The report into the 1989 Hillsborough disaster once again exposes the role of ‘The Sun’ as a generator of lies on behalf of the police and the powerful. With the bodies of 95 (later 96) men, women, and children barely cold, ‘The Sun’ published the most sickening calumnies, cooked up by South Yorkshire Police to try and take the heat off themselves. These smears included lurid tales about drunken Liverpool fans urinating over emergency workers, stealing from the dead, and even orchestrating the disaster.

While most of us wouldn’t deign to spit on a copy of ‘The Sun’, it is worth noting that the filthy lies generated by South Yorkshire Police did not appear there first, but in another lying rag; Sheffield’s own ‘The Star’ newspaper. Their disgusting coverage can be viewed in the PDF above.

Like ‘The Sun’, ‘The Star’ has long been little more than a mouth-piece for South Yorkshire Police and other powerful local interests, and it continues to fulfil that role today as it did in 1989.