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fans in the stadium. I had absolutely no reason to believe that these authority figures would lie and deceive over such a disaster. As the Prime Minister has made clear these allegations were wholly untrue and were part of a concerted plot by police officers to discredit the supporters thereby shifting the blame for the tragedy from themselves. It has taken more than two decades, 400,000 documents and a two-year inquiry to discover to my horror that it would have been far more accurate had I written the headline 'The Lies' rather than 'The Truth'. I published in good faith and I am sorry that it was so wrong.
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publication. Later in the day, a spokesman for the newspaper apologised "for the offence caused" and said the columnist "has been suspended from the paper with immediate effect. The views expressed by Kelvin Mackenzie about the people of Liverpool were wrong, unfunny and are not the view of the paper". A month after the column appeared, it was announced that MacKenzie's "contract with News Group Newspapers", the
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MacKenzie chose the headline "The Truth" only after staff members convinced him not to use "You Scum". Its source was a Sheffield news agency, Whites, which later said that four South Yorkshire Police officers were the source of the claims, as well as "a leading MP backing many of the police claims".
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to support its claim that a group of Liverpool supporters told a police officer that they would have sex with a dead female victim. The journalist who wrote the first draft of the article, Harry Arnold, said that MacKenzie claimed he would "make it clear that this is what some people are saying", but
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to read the news wearing a hijab. Manji accused MacKenzie of attempting to "intimidate Muslims out of public life" and attempting to smear 1.6 billion Muslims in suggesting they are inherently violent. She said, "He has attempted to smear half of them further by suggesting they are helpless slaves.
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MacKenzie took a radically different approach to that of his predecessor and produced cheap, down-market programming. He introduced features such as nightly editions of "Topless Darts" (featuring topless women playing darts on a beach), "The Weather in Norwegian" (with a young, typically-blonde and
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appearing to imply Barkley deserved to be beaten up in a nightclub incident earlier in the week. Comparing the player to a "gorilla at the zoo", MacKenzie was accused of racism (Barkley is of part-Nigerian descent). The column was removed from the newspaper's website on the afternoon of its day of
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Although there was actually little reaction to the quotes on Merseyside at the time, they did draw comment from Phil Hammond, chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, who said: "I can't believe that even after all these years, there is no remorse or regret for the hurt he caused". It was
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As MacKenzie's layout was seen by more and more people, a collective shudder ran through the office MacKenzie's dominance was so total there was nobody left in the organisation who could rein him in except Murdoch. seemed paralysed, "looking like rabbits in the headlights", as one hack described
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in September 1992, Major telephoned him to ask how the paper would report the story. While Major has denied the conversation ever took place, MacKenzie has claimed his response was: "Prime Minister, I have on my desk in front of me a very large bucket of shit which I am just about to pour all over
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Today I offer my profuse apologies to the people of Liverpool for that headline. I too was totally misled. Twenty three years ago I was handed a piece of copy from a reputable news agency in Sheffield in which a senior police officer and a senior local MP were making serious allegations against
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described the allegations unequivocally as "lies". The official government enquiry into the disaster dismissed the allegation that drunken Liverpool fans had been responsible for the disaster, and concluded that inadequate crowd control and errors by the police had been the primary cause of the
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were prepared to print the more outlandish allegations about theft and the abuse of dead bodies, with many editors feeling that the claims sounded dubious. Furthermore, the other national papers which printed coverage claiming that Liverpool fans were responsible for the disaster, including the
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published an editorial which accused people of "scapegoating" the police, saying that the disaster occurred "because thousands of fans, many without tickets tried to get into the ground just before kick-off – either by forcing their way in or by blackmailing the police into opening the gates".
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L!VE TV had a budget of only £2,000 an hour and attracted a small audience, with an average of 200,000 viewers, but became well known because of the controversy and criticism surrounding its programming. That led to the station being labelled "Tabloid TV" and even "Sun TV" (in reference to the
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MacKenzie later said that he would agree to indulge in a "night of passion" with Janet Street-Porter and that he would be "willing", but only if she paid him £4.7m, a figure he had arrived at after calculating how much money he would lose from "loss of reputation, the negative impact on future
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Trevor Hicks, chairman of the Hillsborough Family Support Group, rejected Mr MacKenzie's apology as "too little, too late", calling him "lowlife, clever lowlife, but lowlife". The copy from White's news agency was available to other newspapers, who reported the story as allegations –
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still thought at this point however that, although MacKenzie appeared not to regret the coverage, he no longer regarded it as having any factual basis after his apparent admissions in the past that the allegations made were lies fed to him by police officers and a Conservative MP.
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was published, which was criticised for "inviting readers to feel revulsion at his disfigurement". MacKenzie himself once told his staff: "Give me a Sunday for Monday splash on the royals. Don't worry if it's not true—so long as there's not too much of a fuss about it afterwards."
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It is plainly wrong for MacKenzie to assert that Scottish people do not understand business and enterprise. There are some phenomenal Scottish entrepreneurs, I could name so many. I think Kelvin MacKenzie is a raving lunatic, I think he's a complete idiot and a racist idiot at
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them. The error staring them in the face was too glaring. It obviously wasn't a silly mistake; nor was it a simple oversight. Nobody really had any comment on it, they just took one look and went away shaking their heads in wonder at the enormity of it. It was a classic smear.
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Despite MacKenzie's self-professed pride at having printed the "Gotcha" headline, Roy Greenslade has said that MacKenzie had only chosen the headline prior to it becoming clear that there had been a large number of Argentine casualties resulting from the sinking of the
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MacKenzie and his team were accused of simply inventing many of the stories that appeared in the newspaper, as well as interviews and, in some instances, that proved to be the case, such as when an entirely fabricated interview with the disfigured Falklands war hero
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removed because their barking kept him awake at night. Shortly after publication, MacKenzie confirmed the inaccuracy of that story by sending a reporter to the singer's house, who quickly discovered that all of Elton John's guard dogs were quite capable of barking.
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Bouncing weather dwarfs were a major milestone in British TV. Their weather forecasts will be five years old now. We used to shoot them in batches ... and it was just luck if the forecast actually coincided with the weather. We were really ahead of our time. If
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Tosspots" and apparently rejoicing in the fact that Scotland has a lower life expectancy than the rest of the United Kingdom. MacKenzie's column provoked a storm of protest and was heavily condemned by numerous commentators including Scottish MPs and MSPs.
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but was not sure about all of it. In 2012, he said: "Twenty-three years ago I was handed a piece of copy from a reputable news agency in Sheffield in which a senior police officer and a senior local MP were making serious allegations against fans in the
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journalists having been told that he had left his wife 15 years earlier. Aside from criticism about the story's highly questionable news value, the newspaper was furiously condemned as the story was run when the man's recovery was still in the balance.
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published a piece reporting MacKenzie's statements and criticising the apparent lack of shame or regret over the Hillsborough coverage implied by them (and the fact that MacKenzie may still regard the misleading coverage as a "good story").
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On 12 September 2012, following the publication of the official report into the disaster using previously withheld government papers which has exonerated the Liverpool fans present at the match, MacKenzie issued the following statement:
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political figures and movements, and its sensationalist front-page celebrity exposés. They often proved to be misleading or false, and many controversies in that area occurred during MacKenzie's editorship. Commentators including
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MacKenzie has said that, early in his career, he discovered that he had little writing ability and that his talents lay in making up headlines and laying out pages. By 1978, at the age of 32, he became managing editor of the
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All I did wrong there was tell the truth. There was a surge of Liverpool fans who had been drinking and that is what caused the disaster. The only thing different we did was put it under the headline "The Truth". I went on
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Wins Today, Will The Last Person To Leave Britain Please Turn Out The Lights", accompanied by a picture of Kinnock's head superimposed over a lightbulb. Although the paper initially supported the government of
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My sense about England right now is that they wish Scotland to be independent. They want them, they want them to go out there and make their way in the world and see if they are as clever as they believe they
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claimed that MacKenzie was considering issuing a public apology for his coverage of the Hillsborough disaster, although at the time he was "still unsure" as to whether to do so. His former colleague at
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over MacKenzie's statements, the newspaper chose to retain him as a columnist. MacKenzie refused to comment publicly on the controversy and pulled out of a scheduled appearance on BBC television's
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newspaper. Some critics accused MacKenzie of doing nothing more than creating a television version of his old newspaper), and of taking a "shamelessly tacky approach". He left the station in 1997.
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in the aftermath of the controversy to apologise. MacKenzie said on the programme: "It was my decision and my decision alone to do that front page in that way and I made a rather serious error".
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MacKenzie later said that he found it difficult to understand why he had believed, let alone published, the claims about the guard dogs, which he later realised were absurd. Elton John sued
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MacKenzie spent a year as chairman of one of the UK's largest marketing and communications groups, Media Square plc. That was unsuccessful and MacKenzie left a year later, in March 2007.
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During an after-dinner speech to Newcastle-based law firm Mincoffs Solicitors on 30 November 2006, MacKenzie is reported to have said of his coverage of the Hillsborough disaster:
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article was published but, while many national newspapers printed allegations about Liverpool fans being responsible for the disaster, only MacKenzie and his counterpart at the
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When I published those stories, they were not lies. They were great stories that later turned out to be untrue – and that is different. What am I supposed to feel ashamed about?
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In December 2020, MacKenzie expressed that the Irish love the Germans and did not fight to save Jewish people in World War II. An estimated 70,000 Irish citizens served in the
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as a columnist, and was accused of using one of his articles to attack the people of Scotland (see below). On the subject of the columns themselves, he said "I want to get the
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can only have a value if there has been some kind of damage, right? Where is the damage? Where? There's nothing wrong with him. So no, I don't feel bad about him, not at all.
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was being sued for libel for £200,000 over a column by MacKenzie. The claim was brought by an NHS doctor, Antonio Serrano, who MacKenzie had criticised in an artivcle.
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in 1994, he was appointed to executive roles in satellite television and other broadcasting outlets, as well as being involved in a number of publishing enterprises.
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The article was accompanied by graphic photographs showing Liverpool fans, including young children, choking and suffocating as they were being crushed against the
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had the front-page headline, "The Truth", and accused Liverpool fans of theft, and of urinating on and attacking police officers and emergency services. It quoted
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as a presenter. He made his debut on the station over the summer, presenting a series of programmes telling the story of various scandals which have occurred at
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MacKenzie went on to compare Merseysiders with animal rights activists. "If this got out, it would blow up all over again", MacKenzie is said to have remarked.
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followed immediately and continues to this day. The boycott involves customers refusing to purchase the paper, and retailers refusing to stock it. In 2019, the
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issued a statement saying that they had "already apologised for what happened and we stand by that apology." However, despite reports of consternation at
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sports desk were annoyed about at his role in the false reporting on the Hillsborough disaster, in particular, football columnist and ex-Liverpool player
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MacKenzie's coverage of the Falklands War was criticised by some commentators for being a glorification of war (Greenslade was working with MacKenzie on
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constituency borders, as "an absolute shocker". Asked to clarify those comments, he said it was "a joke" and that he has "never actually been to Hull".
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and that even stories which later turned out to be untrue were still "good stories". In relation to the publishing of false or misleading reports in
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the next day and apologised. I only did that because Rupert Murdoch told me to. I wasn't sorry then and I'm not sorry now because we told the truth.
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studio audience. The BBC received around 200 complaints and MacKenzie's comments drew widespread criticism, including comments from the Scottish
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MacKenzie was responsible for the "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" front-page headline. The claims made in the accompanying article, that the
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has suggested that the real reason why MacKenzie may be so hesitant to apologise and admit the inaccuracy of the coverage may be his "anti-
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has always been very up for 42 days and perhaps even 420 days". Off-camera, before a BBC interview, MacKenzie referred to Hull, which the
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MacKenzie subsequently decided not to run for the Haltemprice and Howden seat, stating: "The clincher for me was the money. Clearly
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miners. The paper was accused of making misleading or even outright false claims about the miners, their unions, and their leader
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The remarks were met with widespread incredulity and condemnation, particularly on Merseyside, where Liverpool F.C., the local
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reported that Merseyside sales were estimated to have dropped from 55,000 per day to 12,000 per day, an 80% decrease. In 2014,
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like London and the south-east... Scots enjoy spending but they don't enjoy creating it, which is the opposite to down south.
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committee, "I regret Hillsborough. It was a fundamental mistake. The mistake was I believed what an MP said". Next year, on
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as a columnist. His contract was terminated by mutual consent in May 2017, after he was suspended for comparing footballer
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for vile and be personally rude to as many people as possible." In June 2011, it was announced that MacKenzie would leave
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for libel over both of the fallacious claims and was awarded £1,000,000 in damages. MacKenzie later said of Elton John:
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Look, I am not here to be helpful. I am here to help myself, right, so I have no regrets to how I treated some people.
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in July 2012 after writing for the title for one year, citing an "increased commercial workload". Subsequently,
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front page on 19 April 1989 caused widespread offence among Merseysiders, causing them to boycott the newspaper.
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and its reporters "from all areas of its operation" following Liverpool FC who had made such a decision about
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couldn't put up the cash – so I was going to have to rustle up a maximum of £100,000 to conduct my campaign."
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as "The Abo's: Brutal and Treacherous", which was condemned as "inaccurate" and "unacceptably racist" by the
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is particularly prominent, there were many other vitriolic personal attacks on Labour leaders by MacKenzie's
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as editor in 1981. Conflict between the two mastheads meant that MacKenzie performed both jobs for a time.
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tournaments over the years. He then presented a retrospective look at the year gone by on Christmas Day.
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April 1989 saw the single biggest controversy during MacKenzie's period as editor, later described in a
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as the newspaper with the highest sales in the UK. MacKenzie cemented the paper's image as a right-wing
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TV programme and launched another attack on Scotland. During a debate about tax, MacKenzie said that:
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For years, MacKenzie maintained that his "only mistake was to believe a Tory MP". In 1993, he told a
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A day before the 28th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster in April 2017, MacKenzie's column in
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arguing that the quotes confirmed that MacKenzie was "never fit to edit a national newspaper". The
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In January 1987, MacKenzie published a completely untrue front-page story alleging that pop singer
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editorial in 2004 as "the most terrible mistake in our history", occurred in the aftermath of the
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You just don't understand the readers, do you, eh? He's the bloke you see in the pub, a right old
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at 17 and, for the next ten years, worked on local and then national newspapers, including the
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was supportive of the actions of the police and the Thatcher government against the striking
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Earlier that autumn MacKenzie had already provoked controversy in Liverpool by stating in a
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as an online columnist in 2013, but he was dropped by the newspaper after one column, with
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during the Falklands War was celebrated on the front page of the British tabloid newspaper
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and the weirdos and drug dealers. He doesn't want to hear about that stuff (serious news).
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called his comments "absolutely disgraceful", and booing and jeering were heard from the
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Chippindale & Horrie, p. 442. The precise wording varies from source to source.
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newspaper article, MacKenzie wrote that he was against the return of the death penalty.
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on a sandwich and ate it, turned out to be entirely untrue and was an invention of the
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public discourse because of its preoccupations. Pilger blamed it for the promotion of
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And he has attempted to smear me by suggesting I would sympathise with a terrorist".
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announced that MacKenzie would make a second return to the newspaper as a columnist.
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Some other controversies during MacKenzie's editorship include a headline describing
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In response to MacKenzie's article, on the day of its publication Everton FC banned
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In November 1998, MacKenzie headed a consortium, TalkCo Holdings, which purchased
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front-page headline of 4 May 1982, which reported the contentious sinking of the
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in 1981, by which time the publication had been established as Britain's largest
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Despite apologising on a number of platforms, in 2016, MacKenzie made a joke in
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In December 2016, during a civil court case, it emerged that MacKenzie had left
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After moving back to the United Kingdom, and a period as night editor of the
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forecasts in both English and Norwegian), other weather forecasts featuring
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There were many other controversies during MacKenzie's time in charge of
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should have its million quid back. It hasn't damaged him at all, has it?
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surrounding the terraces – this was widely condemned as inappropriate.
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is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28 day stance and
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In May 2008, MacKenzie stood for election as a local councillor in
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put on Topless Darts at 10 pm they would double their ratings.
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reported the allegations, on McKenzie's say-so, as 'the truth'.
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On 13 January 2012, MacKenzie once again appeared on the BBC's
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Stick It Up Your Punter!: The Uncut Story of the Sun Newspaper
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from CLT for £24.7 million. One of the financial backers was
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would be used to train MPs to recognise false news stories.
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against his ex-wife was then in force. However he left the
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interview that he had never knowingly printed any lies in
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The station failed and closed after less than four years.
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manifesto for the party. However, in February 2008, in a
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In October 2014, MacKenzie was a contestant on gameshow
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MacKenzie was an early investor in online video company
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operation. The story denounced the man as a "love rat",
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John Pilger (1998). "Hidden Agendas". Vintage: 445–449.
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MacKenzie has criticised Scotland, although he is of
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Retrieved on 4 May 2007. 3295:MacKenzie, Kelvin (23 April 2008). 3013:Jackson, Jasper (8 December 2016). 1619:newspaper that if it was true that 1279:That same year, after Conservative 1249:politics has led him to argue that 1096:In May 2006, MacKenzie returned to 811:In their book about the history of 555:British miners' strike in 1984–1985 4743:People educated at Alleyn's School 4728:English people of Scottish descent 3870:"Fury at MacKenzie's Scots attack" 3353:"Ex-Sun editor to challenge Davis" 3328:"Tories win majority in Elmbridge" 2367:Gazette, Press (11 October 2006). 2306:Eaton, George (20 November 2019). 1501:to sack MacKenzie as a columnist. 1204:, who had played at Hillsborough. 426:MacKenzie was responsible for the 14: 3999:Saul, Heather (19 October 2016). 3704:Cockburn, Harry (14 April 2017). 3571:, Radio 5 Live, 13 September 2012 3128:Garside, Juliette (16 May 2011). 2904:"MacKenzie quits marketing group" 2590:Turner, Richard (28 April 2016). 2446:"Sun apologises for Hillsborough" 2017:Gold, Tanya (28 September 2012). 1915:"A man in search of the X factor" 1860:"Kelvin MacKenzie leaves the Sun" 1774:, MacKenzie wrote an article for 1630:mentioned the Everton footballer 1164:, established in 2007 by his son 625:had engaged in sex with underage 294:, Murdoch appointed MacKenzie to 247:, MacKenzie left school with one 19:For the Guyanese footballer, see 4758:The Sun (United Kingdom) editors 3895:Akbar, Arifa (13 October 2007). 3868:Conlan, Tara (12 October 2007). 3652:Parveen, Nazia (14 April 2017). 3378:Percival, Jenny (19 June 2008). 2987:Robinson, James (30 June 2011). 2902:Tryhorn, Chris (29 March 2007). 2671:Conlan, Tara (12 January 2007). 1913:Robinson, James (15 June 2008). 1340: 1085:In March 2006, MacKenzie joined 771:, which claimed the lives of 97 606:European Exchange Rate Mechanism 138: 111: 3973:Sweney, Mark (22 August 2016). 3947:Plunkett, John (19 July 2016). 3456:Tara Conlan (1 December 2006). 3235:"Your Favourite Prime Minister" 3156:Halliday, Josh (8 April 2013). 3100:Bentham, Martin (8 July 2014). 2786:Bounds, Andy (26 August 2019). 2397:. 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