"You have made a number of attacks, trying to smear me, suggesting that I am wearing the proprietor's hat..  Where I think the scandal lies is that people like yourself can attack me under parliamentary privilege and the fact that the rest of Fleet Street does not bother to try to find out whether the stories are correct...  All that has happened is that you have put down a series of libellous motions attacking me and attacking my proprietor without a shred of evidence.."

 The Observer's executive editor Adam Raphael, rebuking Labour MP Dale Campbell-Savours over Campbell-Savours' Parliamentary attacks alleging that he and other Observer journalists were the "lapdogs" of The Observer's chairman, Tiny Rowland - attacks which Campbell-Savours had been conducting in cahoots with The Guardian's editor Peter Preston as part of a covert campaign to compel The Observer's owners, Lonrho plc, to sell the paper to enable The Guardian to snap it up as its own Sunday Broadsheet.

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