Rumour Is Utterly Unfounded
Jenny Diski: Family Newspapers, 8 October 2009
Family Newspapers?: Sex, Private Life and the British Popular Press 1918-78
by Adrian Bingham.
Oxford, 298 pp., £55, February 2009,978 0 19 927958 6 Show More
by Adrian Bingham.
Oxford, 298 pp., £55, February 2009,
“... detail. The means chosen should, of course, be poison. The Brides in the Bath murderer George Smith and John Christie of Rillington Place fitted the bill, while the Kray Brothers became tabloid proto-celebrities even as they were ordering gangland rivals to be shot or hacked to death. But there were limits, and in 1966 the horrors that came out during the ... ”