So the Daily Telegraph has finally published Lynn Barber's review of the Bill Deedes biography. It was run on page 28 of the review section on Saturday, and it is on the paper's website under the presumably ironic heading, An honest reading of Bill Deedes.
There was no mention of the chapter entitled "A stinking mob" in which the author, Stephen Robinson, deals with Deedes's criticism of the paper's owners, the Barclay brothers.
Media Guardian reported ten days ago that the Telegraph had spiked Barber's review of Robinson's fine book, The Remarkable Lives of Bill Deedes. It claimed, referring to "sources at the title", that the book had been laid out as the lead review for the Saturday books pages until deputy editor Tony Gallagher stepped in.
What has changed in a week? Did someone decide that Barber's review was uncontroversial after all? Or was it censored? Barber assures me that it wasn't. "It was just as I wrote it," she told me. "I just can't see what all the fuss was about." Indeed.
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