A petition demanding an apology for Sun columnist Rodd Liddle’s anti-disabled and homophobic comments towards a prospective MP reached over 7,000 signatures yesterday.
The campaign was started by a member of the public after the paper published a piece about transgender and visually impaired Labour candidate Emily Brothers.
Mr Liddle’s December 10 commentary ends with the line: “Thing is though … being blind how did she know she was the wrong sex?”
JOHN LANG recalls how Murdoch used scabbing electricians and even devised a fake newspaper to force a confrontation with printers – then sacked them all
The once beating heart of British journalism was undone by technological change, union battles and Murdoch’s 1986 Wapping coup – leaving London the only major capital without a press club, says TIM GOPSILL
WILL PODMORE welcomes the case put by a feminist, disentangling the abusive rhetoric of the trans rights debate


