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
The Sunday Standard The Sunday Standard The Sunday Standard was an English-language weekly newspaper in Sri Lanka published by Standard Newspapers (Private) Limited, part of Communication and Business Equipment (Private) Limited (CBE). It was founded in 2007 and was published from Colombo. Its sister newspaper was the ‘’Mawbima’’. "The Sunday Standard" and its sister newspaper "Mawbima" were launched in August 2006. "The Sunday Standard" was a successor to "The Weekend Standard" which had been launched by businessman Tiran Alles in August 2005 to help the presidential campaign of Mahinda Rajapaksa. The newspaper was politically independent and exposed corruption, mismanagement and human rights violations