Guardian Surrenders Editorial Control for £15k
The withdrawal of public sector job advertising was always going hurt The Guardian, but it looks as if they are finding new craftier ways of propping up their bloated business model on the public purse. Wendy Miller, the rather grandly named Public Sector Manager, has been emailing local councils and asking them to cough up £15,000 to “sponsor” a Guardian supplement entitled “The Future of Public Services”:
Given the clamp down on public sector lobbying, Guido should think the Guardian got their cash as councils look for new ways to promote their interests, but why are they still encouraging public money to be wasted on promotion and council aggrandisement? The fact that they are willing to surrender editorial direction for money some what weakens their “look at the culture of public services in the context of a general election and the current financial situation.” While their columnists bleat at the evil cuts, the management side are still scrambling for the taxpayer teat.
Its crap anyway
Crap or no crap – if they’re taking public funds to use for the usual bullshit and bollocks, then . . . . cut their balls off! , , , RIGHT OFF!!!!!
And as for public funded bodies who contribute, why, then they’re getting too much public money! Cut it off!
Translation for BoringLiars at about the same IQ level as Presscloth : You’re fucked!! Bugger off!
Or in Frank Fisher’s eloquent phrase – carousel propaganda.
Fuck the Guardian and all who sail in it.
I don’t fancy Michael White. Or Moonbat. Or Polly Twaddle, come to that.
Think I’ll take my carnal pleasures elsewhere.
At my age I have to take them where I can. But even I would draw the line at these …..
I would prefer to do the Page 3 girls if you do not mind
Hypocrites at the Gaurdian , Whatever next ………… Bent MPS
I most certainly never was!
How many Labour Concils will apply i wonder ………..
I would not wipe my dead dog’s arse on the grunndfiad. The printed word of the waste of space socialist scum that have ruined this country.
Fawkes, talking of the grauniad, how about a piece on the stunning hypocracy of pointless polly. Think of all those pieces glossing over and justifying the failures of her former heroes, and now, they offer milliband specimen d and milliband specimen e , a spot of advice and she gets her tits in the mangle over it.
Better hers in a mangle than on Page 3
A very edifying, if somewhat bloody, metaphor you have there.
I am always right.
I am never wrong.
And, let’s be clear, – I am rich enough to be a socialist.
But things are getting desperate, – I’M GETTING DESPERATE!!
I haven’t had relief for . . . two days at least!
I’ll just lay back and . . . forget the cuts . . and think of Gordon
Ah . . that’s better . . . so relaxing . . . mmmm . . . where’s the remote? . . I’ll play one of his speeches . . ohhhhh!
His voice! . . . his penetrating yet logical thrusts that respond to my inner thoughts and desires . . . !
His hands! . . how they move to demonstrate his strong manly grasp of my finer points that so yearn to be manipulated and . . .
Oh . . my hands . . I’m clenching my teeth . . I cannot talk . . no don’t help . . I’m nearly gone . . gone into status polytwadlicus . . and it could be a biigy!
Then I must write something for my adoring Grouniad readers – they expect it – even after this.
Do you think they are still pissed about backing clegg ?
The New Statesmen will offer editorial control for a tenner. We’re desperate.
..and by the way you are all animals of no intelligence.
SQUIIIIIIIIIIIRRRR… (stare) (crest) CL x (1/2 pV2) x S!!! (squit)
Lift equations are all very good in your soupy atmosphere, my feathered amigo. But here in the infinite inky wastes of interstellar space, we have nothing but miniskirted minions that are helpless at our Captainly charms to keep us entertained. We modelled it on your House of Commons and your SPodDs. Warp factor Seven, Mister Sulu!
Can I have my fizzy orange now, nurse or mummy? I forget who’s who round here.
You can have you fizzy after you’ve saved the world, gordmong.
Come and suck on nursie’s dick you one eyed mong.
We will do the same but pay you to come to our wonderful site .
How about we have a whip round and buy some influence and state the facts not properganda ?
If only they were capitalists they might survive the Tory revolution. Too bad they aren’t. Oh yeah, haha.
the advertising budget for councils should be zero as their income is fixed and in no way driven by any sales volumes. kind of like the bbc.
They still need to recruit (and post planning notices, promote upcoming programmes) The fact they have a territorial monopoly on the provision of a list of services is common to them both. Some budget is needed for these essential functions – but reasonable measures to reduce them should be found.
The battleground is the sum of the purse.
perhaps they could do an in depth investigation into the “suicide” of Dr Kelly?
You could start things off by giving us a MOTIVE for having him killed?
He threatened Tone’s Holy War. how’s that for starters?
Or viewed from the other side – he failed to delay the start of the war…
Maybe the government wouldn’t need make so many cuts if so much public money hadn’t been wasted on keeping the Guardian afloat all these years.
the government threw money at advertising in the guardian. did they advertise anywhere else? doesn’t sound like they tendered properly anyway. its as bad as giving taxpayers money to unions who promptly donate it to the labour party
The Government, Sir, has been, under Labour, the largest Advertising client in Europe for the past 12 years outspending both Ford and Unilever to attain the title. In 1997 questions were asked in your House of Commons about the Government advertising expenditure of £37m in 2008 the expenditure was closing in on £300m. The marketing services industry, even T. Bell and M. Saatchi, just loved Labour and it was absolutely nothing to do with their politics just their money.
or into the rubbish equipment given to troops in the sand pit?
Makes no difference what they have the Mujahideen have got the home turf and have been killing for a donkeys years,The army don’t stand a fucking chance,they never see the enemy,just the result.and its freaking them out.Not to mention killing them
Will Polly need to have a pay cut as well as her husband loesing his job ………………………Oh the joy
Is Billy the new nell?
Is Billy the old Freddie?
and For Billy Bowden
Ell: No Bye. Typo
does anybody have the numbers on how much money went to the guardian advertising all those make-work jobs? and how much they get from other sources?
how’s the guardian looking overall?
Totally O/T (well, except that as it’s vaguely “nuclear”, the good old Grauniad would get it’s knickers in a twist over it), has anybody heard of Thorium?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/7970619/Obama-could-kill-fossil-fuels-overnight-with-a-nuclear-dash-for-thorium.html
It seems that there’s another possibility in the offing to supply our energy needs. Some rather wild claims are made about Thorium’s possible contribution; personally, I’m a tad sceptical – we’ve had too many “ultimate answers” before, but it might make a contribution.
A mining by product deemed useless and binned.Mind you so was Uranium at first.But it was used from 64 to 69 in a reactor
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorium
c.f. Tom Lehrer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_(song)
A man after my own heart.
And probably several other organs.
Thorium is AFIAK another fissile material – regard it as an alternative to uranium and plutonium for normal nuclear reactors. In theory it should be cheaper and offer few weapons proliferation problems when used as an energy source. Also teh crap produced is ‘easier’ to deal with (easier being a relative term!!)
Is that offer from Rudd to bury it in the heart of Aus still open?
Can’t we bury nuclear waste in Tony Bliar’s back garden (s) ??
And perhaps, equally helpful, bury Phoney Bliar in there with it?
http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf62.html
Nothing terribly new technically in what Evans-Pritchard has to say, but it is good to see it being pointed out (for the greenies, that should mean forcibly) that U and Pu are not the end of the nuclear power story.
The rational advantages of thorium reactors for energy have always played second fiddle to the military’s requirements for uranium and plutonium processing for loud bangs, and to the civil engineering contractors’ expertise in those fuels. In particular, if a reactor has walk-away safety integral in its design, there’s no need for elaborate safety systems in case of meltdown – which can reduce the build cost significantly, but result in much slimmer government contracts and leaner pickings for the nuclear cartel.
will the greenies on principle refuse to use electricity generated by nuclear power? I thought not.
In an electricity supply market without subsidies, lower capital cost would be attractive, especially if the reactors turned out to be relatively safe and easy to operate, generated good amounts of electricity, and didn’t have such serious residual waste problems that U and Pu do. Maybe private funding might be found, thus removing the dead hand of Government Subsidy, and all that goes with it – but given the projected scale of R&D investment required, the return would have to be colossal to attract it.
The Thorium isn’t going to disappear any time soon, so maybe the science will remain on the back burner until fossil fuels become scarcer and more expensive. At that point (some would argue that we are close to it, or have reached it) developing the technology becomes more pressing. The emphasis currently is on the “renewables”, and vast quantities of money and resources are being thrown at them. When it finally sinks in that you need huge amounts of plant to extract not much power that way, minds might be focussed, but at present the political world is looking in the wrong direction.
Interesting. Definitely feasible, but would need a lot of R&D. Certainly wouldn’t happen overnight, if at all.
Typical to see that the latest research is being carried out in Britain, but that they are looking for foreign partners because they can’t get the investment here.
If Cameroon’s really keen on non-carbon energy, he could help enormously by sponsoring the development of this technology here, as a real exportable adder of value as well as a secure energy source.
I’ll ask Von Rumpey
There’s a man who knows his place!
Oh come on. Are you really an engineer?
Do you think a politicians and newspapers solve scientific and engineering problems?
of note in the article:
“named after the Norse god of thunder, who also gave us Thor’s day or Thursday”
“Thorium eats its own hazardous waste”
And theres at least three indicators of lunacy in there.
A) no-one believes us:
“When Hungarian scientists led by Leo Szilard tried to alert Washington in late 1939 that the Nazis were working on an atomic bomb, they were brushed off with disbelief.”
B) Its a french conspiracy to protect their interests.
C) mention “Albert Einstein”
This just shows its the last sodding day of august.
On the other hand the idea is a real one, but bloody expensive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_amplifier
I’d still think it would be much more fun to waste that money making a 1000mph vacuum tube maglev. I have no idea from where to where.l
Join us brothers,link it to ours across the top of the world, The yanks are fucked now.We are the new world order. Join us while theres a chance.
PS.
We got gas and oil.
East Berks to Selhurst Park would be a start.
Well, I did say I was sceptical about the claim that it might be the “magic bullet” of energy generation, and – yes – I share your distrust of journalistic hyperbole.
With a certain resigned cynicism, I’d agree about the chances of missing the boat whilst trying to argue with committees and outsmart vested interests, but if there is a technology here that offers the chance of generating substantial amounts of energy from a relatively freely-available fuel, some R&D is essential, if only to find out what the limitations and disadvantages are (all methods of power generation have those).
By the way, our old friend Brunel built a vacuum-powered railway in the South-West many moons ago. It worked well until rats started eating bits of it, destroying the vacuum. There was something similar proposed (or trialled) for the London Underground, but that had some practical problems as well.
“missing the boat” is the kind of thing that is the basis for massively keynsian intervention. France is always at it. TGV, nuclear power, hover trains, and a currently massively keen for wind turbines. Its never really been worth getting on the bandwagon, before theres even a band.
Vacuum maglev: no – i mean that the trains run in sealed tubes with reduced air pressure so they can run above 330m/s.
A very crazy idea that has peculiar advantages, and if you were as crackers as brunel (not a fan of his you know), you could get one running in 5-10 years. Probably to bristol which would be pointless.
Getting things to go fast can be quite easy. Getting them to stop again, where you want them to, is usually the tricky bit.
er the clue is in the word maglev,as in magnet.thats what you use to stop were you want to.
Maglev – talk to the Germans. They built a full-size development system. Then gave it up. Can’t remember why.
Many things sound feasible, or easy, until you try to do them. Then you find the tricky bits.
He’s 95 and used to drive a steam loco, one of Fred Dibnas mates
He’s 95 and used to d*rive a steam loco, one of Fred Dibnas mates
The slight drawback to this is that all mathematicians and physicists now work in Canary Wharf and Wall Street hedge funds for £1000 per day. Scientific advancement died in the 90s with the advent of derivatives.
derivatives!
Thats a bomb still to detonate yet.
Again, AFAIK, it’s beloved of nuclear scientists who scent a ‘test reactor’ project in the offing. Back in the real world, off-the-shelf reactors using the Uranium cycle provide reliable electricity to (among others) the French.
There are other, similarly promising, technologies out there – including the pebble bed reactor (which suffers still from the taint of being a Nazi technology) and the Rolls-Royce variable flux reactor which never fulfilled its early promise. For all I know, it is still a technology owned by the Aero Engines division, rather than the German autmotive arm of the company.
Say what you like, the Guardian is still the medium most committed to proper reporting with a degree of intelligence. It’s written by people with brains and a dedication to journalism. The self-congratulatory student-union cleverness may be a bit wearing, but I wish there were a liberal-right equivalent. The Times comes close but somehow we sense that its heart isn’t really in it any more.
getting stalked again Bill.
It’s certainly the only way I know of finding out what’s going on at the Tossergraph since Fred and Dave Bonkers bought it.
….and a fiver for Micheal White’s arse……
Has he increased his prices ??
I noticed in my local newsagents the magazine shelves are full of blank spaces were once magazines use to live.There must be a lot of them gone down in the last few weeks.
Yes far better to hold 25m+ shares in Impellam the NHS outsourcing company whose share price has doubled since the General Election. Cui bono I wonder?
http://investors.impellam.com/directors-biographies
that needs breaking up,Today.
Its for the poor children guv
http://investors.impellam.com/news-item?item=376387311524023
Filthy Tories,never change.
Such a huge leap on such a low volume. I smell the spoor of rattus norvegicus.
For an extra £15K I will be on display in the vestibule of any Labour council which coughs up the readies.
As a gesture of solidarity, we’ll join in that anal demo, revealing all.
Should get a few quid in.
Thanks for the warning. I will make sure my local council’s attention is drawn to this! What a nerve!
“The Future of Public Services” FFS!
Hilarious.
Is there one?
Their £15 grand would be better invested in a Pakistani Betting syndicate. The returns are exceptional I hear.
I have always wondered if they belive the shit that they write or like conning the public
That was a message from the conservative party
It isn’t going to be the only daily paper to prostitute itself – just watch the others follow.
If daily papers are going into prostitution can I have a go at Bryony Gordon?
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7972301/Civil-servant-sues-for-300000-after-falling-off-chair.html
Shouldn’t give the lazy ba$tard$ chairs then, should they ?
If the idiot can’t even sit on a chair, how was he in ‘a senior position at the DWP’?
Hope the cheeky bastard loses his shirt.
I hope the solicitors defending this claim have had PI’s filming this phony.
I think Guido should do a FOI request on how much public money has been spent advertising ‘public sector’ jobs in national newspapers (i.e. exclusively in The Grauniad) since the advent of internet alternatives…?
i.e. how much of our taxpayer dosh Nu Labour gave the Guardian from 1997 to 2010?
Given that the Guardian was so interested in Lord Ashcroft, don’t you think they should get a dose of their own medicine…?
ps – one thing’s for sure; if The Guardian was owned by the Murdoch press and it was a Tory government doing it, all that advertising money wouldn’t have escaped the notice of the left for one minute.
They’d have already cast a narrative into public parlance about ‘the Tories bankrolling Murdoch with our money’…
KP dropped from 20/20s and one day series , Quoted as saying “its Fucked up” oh and signs for Surrey
Yawn
Isn’t it time the great and the good of our so called free press took a closer look at the contracts signed by the Public Sector with an ever reducing number of big players.
These guys have been troughing it on hilarious terms for years. All sorts of empires have sprung up all over the place. Guaranteed income, dozey client – it don’t get better than that!
Who works for these people?
What do they actually do? and how much are they paid for doing it?
Oh there’s Apple sauce with British Pork!
Capita, Accenture….such innocent-sounding names, so much quiet involvement in society…such profits at the taxpayers’ expense…
We don’t give a fuck what you’s say.Your all yap and no teeth,fuck you all
I would guess each and every one a member of the left-trouser-leg rolled up, funny hand shake brigade. This is what normally causes corruption, nepotism and market stitch-ups.
You just can’t wean them off the teat.
http://tinyurl.com/3aktz8u
Why leave the teat, just when I’m latched on and getting comfy?
Er British teat,she’s not from here,shes a fucking Muzzee Huhne
The Guardian must be utterly dependent on public sector job ads. Time to put all those job ads on a single government web site, for which occasionally the government can advertise in all of the papers and on all their websites, on all radio and tv stations.
Gissa job!
Hi , My names Tim Lovejoy and i am a BBC legend who likes sucking on the public tit .
Ker Ching !
Ps More money for the BBC for talent like me .
Who (No, not the Doctor!) received £2.5 million for one hour of television which was a Weakest Link charity special?
WGAF
This is rolling news.wait for the US story to come round .
http://rt.com/On_Air.html
They are at least consistent. “more money please”