Sunday Mirror editor-in-chief and then editorial director of Mirror Group, where he pushed the daily title, the "Daily Mirror", to a circulation in excess of five million copies. Reflecting strongly prevailing cultural views across the papers across the generations, in 1952, the "Sunday Pictorial" ran a three-part series entitled "Evil Men" promising an "end to the conspiracy of silence" about homosexuality in Britain. "Most people know there are such things – 'pansies' – mincing, effeminate, young men who call themselves queers (...) but simple decent folk regard them as freaks and rarities." The "Sunday Pictorial" compared homosexuality to a "spreading fungus" that
Sunday Mail (Scotland) Sunday Mail (Scotland) The Sunday Mail is a Scottish tabloid newspaper published every Sunday. It is the sister paper of the "Daily Record" and is owned by Trinity Mirror. The newspaper places a strong emphasis on family values and it is well known for its campaigning journalism and hard-hitting investigations. In September 1999, when Editor Jim Cassidy was sacked, the paper's circulation was 767,000. Its nearest rival was the Scottish edition of the News of the World which sold around 350,000 copies at that time. As of December 2016, the "Sunday Mail" had a circulation of 172,513. This decreased to