He seized on the columnist Jan Moir's description of the death of the pop singer Stephen Gately, which provoked a storm of complaints. He raised the Mail's reporting of the retired teacher Chris Jefferies. He highlighted complaints over the paper's...

The Moir piece attracted a record 25,000 complaints to the Press Complaints Comission and was later cleared of breaching the Editors’ Code. The piece appeared in the Mail on 16 October 2009 and was headed: "Why there was nothing ‘natural' about Stephen...

He launched a robust defence of his decision to describe Grant's evidence as "mendacious smears", declaring that the actor's claim that a story about him may have been sourced from phone hacking was damaging to his newspaper. "If I had allowed it to...

Relying on his instincts, Walsh knew that his next hit would be with a band that would rival the success of Take That. A series of auditions followed and five unknown artists were plucked from obscurity. Ronan Keating, Stephen Gately, Keith Duffy,...

In 2002, Will Young won the first series of Pop Idol. Who on earth could think badly of this obviously big-hearted young man, the first contestant, famously, to stand up to the bullying judges? Then Alex Parks won Fame Academy. It says a lot that by...

O’Neill, sums up this Orwellian modern phenomenon, where a mob of illiberal liberals on Twitter work with the authorities to silence those who dare to utter words that offend their sensibilities. This was the case with Daily Mail writer Jan Moir...