MARCH MADNESS
IKE and Tina. Liam and Noel. Jez and Zarah. The consequences of a falling-out between former close colleagues can be devastating, so hopes and prayers to
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editor Chris Evans and his reality-challenged columnist Allison Pearson, who have undergone such a bust-up that her status as star striker on the former newspaper is under serious threat.
It began when Pearson filed the first draft of her regular Wednesday dispatch for 17 September’s edition, which focused on Tommy Robinson’s “Unite the Kingdom” march the previous weekend, and made the unarguable point that the crowd could not have been racist because a friend of hers called Richard had attended and he said he wasn’t – he just didn’t like “men from backward cultures”.