Download or read book Nigel Dempster and the Death of Discretion written by Tim Willis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-09-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No one is more responsible for Britain"s 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 Mail"s diary, he was the man perfectly placed and qualified to record - and accelerate - the end of the age of deference.