User:AdamRaphael

I am Adam Raphael, the journalist who worked for the Guardian, The Observer, the BBC etc. There are a number of errors in the Wikipedia article about me which should be corrected. Please see Who's Who where the facts are correct.

Errors in the Wikipedia article on Adam Raphael

1. I have never been a member of the Territorial Army. I did National Service as a 2nd Lieutenant from 1956-58, and then left the army. 2. I was briefly (for a year 1987) a presenter on Newsnight, but I was never an assistant editor or executive editor of Newsnight. 3. I was, however, made Executive Editor of the Observer when I returned to that paper in 1988, and remained in that post until I left the Observer in 1993. I then was employed by The Economist as a political specialist until 2004. 4. The account of the Jeffrey Archer case is muddled. I gave evidence under subpoena in the original Archer libel trial in 1987. My evidence was critical because I disclosed a conversation with Archer in which he admitted that he had met the prostitute Monica Coghlan. The jury however preferred to believe Archer's account, and he was awarded £500,000 in libel damages. 6. Following the Archer trial, I wrote a book; 'My Learned Friends' which disclosed that Archer had dinner with his key alibi witness, Terence Baker, a theatrical agent whom he had told the jury he rarely saw. The implication was that Archer had fabricated alibi evidence. 7. In 2001 when Archer decided to run for Mayor of London, I wrote an article in the Economist which pointed out that the mayoral candidate had left many unanswered questions about his libel trial, not least the fact that he had asked me if I would change my evidence in his favour.