(L-R) Fergus Shanahan, Chris Pharo, Graham Dudman and Mike Sullivan all Sun hacks arrested in 2012 The Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/phone-hacking/9046405/Phone-hacking-four-Sun-journalists-arrested.html

On 23rd September 2008 Shanahan wrote in The Sun:

‘Dangerous streets are Labour’s fault. Too few police, soft courts, not enough jails, rampant truancy. Yobbish schools are down to heads being undermined by Labour politicians. 

‘Domestic violence is made worse by Labour’s welfare culture in which millions are paid to booze their lives away in front of the telly. How many kids are caught in the crossfire as rows erupt in homes where nobody has any purpose beyond the next trip to the offie?’

See also: The truth – why the Telegraph dropped Kelvin MacKenzie’s column

Has Kelvin MacKenzie become unemployable? Two weeks ago the former Sun editor lost his online column on the Daily Telegraph after just one effort (see here).

In July last year, he parted company with the Daily Mail after spending barely a year there as a columnist. Prior to that, from 2005 onwards, he wrote a column for the Sun.

Kelvin MacKenzie’s first and only column for the Telegraph took aim at teaching, reality TV producers, banks and British Gas. Photograph: Paul Hackett/Reuters

 

It is also apparent that he is no longer the maverick right-wing voice of choice for BBC1’s Question Time or Radio 4’s Any Questions.

Why should this be? In a word, Hillsborough. Twenty-four years on from the tragedy he cannot escape the fury of the people of Liverpool for his front page that defamed the city’s football fans.

One disastrous decision, to refer to the disgusting and false allegations about Liverpool FC’s fans as “The Truth”, has haunted him ever since.

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