The Lynch Mob is: a) the bunch of evil Iraqis who held a helpless Jessica Lynch captive until brave Americans staged a dramatic rescue b) the bunch of journalists who've exposed that story as a complete myth. HarperCollins is caught in the crossfire.

"It is a pity that Kenneth Peacock Tynan will be remembered — if at all — as the English producer of the longest running sex-revue, Oh! Calcutta!, and for creating a huge national scandal by saying “fuck” for the first time on BBC." Aveek Sen on the Diaries.