Damian Thompson

Damian Mark Thompson (born 24 January 1962) is a conservative British journalist best known for being editor-in-chief of the Catholic Herald. He was a reporter on The Reading Chronicle from 1984 to 1988 and was religious affairs correspondent for the Daily Telegraph from 1991 to 1995. He still contributes to the Daily Telegraph, as well as The Times and The Spectator.

'Beebwatch'

Thompson wrote the Daily Telegraph’s Beebwatch column which ran three times a week for two months in late 2003. 26 articles were printed between early September and early November that year, each claiming to show evidence of a left-wing bias in the BBC’s output. Beebwatch was written with the help of Minotaur Media Tracking, a right-wing media monitoring group directed and co-owned by Kathy Gyngell and David Keighley, the widow and close friend respectively of Thatcher’s favourite television executive, the late Bruce Gyngell.

Robert Spencer

In July 2007, Ed West interviewed Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch for the Catholic Herald.

Thompson plugged the interview on his Telegraph blog, writing of Spencer's work:

How about this for a refreshingly direct book title? Religion of Peace? Why Christianity Is and Islam Isn’t. Or this: The Truth about Muhammad: Founder of the World’s Most Intolerant Religion

He went on to add:

Major bookstores, gutlessly, refuse to stock Spencer’s work. So here is a link to his main titles. I’d particularly recommend them to anyone who still believes sentimental nonsense about the Religion of Peace or its founder. (For some reason, the name Karen Armstrong springs to mind.)