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".
As Mary Hershberger observes, in her book "Jane Fonda's War" (2005), "Almost all of the columnists and reporters who wrote contemptuous reports were male.
One day, editor John Carroll said they were dropping all the community columnists.
"In all history," the columnist Simon Jenkins observed in The Guardian, "the conundrum of Britain's relationship with the rest of Europe has never been resolved".
I talked to all the existing columnists, who were all really suspicious.
If you think that all the different columnists come together at Christmas and chase down WKDs, guzzle mini pork pies and dance ironically to Take That, you're living in cloud cuckoo land.
Why doesn't it suffice for The Times simply to let the country's finest Op-Ed writers — including all the guest columnists — argue politics on every side of the issues of the day?
