Richard Desmond

Desmond Taking Steps To Close Down Irish Daily Star Venture After Topless Kate Pictures

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 17.09.2012 | UK

Richard Desmond has begun "immediate steps" to close down his joint venture with the Irish Daily Star after the newspaper caused outrage by publishing...

Health Lottery Ad Banned For Misleading Customers About Jackpot Prize

Posted 22.08.2012 | UK

The Health Lottery, an enterprise run by media mogul Richard Desmond, has been told to cease an advertising campaign which misleadingly implied multip...

'Why I Ran McCann Stories', Former Express Editor Tells Media Inquiry

PA | Posted 12.01.2012 | UK

The Daily Express ran stories suggesting Madeleine McCann's parents could be responsible for her death because at the time "there was reason to believ...

Express Employed Criminal Detective For Five Years After Conviction

PA | Posted 13.03.2012 | UK

Express Newspapers continued using a private detective for more than five years after he was convicted of illegally accessing personal data, the Leves...

The Press Needs to Put Its House in Order - but Regulation Is Not the Answer

Alexander Walters | Posted 12.03.2012 | UK Politics
Alexander Walters

Journalists have rarely ranked high in the affections of the British public. Occasionally venerated for noble efforts abroad or campaigns at home, they are mostly left to languish alongside society's bottom feeders - politicians, for example, or estate agents.

Desmond: We've Always Heard About Other Papers Involved In Phone Hacking

Huffington Post UK | Dina Rickman | Posted 28.11.2011 | UK

Richard Desmond has told MPs that the Mail on Sunday, Mirror and the People were likely to have practised phone hacking as he gave evidence to a parli...

The Fallacy of Fear

Scott Hill | Posted 19.03.2012 | UK Politics
Scott Hill

As outlined at freedictionary.com, fallacy is an "incorrect or misleading notion based on inaccurate facts or invalid reasoning"; in other words, a fa...

Richard Desmond Tells Daily Mail Editor Paul Dacre To 'Go F*** Himself'

The Huffington Post UK | Stephen Hull | Posted 31.12.2011 | UK

Richard Desmond, boss of Channel 5 and The Daily Express has hit back at his Daily Mail rival Paul Dacre in a full frontal attack. There is no love...

Leveson Inquiry: Full List Of Invited Audience

Posted 05.12.2011 | UK

It reads like a Who’s Who list of the newspaper industry. This is the full list of invited audience for the first of the Leveson Inquiry seminars on...

Sally Bercow Will Be a Big Brother Contestant

Bobby Friedman | Posted 07.10.2011 | UK Politics
Bobby Friedman

For John Bercow, it will be an uncomfortable and embarrassing time. He'll be grateful that Parliament is in recess as that will provide some respite