PAUL DACRE, who thinks of himself as a conductor, emerges from his office at 6pm each weekday to tune up his orchestra: the writers and editors of Britain’s second-bestselling newspaper, the Daily Mail. He paces around the newsroom, ripping up pages, rewriting headlines and dressing down hacks. It is, Mr Dacre has said, an exercise in “remorseless energy”. The next morning that energy tumbles onto the doormats of suburban England. Judges quibbling over Brexit? “Enemies of the people”! Food wholesalers hiring staff from Hungary? “Is there no one left in Britain who can make a sandwich?”
Since Mr Dacre got the job in 1992, the Sun and Daily Telegraph have each appointed six editors. Five prime ministers have occupied Downing Street. Mr Dacre has gone unchallenged. Even when he was on holiday, says an ex-lieutenant, “the paper would come out in his image”. Yet the orchestra will soon have a new...Continue reading
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