What a delight when Friday Dunnes

There is an antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding modern journalism with plunging circulations and tales of multi-skilled journalists slaving 70 hours a week. It is called Gentleman Ranters the website that beerily relives the glory days of the national press in Fleet Street and Manchester. The jewel in Ranters' crown is the brilliant ex-Mirror feature writer Colin Dunne. Every Friday I scan Ranters hoping that Dunne has filed a new memoir. His tribute to the Mail's great Vincent Mulchrone and his meeting with the mysterious Eric Wainwright are gems of journalism. Stop Press: Ranters has re-run the Wainwright piece this week on its main site here after receiving a number of queries asking "who was Eric Wainwright?"