29-411: Rachel Sabiha Johnson (born 3 September 1965) is a British journalist, television presenter, and author who has appeared frequently on political discussion panels, including The Pledge on Sky News and BBC One 's debate programme, Question Time . In January 2018, she participated in the 21st series of Celebrity Big Brother and was evicted second. She was the lead candidate for Change UK for
58-554: A Lib Dem candidate in a seat in the West Country, but was barred under the party's rules, having been a member for less than a year. In April 2019, she joined the new anti-Brexit party Change UK and was the lead candidate on the party list in South West England at the 2019 European Parliament election . She later lamented this decision, describing herself as the "rat that jumped onto a sinking ship" and criticised
87-468: A more Eurosceptic stance. In January 2020, The Mail on Sunday was ordered to pay £180,000 in damages to a former council official in Rochdale due to a false article from May 2017. It falsely alleged that the man issued taxi licences to drivers involved in the town's child sexual abuse ring . Waj Iqbal believed that the false accusations were solely because he was of the same Pakistani background as
116-506: A task force of new journalists, redesigned and re-launched The Mail on Sunday . Over three-and-a-half months English managed to halt the paper's decline, and its circulation increased to 840,000. Three new sections were introduced: a sponsored partwork , the initial one forming a cookery book; then a colour comic supplement, an innovation in the British Sunday newspaper market); and lastly, You magazine. The newspaper's next editor
145-679: Is a British conservative newspaper, published in a tabloid format. Founded in 1982 by Lord Rothermere , it is the biggest-selling Sunday newspaper in the UK. Its sister paper, the Daily Mail , was first published in 1896. In July 2011, following the closure of the News of the World , The Mail on Sunday sold 2.5 million copies a week—making it Britain's biggest-selling Sunday newspaper—but by September that had fallen back to just under 2 million. Like
174-608: Is a granddaughter of Sir James Fawcett , a prominent barrister and president of the European Commission of Human Rights . Johnson's middle name, Sabiha, means "morning" in Arabic and is often used as a given name in Turkey. It was the name of the second wife of her great-grandfather, Ali Kemal, who was a daughter of Zeki Pasha . Stanley Johnson befriended his paternal half-uncle Zeki Kuneralp , Sabiha's son, when Kuneralp
203-615: Is a great-granddaughter of Ali Kemal , a liberal Circassian-Turkish journalist and the interior minister in the government of Damat Ferid Pasha , Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire , who was murdered during the Turkish War of Independence in 1922. During the First World War , her grandfather and great-aunt were recognised as British subjects and took their grandmother's maiden name of Johnson. On her mother's side she
232-519: Is a panel discussion programme broadcast on Sky News . There are currently ten panellists, five of whom appear on the show each week. They discuss a variety of topics – there is no presenter, so each panellist champions a topic which is then debated. The programme was first announced in April 2016, and the first episode aired later that month, on 21 April 2016. The show is known for at times being controversial, and debates often get heated. The Pledge
261-522: Is currently not on air having been suspended in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic . It is currently unknown when or if the show will return. Each show comprises five panellists from various professions in the entertainment and journalism industries. Each panellist chooses a subject, then clearly states their argument before passing it to the table. The panellists are then given the chance to challenge
290-681: The Evening Standard and other regular columns for Easy Living and She magazines, as well as the Financial Times . She is a contributing editor of The Spectator and until 2009 was a weekly columnist on The Sunday Times and the Evening Standard , among other publications. She now writes a weekly column in The Mail on Sunday , a column for The Big Issue and a column for The Oldie . In April 2014 she
319-752: The Daily Mail , it is owned by the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), but the editorial staffs of the two papers are entirely separate. It had an average weekly circulation of 1,284,121 in December 2016; this had fallen to 673,525 by December 2022. In April 2020, the Society of Editors announced that the Mail on Sunday was the winner of the Sunday Newspaper of the Year for 2019. The Mail on Sunday
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#1732779639272348-655: The Daily Mail' s editor-in-chief Paul Dacre , who had served on the body from 1999 to April 2008. The PCC issued two reports, in 2007 and 2009, which were compiled in ignorance of the significant information from the Mail group about the hacking of its journalists’ phones. According to The Guardian journalist Nick Davies , whose revelations had resulted in the News of the World phone hacking trial and subsequent conviction of Andy Coulson , this reinforced News International 's "rogue reporter" defence. The PCC's 2009 report, which had rejected Davies' claims of widespread hacking at
377-520: The Metropolitan Police in 2006 that their mobile phones had been hacked even though Wright, who was editor of the Mail on Sunday , had been made aware of the hacking. The facts did not emerge until several years later, when they were revealed in evidence at the News of the World phone hacking trial . Wright became a member of the PCC from May 2008. He took over the place previously held by
406-476: The News of the World , was retracted when it became clear that they were true. Wright and Dacre both failed to mention the hacking of the four Mail on Sunday staff in the evidence they gave to the Leveson Inquiry in 2012. In April 2022, the Mail on Sunday published an article which alleged that unnamed Conservative Party MPs claimed that Labour's deputy leader Angela Rayner tried to distract
435-515: The Prime Minister , Boris Johnson , by crossing and uncrossing her legs. The article was widely condemned, with Johnson describing it as "sexist tripe". The Speaker of the House of Commons , Sir Lindsay Hoyle , called the story "misogynistic and offensive" and requested a meeting with the Mail on Sunday 's editor, David Dillon . In response to the invitation, the Daily Mail published
464-533: The South West England constituency in the 2019 European Parliament election . Johnson is the daughter of former Conservative MEP Stanley Johnson and artist Charlotte Johnson Wahl ( née Fawcett). She is the younger sister of Boris Johnson , the former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Conservative MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip ; and the elder sister of Jo Johnson , former Conservative MP for Orpington . On her father's side, Johnson
493-739: The 2008 Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, which she described as being an "absolute honour". Her short story "Severely Gifted" appeared in The Sunday Times on 21 December 2008. Johnson was a member of the Conservative Party from 2008 to 2011, but later joined the Liberal Democrats in the run up to the 2017 general election because of the Conservative support for Brexit . Johnson then considered becoming
522-472: The Mail newspaper organisation withheld important evidence about phone hacking from the PCC when the latter held its inquiry into the News of the World's interception of voicemail messages . Specifically, the PCC was not informed that four Mail on Sunday journalists—investigations editor Dennis Rice, news editor Sebastian Hamilton, deputy news editor David Dillon and feature writer Laura Collins—had been told by
551-543: The abusers. In February 2021, the High Court found that The Mail on Sunday acted unlawfully when it published a letter that Meghan, Duchess of Sussex had sent to her father. The newspaper was sued for her £1.5 million legal fees, and ordered to issue a front-page apology. Under Peter Wright's editorship of the Mail on Sunday and his membership of the Press Complaints Commission (PCC) ,
580-529: The ninth editor of The Lady , a weekly magazine established in 1885. Her first few months were the subject of a Channel 4 documentary entitled The Lady and the Revamp ; this was nominated for a Grierson Award. She was replaced as editor by Matt Warren in January 2012. In March 2013 she presented an hour-long documentary for BBC Four entitled How to Be a Lady: An Elegant History . Johnson's Shire Hell won
609-666: The party leadership's focus-group attitude to decision-making structure and added that Change UK was a "terrible" name. Johnson is married to Ivo Dawnay, a descendant of William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe , and maternal grandson of Patrick Boyle, 8th Earl of Glasgow . Dawnay is a director and consultant with the National Trust . They have three children. Johnson lives in Notting Hill in London and Exmoor , Somerset . The Pledge (British TV programme) The Pledge
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#1732779639272638-608: The person if they disagree and debate it. Topics discussed cover topical issues in the news such as politics and current affairs. The Pledge is pre-recorded on a Thursday in Studio F at Sky Campus in Osterley , and then broadcast on Thursdays at 8pm on Sky News. It is also broadcast on Sundays at 8pm as well as at other times during the week to fill slots. List in alphabetical order. List in alphabetical order. The Mail on Sunday Defunct The Mail on Sunday
667-511: The sixth week of its launch, sales were peaking at 700,000. Its sports coverage was seen to be among its weaknesses at the time of its launch. The Mail on Sunday' s first back-page splash was a report from Lisbon on the roller hockey world championships , although this was on a match against Argentina during the Falklands War . Lord Rothermere , then the proprietor, brought in the Daily Mail ' s editor David English , who, with
696-669: The student paper Isis . In 1989 she joined the staff of the Financial Times , becoming the first female graduate trainee at the paper, where she wrote about the economy. She spent a year on secondment to the Foreign Office Policy Planning Staff in 1992–93. She moved to the BBC in 1994, but left to move to Washington, D.C. , as a columnist and freelancer in 1997. She has written weekly columns for The Sunday Telegraph , The Daily Telegraph ,
725-541: Was Stewart Steven . The newspaper's circulation grew from around one million to just under two million during his time. Although its sister paper the Daily Mail has invariably supported the Conservative Party , Steven backed the SDP / Liberal Alliance in the 1983 General Election . The subsequent editors were Jonathan Holborow, Peter Wright and Geordie Greig , who became editor of the Daily Mail in September 2018 and
754-755: Was Turkish ambassador to the Court of St James's in the 1960s. She was educated at Winsford First School on Exmoor , Primrose Hill Primary in Camden, north London, the European School of Brussels , the independent Ashdown House School in East Sussex, Bryanston School in Dorset and St Paul's Girls' School . In 1984 she spent three months as a kibbutz volunteer and then went to New College, Oxford , to read Classics ( Literae Humaniores ); there she edited
783-521: Was a judge in the BBC Woman's Hour power list 2014. She sits on the boards of Bright Blue , the modernising Tory think-tank, and Intelligence Squared , the international debate forum. In March 2014 she appeared in Famous, Rich and Hungry on BBC1. She is a former panellist on Sky News ' weekly debate show, The Pledge , production of which was suspended in 2020. In September 2009, Johnson became
812-619: Was launched on 2 May 1982 to complement the Daily Mail , the first time Associated Newspapers had published a national Sunday title since it closed the Sunday Dispatch in 1961. The first story on the front page was the Royal Air Force 's bombing of Stanley airport in the Falkland Islands . The newspaper's owner, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), initially wanted a circulation of 1.25 million. By
841-580: Was replaced at the Sunday title by Ted Verity . In 2021, Verity left to edit the Daily Mail and was replaced by his deputy David Dillon . In the 2016 United Kingdom European Union membership referendum , the paper, unlike its daily counterpart, came out unequivocally in favour of the Remain campaign . The Mail on Sunday has, following the change of editor from Geordie Greig to Ted Verity , shifted to
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