"He is the embodiment of Fleet Street bullying, using his newspaper to peddle his Little-England, curtain-twitching Alan Partridgesque view of the world, which manages to combine sanctimonious, pompous moralising and prurient, voyeuristic, judgmental obsession, like a Victorian father masturbating secretly in his bedroom."
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on Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre in "We've been betrayed by David Cameron", The Guardian (29 November 2012)
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