Had things turned out a little differently back in the late 1950s, it’s just possible that the cast in the TV smash hit Succession might have featured a rather different set of characters. Instead of featuring a media mogul partly inspired by Rupert Murdoch, it could have been based on yours truly – an uppity young Taffy trying to transform his local rag, the Cardiff and District News.
It had started well for me. At 15 I had a regular column with the very successful Penarth Times. Almost every household in the posh seaside town bought a copy. Then the proprietor decided we could do the same with a new weekly in the great metropolis that was Cardiff. He called it the Cardiff and District News and not only made me the editor of the teenage page but the circulation manager, too. Sort of.
