36 Facts About Richard Littlejohn

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Richard Littlejohn was born on 18 January 1954 and is an English author, broadcaster and journalist.

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Richard Littlejohn writes a twice-weekly column for the Daily Mail about British affairs as observed from reading the news at home in Florida.

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Richard Littlejohn earned a place in the inaugural Press Gazette Newspaper Hall of Fame as one of the most influential journalists of the past 40 years.

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Richard Littlejohn was awarded the title of "Columnist of the Year" at the 1997 British Press Awards.

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Richard Littlejohn has been criticised for insufficient fact checking and for alleged homophobia.

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Primarily a newspaper journalist, Richard Littlejohn has presented numerous radio and television shows and has authored or co-authored several books.

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Richard Littlejohn's family moved to Peterborough when he was five.

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Richard Littlejohn's father worked as a policeman and later as a manager for British Rail.

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Richard Littlejohn attended West Town Primary School where he passed the eleven-plus, obtaining the highest marks in his year.

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Richard Littlejohn was offered a public school scholarship which he turned down because the school did not play football, and subsequently attended Deacon's School in Dogsthorpe, Peterborough.

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At 16, Richard Littlejohn found employment as a trainee journalist in Peterborough.

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Richard Littlejohn worked for local newspapers during the early 1970s.

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Richard Littlejohn worked at the London newspaper the Evening Standard from 1979 to 1989, initially as industrial editor, later a feature writer, then in 1988 as a columnist.

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The Sun sought an injunction to prevent Richard Littlejohn writing for the Mail before his existing contract with them ended in February 2006, but the matter was later settled out of court and Richard Littlejohn began writing for the Mail in December 2005.

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In December 2006 Richard Littlejohn said the murders of the five prostitutes in Ipswich by the serial killer Steve Wright, was "No great loss".

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In December 2010, Richard Littlejohn satirised an incident in which a 20-year-old man with cerebral palsy, Jody McIntyre, complained of mistreatment by police at a protest.

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Richard Littlejohn argued that the young man involved should not have attended the protest, and compared him to Andy Pipkin from Little Britain.

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In December 2012, the Daily Mail published an apology following a piece written by Richard Littlejohn which suggested that ethnic minority staff had got their jobs through discrimination and had threatened to sue the Equality and Human Rights Commissions.

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In February 2011, Richard Littlejohn wrote in his Daily Mail column that Haringey Council was using taxpayer funds for hopscotch lessons for Asian women.

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In December 2012, Richard Littlejohn wrote an article criticising the decision of Accrington teacher Lucy Meadows to return to the same school after undergoing Gender Reassignment Surgery.

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Richard Littlejohn repeatedly misgendered Meadows and stated: "he's not only trapped in the wrong body, he's in the wrong job".

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Richard Littlejohn's article was later removed from the Daily Mails website following Meadows' death.

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In 2013, Richard Littlejohn was accused of taking insufficient care to check the facts before publishing an article critical of cookery writer and poverty campaigner Jack Monroe.

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Richard Littlejohn suggested that Monroe chose to give up her job.

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Richard Littlejohn incorrectly suggested that Monroe was an unemployed welfare claimant.

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26.

On 15 February 2018, Richard Littlejohn, writing for his Daily Mail column, focused on the news that Tom Daley and his husband Dustin Lance Black were expecting their first child.

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Richard Littlejohn stated that while he supported fostered children being brought up by loving, gay partners, as opposed to living in state institutions, he nonetheless adhered to his belief that children "benefit most from being raised by a man and a woman".

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Richard Littlejohn criticised that in many cases of male gay relationships, Daley and Black included, women were being seen as "mere breeding machines" and that offspring were shown off like "commodities".

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LBC later gave Richard Littlejohn an early afternoon show, Richard Littlejohn's Long Lunch; the programme was a talk show featuring topical discussion, phone-ins, and guests.

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Richard Littlejohn later became permanent presenter of the morning show, replacing Michael Parkinson.

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Richard Littlejohn deputised for Jimmy Young on BBC Radio 2 and hosted football phone-ins on BBC Radio 5 Live.

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On Richard Littlejohn's show of 8 July 1994, he was critical of two lesbians, one of whom was Linda Bellos.

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Richard Littlejohn hosted the first series of Channel 4's game show Wanted, as a stand-in for Bob Mills.

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Richard Littlejohn has appeared on BBC One's Question Time and Have I Got News for You.

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Richard Littlejohn is a keen football fan and since the late 1960s has been a supporter of Tottenham Hotspur.

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Richard Littlejohn has starred in his own football video, We Woz Robbed.