Abstract
Would the Daily Mail be quite as tasty without Peter McKay, the most piquant of sauceboxes? Or sans saucy Lynda Lee-Potter, saucy Keith Waterhouse or saucy Simon Heffer? Would The Sun without Richard Littlejohn? Would The Times without its op-ed sauciers, Libby Purves, Simon Jenkins, William Rees-Mogg and Anatole Kaletsky? The Sunday Express was never the same once John Junor moved to serve up his Auchtermuchty relish at The Mail on Sunday. And too many lip-smacking flavours disappeared from the Daily Express with the loss, one after another, of George Gale, Jon Akass, Jean Rook and Peter Hitchens.
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