David Baddiel has ‘no plans’ to write for Jewish Chronicle amid fabrication row

For free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }} David Baddiel has “no plans” to write for the Jewish Chronicle following columnists resigning from the newspaper over allegations about its coverage being inaccurate. Baddiel’s spokesman told the PA news agency: “David has no plans to write any more columns for the paper but there is no further comment at this stage.” The comedian and Three Lions singer has written generally every few months for the Jewish Chronicle. As you know, I and others have long urged transparency, making that case to you privately – but nothing has happened.” The columnist, who started in 1998 at the paper and whose father worked there, said he hopes to return, if the Jewish Chronicle “returns to its best traditions”. It also said in the online statement: “The Jewish Chronicle maintains the highest journalistic standards in a highly contested information landscape and we deeply regret the chain of events that led to this point.” Freedland said the post showed the “thinnest form of contrition”, and said his bond to the Jewish Chronicle is why he stuck with it “even as it departed from the traditions that built its reputation as the world’s oldest Jewish newspaper”.