These days Allison Pearson loves nothing more than free speech. So surely she won’t care about us exercising ours to remind her that this wasn't the case five years ago.
Back in 2019 Allison was busy demanding that The Telegraph should delete one of her columns from years earlier. The column in question was an excoriating takedown of The Voice, for the crime of not selecting Pearson’s daughter to advance past the audition stage on the show.
In it she attacked BBC bosses for their evident bias against children with "happy middle-class childhoods", and their decision to allow contestants who were partially sighted and "clinically obese".
Six years later Allison begged Telegraph bosses to take it down, unhappy that it still appeared in searches for her and her daughter's name online – particularly because said daughter was now interested in trying out for the show once again.
It’s not the only issue Allison has had with Telegraph higher-ups over the years. She was also often known in the past to complain about her stories not having a prime enough slot on the homepage.
Not that we’re suggesting her subsequent slide further to the right has anything to do with numbers-chasing.
