Just before Easter, News Corp Australia reached a confidential settlement with the human rights lawyer George Newhouse over an allegedly defamatory article by its star columnist and host of Ten's The Bolt Report, Andrew Bolt.
Across at the Telegraph, star columnist and part-time mayor Boris Johnson, who has probably given the issue three of four minutes of half-concentrated thought, calls Blair "unhinged".
Most despicably of all the columnist Richard Littlejohn suggested Chahal, who has a long record of bringing groundbreaking cases, might have a crush on Sutcliffe; the writer likened her to "one of those madwomen who write to serial killers and end up marrying them".
I don't like certain sorts of intrusive reporter and nasty columnist.
She will leave her position as a columnist and associate editor at the Sunday Times to take up the role.
The Age was ridiculed on Thursday on social media after publishing a photo of the comedian Nazeem Hussain to point to a story about its own columnist Waleed Aly.
The Shetland News columnist and teacher Genevieve White, a long-standing Labour voter, said: "I was pretty surprised to hear about Alistair Carmichael's part in the leak.
There have been accusations and counter-accusations: who is leaking intelligence, who is a fifth columnist".
Sky newsroom reporters and one paper's gossip columnist were recently recruited.
I understand that the editor, Tony Gallagher, was made aware by the sports desk of deep upset about the hiring of MacKenzie by its writers, especially its star columnist Alan Hansen.
One columnist for the state agency RIA Novosti said the whole scandal was a "tried and tested American method of brain control" to divert attention from allegations of NSA spying.
