Richard Littlejohn

Although primarily a newspaper journalist, Littlejohn has presented numerous radio and TV shows, and has authored or co-authored several books. Richard Littlejohn - Journalism. Littlejohn left school in 1971 aged 16, and started work as a trainee journalist in his home town of Peterborough; he worked for several local newspapers during the early 1970s. In the mid-1970s, he joined the Birmingham Evening Express ...

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The Daily Mail is a British tabloid newspaper, first published in 1896. Its sister paper, the Mail on Sunday, was launched in 1982. The editorial slant of both papers is towards social and political conservatism. The Daily Mail was Britain's first daily newspaper aimed at what is now considered the middle-market and the first to sell 1 million copies a day. Originally broadsheet, the Mail switched to the tabloid format in which it is published today on May 3, 1971, the 75th anniversary of its founding (on t ...

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• Daily Mail - History
• Daily Mail - Editorial stance
• Daily Mail - Criticism
• Daily Mail - Moral Issues
• Daily Mail - Immigration
• Daily Mail - Pseudoscience
• Daily Mail - Conservative appearance
• Daily Mail - Satire
• Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers
• Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers
• Daily Mail - Current writers
• Daily Mail - Past writers

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A columnist is a journalist who produces a specific form of writing for publication called a "column". Columns appear in newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Some Internet columns are called blogs or Weblogs. What differentiates a column from other forms of journalism is that it meets each of the following criteria: It is a regular feature in a publication It is personality-driven by the author It explic ...

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Viz is a popular British adult spoof comic magazine. The comic's style parodies the strait-laced British comics of the post-war period, notably The Beano and The Dandy, but with very adult language, crude toilet humour and either sexual or violent story lines (and often both). It also sends up tabloid style newspapers, with mockeries of letters pages and daft competitions with rubbish prizes. It also often satirises current events and politicians, and pretends to be obsessed with celebrities, including half ...

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• Viz comic - History
• Viz comic - Regular Features
• Viz comic - Featured Strips
• Viz comic - Spoof News Stories
• Viz comic - Letterbocks
• Viz comic - Top Tips
• Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions
• Viz comic - Photo Strips
• Viz comic - Viz in other media

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The Daily Mail, devised by Alfred Harmsworth (later Lord Northcliffe and his brother Harold (later Lord Rothermere), was first published on May 4, 1896 and was an immediate runaway success. It cost a halfpenny at a time when other London dailies cost a penny and was more populist in tone and more concise in its coverage than its rivals. Soon after its launch it had more than half a million readers. Controlled editorially by Alfred, with Harold running the business side of the operation, the Mail from the start adopted a ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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Since 2003 he has been a columnist for The Independent, on Wednesdays and Fridays, and his work has also appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Le Monde and Ha'aretz. Since September 2005 he has also written a weekly column for the London Evening Standard. His causes include environmentalism, the legalisation of drugs, prison reform, and defending asylum seekers and refugees. He opposes the IMF and World Bank, which he calls "agents of market fundamentalism"; calls for a Palest ...

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Johann Hari, Johann Hari - Early life, Johann Hari - Journalism, Johann Hari - Other writing, Johann Hari - Politics, Johann Hari - Controversy and polemics

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Viz comic - Featured Strips. Recurring or notable one-off strips include: Acker Bilk – (See Jimmy Hill) Aldridge Pryor – a pathological liar whose lies are ludicrous, such as The Nolan Sisters living in his fridge Badly Drawn Man – the singer Badly Drawn Boy is named after a one-off Viz cartoon character, who on the whole was very badly drawn Badly Overdrawn Boy – a variation on Badly Drawn Boy who is seen busking outside his local bank because he's skint B ...

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Viz comic, Viz comic - History, Viz comic - Regular Features, Viz comic - Featured Strips, Viz comic - Spoof News Stories, Viz comic - Letterbocks, Viz comic - Top Tips, Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions, Viz comic - Photo Strips, Viz comic - Viz in other media

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From a working-class family, Johann Hari is a member of the Labour Party, but opposes the party leadership on certain issues, being to the left of the government. He has written positively (March 2005) of Tony Blair's stand on gay issues and on "moderate redistribution of wealth", but is fiercely critical of his prisons policies, his failure to adequately tackle climate change, his approach to drugs, and others. He has been supportive of Hugo Chavez's government in Venezuela, reporting from the country on several occassions. He is a self-described "milit ...

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Johann Hari, Johann Hari - Early life, Johann Hari - Journalism, Johann Hari - Other writing, Johann Hari - Politics, Johann Hari - Controversy and polemics

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The Daily Mail considers itself to be the voice of Middle England, speaking up for the small-c conservative values of large swathes of the British population which it considers to be unjustly despised and neglected by the liberal establishment. It generally takes an anti-European, anti-immigration, anti-abortion (Despite its widely criticised "Abortion-hope" headline following the supposed discovery of a Gay Gene) stance, and is correspondingly pro-family, pro-tax cuts and pro-monarchy, as well as advocating stricter punishments for c ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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Daily Mail - Current writers. Keith Waterhouse Melanie Phillips Richard Littlejohn Daily Mail - Past writers. Paul Johnson Lynda Lee Potter Simon Heffer, who has recently left to join the Daily Telegraph Valentine Williams (1883-1946) General news correspondent and, during the First World War, chief of the Daily Mail war service. Later a popular mystery novelist. Source: Williams' memoir, The World of Action (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938), which describ ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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The Daily Mail considers itself to be the voice of Middle England, speaking up for the small-c conservative values of large swathes of the British population which it considers to be unjustly despised and neglected by the liberal establishment. It generally takes an anti-European, anti-immigration, anti-abortion stance, and is correspondingly pro-family, pro-tax cuts and pro-monarchy, as well as advocating stricter punishments for crime. The paper is generally critical of the BBC, which it perceives as being biased to the Left, but it ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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The Daily Mail is regularly a target of criticism and satire by centrist and left-of centre media and individuals, as well as satirical magazines. Daily Mail - Moral Issues. Owing to its stance on moral issues - for instance, its continuing condemnation of already-punished criminals such as Myra Hindley and Maxine Carr, and its editorial outrage at television programmes such as Jerry Springer - The Opera or Brass Eye, some left-wingers refer to the paper with nicknames such as the "Daily Heil", "Dai ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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The comic was started in Newcastle upon Tyne in 1979 by Chris Donald who produced the comic from his bedroom, with help from his brother Simon and friend Jim Brownlow. It came about at around the time, and in the spirit of, the punk fanzines, and used alternative methods of distribution such as the prominent DIY record label and shop Falling A Records which was an early champion of the comic. The first 12-page issue went on sale for 20p (30p to students) in a local pub that hosted punk gigs, and within hours the run of 150 copies had sold ou ...

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Viz comic, Viz comic - History, Viz comic - Regular Features, Viz comic - Featured Strips, Viz comic - Spoof News Stories, Viz comic - Letterbocks, Viz comic - Top Tips, Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions, Viz comic - Photo Strips, Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Daily Mail - Current writers. Peter Hitchens Suzanne Moore George Galloway Keith Waterhouse Harry Blackwood (North-East England area only) Derek Draper Daily Mail - Past writers. Norman Tebbit Julie Burchill ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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Some of the characters have had their own television series. They are: The Fat Slags Roger Mellie (featuring the voices of Peter Cook and Harry Enfield) Sid The Sexist Billy The Fish A computer game using many Viz characters was produced in 1991. A movie based on The Fat Slags was produced in 2004. [1] ...

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Viz comic, Viz comic - History, Viz comic - Regular Features, Viz comic - Featured Strips, Viz comic - Spoof News Stories, Viz comic - Letterbocks, Viz comic - Top Tips, Viz comic - Spoof Adverts and Competitions, Viz comic - Photo Strips, Viz comic - Viz in other media

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Daily Mail - Current writers. Keith Waterhouse Melanie Phillips Richard Littlejohn (starting from the 26 December 2005) Daily Mail - Past writers. Paul Johnson Lynda Lee Potter Simon Heffer, who has recently left to join the Daily Telegraph Valentine Williams (1883-1946) General news correspondent and, during the First World War, chief of the Daily Mail war service. Later a popular mystery novelist. Source: Williams' memoir, The World of Action (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1938), which describ ...

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Daily Mail, Daily Mail - History, Daily Mail - Editorial stance, Daily Mail - Criticism, Daily Mail - Moral Issues, Daily Mail - Immigration, Daily Mail - Pseudoscience, Daily Mail - Conservative appearance, Daily Mail - Satire, Daily Mail - Daily Mail writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers, Daily Mail - Mail on Sunday writers, Daily Mail - Current writers, Daily Mail - Past writers

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Littlejohn frequently denounces asylum seekers, homosexuals and single parents, whom he sees as part of a "politically correct" elite, and is also against closer ties between Britain and the European Union, both these standpoints being in keeping with the viewpoint of his most recent employers, the Daily Mail and Sun. He was also very much in favour of the Iraq war in 2003, as was The Sun ...

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Richard Littlejohn, Richard Littlejohn - Career, Richard Littlejohn - Journalism, Richard Littlejohn - Radio, Richard Littlejohn - Television, Richard Littlejohn - Books, Richard Littlejohn - Opinions, Richard Littlejohn - Controversy and criticism, Richard Littlejohn - LBC radio programme, Richard Littlejohn - The Michael Winner incident, Richard Littlejohn - The Will Self incident, Richard Littlejohn - Attitudes to homosexuality, Richard Littlejohn - Johann Hari, Richard Littlejohn - Viz Magazine

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