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Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion

"If the trade of the gossip columnist is trivial, then all life is trivial"--Nigel Dempster No one is more responsible for Britain's current obsession with celebrity culture than the late, great gossip columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For a quarter of a century, as the editor of the Daily Mail's Diary, he was the man perfectly placed and qualified to record - and accelerate - the end of the age of deference. Indeed, for many people Dempster's Diary was the Mail. His page, with its scurrilous revelations about the great, the good, and the not-so good, was the only one to read. Bursti.

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