Lefties A Lot Of Balls

News on Sunday was a leftwing tabloid that launched to great fanfare in 1987 and went bankrupt just eight weeks later It was one of the boldest business ventures ever attempted by the far left and it was a disaster A group who met through a tiny leftwing faction called Big Flame were convinced it was possible to market a leftwing masscirculation newspaper They were led by exFord worker Alan Hayling now head of BBC Documentaries under the editorial leadership of John Pilger who walked out before the paper had even launched