Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion

No One Is More Responsible For Britains Current Obsession With Celebrity Culture Than The Late, Great Gossip Columnist Nigel Dempster (1941-2007). For A Quarter Of A Century, As The Editor Of The Daily Mails Diary, He Was The Man Perfectly Placed And Qualified To Record - And Accelerate - The End Of The Age Of Deference.