[The Weeping Angel]

According to the Mail he is Britain's most acerbic diarist to everyone else he's Peter McKay, who according to our good friend Tim Fenton is the world's worst columnist. Quite an achievement considering the competition out there

[youngian]

Is he still around? The Private Eye spoof and his real column were virtually interchangeable.

[Catkins]

McKay claims two scientists only allowed on Newsnight to comment on purely white male matters (physics and astronomy) as they were female and brown.

Head of UCL hits back in open letter pointing out that Dr Hiranya Peiris, Reader in Astronomy at UCL (ex of Cambridge and Princeton) and Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock (Imperial and, actual presenter of The Sky at Night) were eminently qualified.

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[The Weeping Angel]

Zelo Street's on to him

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Whne Dacre goes there will be a lot of P45s at Northcliffe House

[ACG]

From the Graun; http://www.theguardian.com/science/life ... ght-bicep2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[The Weeping Angel]

I suppose seeing two non-white women was all too much for Mckay

[davidjay]

From the Graun; http://www.theguardian.com/science/life ... ght-bicep2" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

80 year old comment in there duly lifted for signature.

[The Red Arrow]

Saturday, 27 February 2016
Daily Mail Hugh Grant U-Turn

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[Big Arnold]

Original headline (still shown on the front page)

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: No member of the Royal Family will attend 50th anniversary commemoration of Aberfan tragedy

Changed with no apology after several readers commented that Prince Charles was attending.


EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The night a star of stage and screen was mistaken for a belly dance

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic ... ASTLE.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Bones McCoy]

According to the Mail he is Britain's most acerbic diarist to everyone else he's Peter McKay, who according to our good friend Tim Fenton is the world's worst columnist. Quite an achievement considering the competition out there

The likes of Hopkins have downed the ante in the worst columnist stakes.