While Blair spoke, Campbell sat in the editor’s chair, swung back and put his feet on the desk, the Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland remembers. David Cameron, when prime minister, ordered the Guardian to destroy hard drives of computers that had contained top secret documents leaked by Snowden. When the Guardian voiced concern about the looming conflict with Argentina over the Falkland Islands in 1982, the Sun warned of “the traitors in our midst”, such as “the pygmy Guardian”. In the short conversation with the Guardian, which the newspaper printed in full, he said the words “fuck” or “fucking” 14 times. More recently, another artist expressed his fury at Guardian criticism in a less threatening but equally unambiguous fashion.

Source: The Guardian May 11, 2021 06:00 UTC