We need to talk about Kelvin
As is now very well known, the response of the Sun newspaper to the Hillsborough disaster was to mount a front page attack on the fans. Under the fateful headline “The Truth” the paper printed the vilest lies about the victims of the horrific event. The supporters, it was alleged, urinated on police, stole from their own dead, beat up rescue workers, and caused the problems in the first place through widespread drunkenness. The editor of the paper and the man who decided on the headline was Kelvin McKenzie. On 10 September McKenzie issued the apology he had spent the last 23 years aggressively...