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On the way out: Paul Dacre
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GUILLERMO THOMAS welcomes a biography of WA Domingo, a key figure in the anti-colonial struggle in the Caribbean
BRENT CUTLER is intrigued by the imperialist, supremacist and contradictory history of a word that is used all too easily
Retirement at last for Paul Dacre,
Friend of boss, red-faced bigot, strikebreaker,
The old and the stale,
In what some call the Mail,
And I call the Malady Maker.
GREAT journalists can inform, educate and inspire. The writings of Paul Foot and John Pilger, to name but two, have illuminated my life. Bad journalists — almost inevitably boring, slavish, brown-nosing toadies of right-wing proprietors and editors — are a sad fact of life and one of many reasons for the decline of newspaper sales.
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