite astrologer has the tabloids falling over each other ready to pay him millions’, Observer, 20 June 2004.
32Author interview with ‘Terry’, 6 October 2014.
33Penny Junor, Home Truths: Life Around My Father, HarperCollins, 2002.
34Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
35Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
36Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
37Author interview with ‘Sean’, former senior Daily Mail executive, 24 November 2016.
38Paul Dacre, Desert Island Discs, BBC Radio 4, 25 January 2004.
39Author 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.
INDEX
Addis, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
advertising, ref1, ref2, ref3
aerial warfare, ref1
Aitken, Max, see Beaverbrook, Lord
Aitken, Sir Max, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Alamuddin, Amal, ref1, ref2
Alexander, Andrew, ref1
al-Fayed, Mohamed, ref1
Answers to Correspondents, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
ANZACS, ref1
Arnos Grove, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Ashworth, Margaret, ref1
Asquith, Herbert, ref1, ref2
Attenborough, Richard, ref1
Austin, Hal, ref1
Australian cricket team, ref1
Bacus magazine, ref1
Baldwin, Stanley, ref1
Ball, Zoe, ref1
Barber, Lynn, ref1
Barber, Noel, ref1
Barclay, Frederick and David, ref1
Barkers building, ref1, ref2
Battle of Cambrai, ref1
‘Battle of the Bladders’, ref1
Battle of the Somme, ref1
Beatles, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Beaumont, Captain Alexander Spink, ref1
Beaverbrook, Lord (Max Aitken), ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Beckham, David, ref1
Beckham, Victoria, ref1, ref2
Bedlam hospital, ref1
Biggs, Ronnie, ref1
bin Laden, Osama, ref1
biographies, ref1
Black, Conrad, ref1
Black Wednesday, ref1
Blair, Cherie, ref1, ref2
Blair, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Boer War, ref1, ref2
Boers, courtship among, ref1
Bonar Law, Andrew, ref1
Bonneville, Hugh, ref1
Bormann, Martin, ref1, ref2
Bowie, David, ref1
bowler hats, ref1
Bradshaw, Ian, ref1
Brazenor, Alfred, ref1, ref2
Brennan, Mickey, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Brink’s-Mat robbery, ref1
British Journalism Review, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
British Leyland, ref1, ref2
British Medical Journal, ref1
British Museum, ref1
British Press Awards, ref1
British Rail, ref1
British Union of Fascists, ref1
British Virgin Islands, ref1
British War Mission, ref1
Brittan, Leon, ref1
Brittenden, Arthur, ref1, ref2, ref3
Brooker, Charlie, ref1
Brown, Gordon, ref1, ref2
Brown, Tina, ref1
Browne, Tara, ref1
Budd, Zola, ref1
Burton, Richard, ref1
Burton, Tony, ref1, ref2, ref3
, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
Bush, George H. W., ref1
Cainer, Jonathan, ref1
Callaghan, James, ref1
Cameron, David, ref1, ref2, ref3
Campaign, ref1
Campbell, Alastair, ref1, ref2, ref3
cannabis, ref1, ref2
Cannes Film Festival, ref1
cannibals, ref1
Carter, Jimmy, ref1, ref2
cash machines, ref1
Caxton, William, ref1
celebrities, ref1, ref2, ref3
Chamberlain, Neville, ref1, ref2
Charles, Prince of Wales, ref1, ref2, ref3
Charleston Daily Mail, ref1
Charteris, Hugo, ref1
Chips, ref1
Christchurch Times, ref1
Christiansen, Arthur, ref1
Church Times, ref1
Churchill, Rhona, ref1, ref2
Churchill, Winston, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
circulation, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
and Dacre’s editorship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
in decline, ref1
and Northcliffe’s death, ref1
rivalry with Daily Express, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9
rivalry with Daily Mirror, ref1
and tabloid re-launch, ref1, ref2
Clarke, Martin Peter, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
Clarke, Tom, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Clarke, Veronica, ref1
Cleese, John, ref1
Clooney, George, ref1, ref2
Collins, Lisa, ref1
Colvin, Stephen, ref1
Comic Cuts, ref1
Compass magazine, ref1
concentration camps, ref1
‘Conference Quickies’ (CQs), ref1
Conlan, Jack, ref1
Conran, Shirley, ref1, ref2, ref3
Cooney, Bryan, ref1
Coote, Reg, ref1
Crewe, Quentin, ref1
Criterion, ref1
Crosby, Bing, ref1
Cudlipp, Hugh, ref1
Curzon, Lord, ref1
Czechoslovakia, Nazi invasion of, ref1
Dacre, James, ref1
Dacre, Kathy, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Dacre, Paul, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and America, ref1, ref2, ref3
appointed editor, ref1
and the arts, ref1
contempt for tabloids, ref1
and Daily Express, ref1
downgrading of foreign news, ref1
dubbed ‘the Grim Tweaker’, ref1
early years, ref1
editorship, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and EU referendum, ref1
fails to back Blair, ref1
and female company, ref1
feud with Desmond, ref1, ref2
intellectual pretensions, ref1
joins Daily Mail, ref1, ref2
joins Evening Standard, ref1
lack of social skills, ref1
launches Scottish edition, ref1
news judgement, ref1, ref2
obsession with the Guardian, ref1, ref2, ref3
pay packet, ref1
politics, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Ralph Miliband story, ref1
relationship with Gordon Brown, ref1
and successor as editor, ref1
and Telegraph editorship, ref1
and Times editorship, ref1
vocabulary, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Dacre, Peter, ref1, ref2
his funeral, ref1
Daily Beast website, ref1
Daily Courant, ref1
Daily Express, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
acquired by Richard Desmond, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dacre and, ref1
in decline, ref1, ref2, ref3
English and, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
English and Kennedy assassination, ref1
Harmsworth family and, ref1
Jean Rook and, ref1, ref2
and Martin Bormann story, ref1, ref2
proposed merger with Daily Mail, ref1, ref2, ref3
rivalry with Daily Mail, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12
US operations, ref1
Daily Herald, ref1, ref2
Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Mirror, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
English and, ref1
Keith Waterhouse leaves, ref1
rivalry with Daily Mail, ref1
US operations, ref1
and working classes, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Daily News, ref1
Daily News building, ref1, ref2
Daily Record, ref1
Daily Sketch, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8
Jean Rook and, ref1
merger with Daily Mail, ref1, ref2, ref3
Daily Star, ref1, ref2
Daily Telegraph, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Dacre offered editorship, ref1
Daily Universal Register, ref1
Dardanelles, ref1
Dargaville Carr, William, ref1, ref2
Dawson, George, ref1
de Courcy, Anne de, ref1
de Worde, Wynkyn, ref1
death notices, ref1
Decker, Mary, ref1
democracy, ref1
Dempster, Nigel, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
Denning, Lord, ref1
Desert Island Discs, ref1, ref2, ref3
Desmond, Richard, ref1, ref2, ref3
Dewar, Donald, ref1
Diaghilev, Sergei, ref1
Diana, Princess of Wales, ref1
Dickens, Charles, ref1
Disney, Anthea, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
divorce, ‘caused by women’, ref1
Docklands, ref1
Donaldson, Lord, ref1
Doncaster Gazette, ref1
Douglas, Sue, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
Dreadnoughts, ref1
Drone Army, ref1
Duncan Smith, Iain, ref1
Dunkirk, ref1
Durham, Lord, ref1
dustmen, ref1
Dyer, Amelia, ref1
earthquakes, in El Salvador, ref1
‘Editor’s Musts’, ref1
education, compulsory, ref1, ref2
Eichmann, Adolf, ref1
El Vino, ref1, ref2
Eliades, David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Eliot, T. S., ref1
Elizabeth I, Queen, ref1
Elizabeth II, Queen, ref1
English, Sir David, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7
and America, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
appointed editor-in-chief, ref1
and culture of editor power, ref1
and Dacre’s career, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5
and Dacre’s editorship, ref1
and Dacre’s politics, ref1, ref2, ref3
and Daily Mail culture, ref1
and Daily Mail re-launch, ref1, ref2, ref3
death, ref1, ref2
dishonesty, ref1, ref2
disliked at Evening Standard, ref1
and ‘Editor’s Musts’, ref1
familiarity with staff, ref1, ref2
friendship with Thatcher, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
and Jean Rook, ref1, ref2
and Kennedy assassination, ref1
love of jazz, ref1
and Mail on Sunday, ref1
and Moonies, ref1
and parties, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
and Princess Diana’s death, ref1
pro-European politics, ref1
stands down as editor, ref1
tenders resignation, ref1
Thatcher in
terviews, ref1, ref2
Who’s Who entry, ref1
and wife’s dementia, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
writing style, ref1
English, Irene, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6
English, Kitty, ref1
English, Nikki, ref1
Equity, ref1
EU referendum, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
EU subsidies, ref1
eugenics, ref1
Evans, Chris, ref1
Evans, Sir Harold, ref1, ref2, ref3
Evening News, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
Evening Standard, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10
and launch of Metro, ref1
Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM), ref1, ref2
Facebook, ref1
Falklands War, ref1
Farago, Ladislas, ref1
Fascists, Italian, ref1
Fayed, Dodi, ref1
Femail, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13
Ferdinand, Archduke, ref1
Ferguson, Niall, ref1
Financial Times, ref1, ref2, ref3
Finn, Phil, Jr, ref1, ref2
First World War, ref1, ref2
Fisher, Andrew, ref1
Fleet Street, at end of 1960s, ref1
‘Fleet Street Legends’, ref1
Fleming, Ian, ref1, ref2
Fletcher, Martin, ref1
Ford, Betty, ref1, ref2
Ford, Gerald, ref1
Fraser, Lovat, ref1, ref2
Fraser, Sir Malcolm, ref1
freelancers’ fees, ref1
Freemantle, Brian, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11
Freemantle, Maureen, ref1
French, Howard, ref1
Frost, David, ref1
Fry, Stephen, ref1, ref2, ref3
Fyfe, Hamilton, ref1, ref2
Gaddafi, Colonel Muammar, ref1, ref2
Gallagher, Liam, ref1
Gallagher, Tony, ref1, ref2
Gallipoli, ref1
Galtieri, General, ref1
Garrick Club, ref1, ref2
Gately, Stephen, ref1
Gawker website, ref1
‘gay genes’, ref1
General Strike, ref1
George V, King, ref1
Germans, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4
Gibbins, James, ref1
Gilchrist, Rod, ref1, ref2, ref3
Gladstone, William, ref1
Glasgow News, ref1
Google, ref1
Gordon, George, ref1, ref2
Gordon, Waxy, ref1
Gove, Michael, ref1
Graham, Billy, ref1
Great Depression, ref1
Greaves, Gerard, ref1
Greenslade, Roy, ref1, ref2
Grylls, Jimmy, ref1
Grylls, Michael, ref1
Guardian, ref1, ref2, ref3, ref4, ref5, ref6, ref7, ref8, ref9, ref10, ref11, ref12, ref13, ref14, ref15, ref16
Dacre’s obsession with, ref1, ref2, ref3