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 Dispatch Sunday Dispatch The Sunday Dispatch was a British newspaper, published between 27 September 1801 and 18 June 1961, when it was merged with the "Sunday Express". Until 1928, it was called the Weekly Dispatch. First published as the "Weekly Dispatch" in 1801, the newspaper was bought by Alfred Harmsworth and Lord Rothermere in 1903 from the Newnes family. The pair turned it around from bankruptcy, and made it the biggest selling Sunday newspaper. The name was changed to the "Sunday Dispatch" in 1928. As editor Charles Eade had served as Press Liaison officer for Lord Mountbatten during World War II,