Is Richard Desmond avoiding Paul Dacre? Photograph: Tom Stoddart/Getty Images/Hulton Archive
Richard Desmond's newspapers were unusually quiet on Tuesday about the opening day of the Leveson inquiry. While the other papers covered the good lord's opening gambit, Monkey could not see a whisper of it in the Daily Star or Express. Desmond's Express and Star titles flounced out of the Press Complaints Commission at the start of the year, an absence that is seen as catastrophic for the industry's self-regulatory regime as it finds itself in the spotlight during Leveson. And there was no sign of Desmond – or anyone from his company Northern & Shell – at the Society of Editors conference either. Monkey wonders if perhaps, after his recent interview in the Guardian in which he said "Dacre goes out slagging me off; he can go fuck himself", they were worried about bumping into the Daily Mail editor in chief.
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