Southbank Centre yanks Daily Mail ads over ‘homophobic’ article

Southbank Centre has joined Center Parcs in pulling advertising from the Daily Mail, following a controversial online article by columnist Richard Littlejohn that rounded on diver Tom Daley and his husband, who are expecting a child.

In a statement on Twitter, the London venue said: “Southbank Centre reaches out to audiences through wide-ranging online and offline media titles, across the political spectrum. We monitor the environment in which our advertising appears, to ensure the values of a publication are compatible with our own. We have no future plans to advertise within the Daily Mail.”