Paul Dacre once asked a colleague what they thought of something. The Daily Mail journalist started to reply: “On the one hand…” The editor said: “Stop. We’re not The Independent, we don’t do on the one hand and on the other. We’re the Daily Mail. We have one hand.”
That same view is besetting Rupert Murdoch as he grapples with the succession of his newspapers and TV empire. Three of his adult children, James, Elisabeth and Prudence, are more to the centre in their views — definably “Leftie” in the eyes of the patriarch. The other, Lachlan, is firmly of the Right.
