will you please STOP describing me as "disgraced pop mogul" - lazy reporting; I'm not disgraced at all (indeed, graceful would be more appropriate); I'm no longer at all POPular and I've never been a "mogul" - what the fuck IS a Mogul in 21st Century Britain?

Could you please describe me, if you must, as "sex symbol, writer, talent spotter and all round good guy"?

Far more accurate.

Maybe we should be doing a column, where we describe the Press as "The Disgraced Press Assosciation". It would sound befittingly accurate.

1. also Mo·ghul (m-gl, m-) or Mu·ghal (m-gl)
a. A member of the force that under Baber conquered India in 1526.
b. A member of the Muslim dynasty founded by Baber that ruled India until 1857.
2. A Mongol or Mongolian.
3. mogul A very rich or powerful person; a magnate.

My mother still insists that you owned the Empire State Building in New York.

Indeed...every single person who is connected with what is called "Fleet Street" including members of the Press Association and all media moguls (poor old Rupert) must be now referred to as "the disgraced"..after Leveson.

In fact The Met should always be "the disgraced"..maybe not so much the prison & civil services.

Sir Harold Evans is correct to slam the current crop of clueless hacks who still demand the right to be the arbiters of history and public morals.