Iain Dale Vs The Daily Mail. The PCC Verdict

Like Iain, I was disappointed, but not really surprised. I have not known the PCC to have sharp teeth in dealing with situations like this and Iain's situation is no different.

That said, there are some positives to come from this! Iain's situation, and far more to the point the Stephen Gately story, has drawn the spotlight onto the newspaper in a way that it won't appreciate or like. The Daily Mail always claims to speak for Middle England, but in this day and age it's increasingly obvious that if it speaks for any constituency, it's the nasty, class conscious (without properly understanding middle class culture), self-made snobs who would like Britain to have stayed in the 1950's, complete with all the downsides that adversely affected anyone but them! In the Britain of 2009, the Mail and those who blindly agree with it's editorials, are finding themselves against a coalition of critics from left to right, and indeed from social liberal to social conservative.

One hopes they wake up to that :-/