Paul Dacre: self-serving and sanctimonious

The Mail editor’s attack on Judge Eady is nothing but a plea to be allowed to continue publishing lies

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Paul Dacre, Editor-in-Chief of the Daily Mail, has effectively argued that democracy might collapse and newspapers like his own could go out of business unless they are allowed - without reprisal or punishment - to go on publishing lies.

That conclusion can be drawn from Dacre's speech yesterday to the Society of Editors' conference in Bristol.

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