Guardian Invested Millions in Hedge Funds During Banking Crisis
Editor Rusbridger on Board Which Approved Strategy
Earlier this month the Guardian front paged a story revealing that the City of London accounted for £11.4 million of the Conservative Party’s funding in 2009 – 10, in lurid terms we learned of the millions passed to Tory coffers by rich hedge fund managers. Guido can reveal that during that same period the Guardian Media Group’s coffers gained £39.3 million from investments in hedge funds. More than three times as much as they castigated the Tories for taking from hedgies…
GMG owns the Guardian and Observer newspapers, where journalists and columnists rail against the City, hedge funds and the short-termism of pin-striped financial traders. Documents obtained by Guido reveal that the GMG board approved investments now totalling £223.8 million in speculative funds in a range of assets. Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, sat on the board which approved the hedge fund investment plan, the board was at the time chaired by Paul Myners who also sat on the board of GLG partners, a hedge fund which is widely reported to have made big profits shorting UK banks.
The funds are traded by a number of specialist fund managers, overseen by the giant U.S. based asset manager Cambridge Associates. Cambridge Associates is a secretive, privately held firm with a client list which includes billionaires and government sovereign wealth funds. Guido has discovered that the £223.8 million is invested in emerging markets, bonds and hedge funds. The investments are principally in US Dollars and offshore from the UK.
In the small print of GMG’s 2009 Accounts
These short-term funds are in addition to the GMG assets held in Cayman Islands domiciled corporations where the rate of corporation tax is zero. Sources suggest that GMG has between £300 million and £500 million held offshore in these opaque special purpose vehicles. Such tax haven domiciled corporate vehicles are used to shield assets from tax. Guido has discovered that one GMG controlled Caymans corporation was incorporated as recently as March 2008, a mere 5 months before the banking crisis wreaked havoc on the global economy.
So far GMG has ignored embarrassing questions posed since the winding up of the old Scott Trust. What Guido and many confused Guardian readers would like to know is how the use of these opaque investment vehicles is compatible with the public positions taken by the newspapers and even members of the board. Will Hutton for example is a former editor of the Observer who sits alongside Alan Rusbridger on the board of the Scott Trust Foundation. Is Hutton, a noted campaigner against hedge funds, comfortable with GMG having hundreds of millions in assets both offshore and invested in hedge funds? Are the perennially loss making Guardian newspaper’s columnists like Polly Toynbee happy to have their six-figure salaries paid out of the profits of hedge fund raids on the currencies of emerging market countries? Isn’t it about time the Guardian’s senior executives explained openly and honestly to its readers how it really survives despite losing money every year?
You’ll wait in vain for a UKUncut demo outside the Gruaniad.
What more can we say?
Hypocrisy = it’s in their D-N-A
Do stop whining Mackerel Boy. You’re just embarrassing yourself.
87 = deluded nitwit.
The article isnt about hedge funds you moron, it’s about hypocrisy.
You should stick to the anonymous insults mackerel boy. When you try arguing you sound like even more of an incoherent whiner.
The Gruaniad is against tax avoidance. Parent group GMG practises it.
The Gruaniad is against hedge funds. Parent group GMG invests in them.
Time to start a Cairo-style uprising? I bet Polly and all the other lefties would order the Army to open fire.
Dick !!
Anyone call?
The Gruaniad spells The Gruaniad not Gweedo
But they’d say “please open fire”, which makes all the difference, of course…
Shoot eveyone in the name of equality & diversity
“….now totalling £223.8 million in speculative funds in a range of assets.”
Er – not quite right, if you read the little excerpt above.
Clue 1: ‘Managed Funds’ are the sort of quite conservative investments you might put your savings into, if you wanted high costs and rather shoddy returns.
Clue 2: ‘Short-term funds’ means ‘cash deposits’.
Managed funds speculate too.
The headline states that the Grauniad invested £223.8 million in hedge funds. This is untrue.
The text elides hedge funds with managed funds. This is misleading.
Yes, just ask anyone who was sold an Equitable Life Pension!
And there’s only 10% in cash deposits.
While we’re at it where exactly does the 39 million figure come from.
The number for how many “other assets” they have has indeed gone up by 39 million, but is it perfectly clear where that money came from? It could have even been shuffled from other categories couldn’t it. (ie if you sell a building, that money might end up in this category).
The £39m comes from subtracting 2009′s worth from 2010′s.
Oh, and ‘cash’ isn’t ‘available for sale’ so suspect this is a proper investment as well?
A Girl has to pay for the upkeep of her Villa in Tuscany somehow.
Why don’t you go on the street – £5 a throw?
I’ve only got a bag-full of coppers. Will that do?
I would aim lower…… two grains of rice and a marble!
I’m betting her own tax affairs are very tax-efficient too.
Maybe that’s why she won’t put her money were her mouth is and voluntarily do what he wants the state to force us to do: publish everyone’s tax returns.
Inheritance taxes in Italy are almost non-existent. The idea of tax avoidance doesn’t exist; all have accountants whose purpose is to actively seek minimal payments of unavoidable tax, and to seek out means of attracting allowances and grants from any publicly available funding, particularly the EU.
Can’t really tax the mafia, especially when capo de capo is in charge!
Funny thing is that you’ll suddenly see Guardianistas and Labour apologists becoming balance sheet experts as they try and explain why their tax-efficient structure is quite the right thing to do but will immediately revert to headline grabbing half-truths, bare-faced lies and misinformation when they’re looking to embarrass their political opponents.
But at least their crossword is still free!
You have to buy the paper first ?
Nope – online here http://www.guardian.co.uk/crosswords
HERES A WORD THAT MAKES ME CROS: FATCHUR.
SHES STILL STEELING FROM THE WORKORS.
We’ll soon fix that.
We should take to the streets for a “day of Reggae”. Keep singing those freedom songs.
Guido you rock!!! Great how you expose the great hypocrisy of the Lefties.
what a surprise to see the guardian doing so well out of the crisis….fucking hypocrites
Well done Pablo.
I am sure the BBC has a team of crack investigative journo’s on this right now Guido.
Not that the Conservative front bench will appreciate your efforts attacking this bastion of left wing hypocrisy.
I am sure they are all avid readers of Polly et al, judging by their demeanour & policies.
Continuity Labour out.
Blue Labour out.
Rusty liberal Dave Cameron – out, out, out.
This is not a story that will interest our stake holders.
I used to wonder about this phrase ‘stake holder’ until I saw a couple of blokes planting small trees. Then I understood.
Do the BBC plant a lot of trees, then?
I thought they worked in the kitchen at a Gastro Pub?
That’s steak holders!
Nah,People got fed up of being called punter,so the lefties figured out,stake holder would confuse them while they fleeced them.
It will be given the coverage it deserves across the full range of our outputs. ie buried.
The Guardian is not a political party campaigning to be in Government. The Conservatives were. It could be argued the hedge funds were investing in the Tories to buy policy, whereas the Guardian were investing in hedge funds to finance a business.
I hold no torch for the Guardian – it is inconsistent, hysterical, childish and sometimes facile – but you are comparing apples and bananas.
There is a pressure group by the name of Ukuncut who are campaigning against what they see as the evil of tax avoidance. They have taken action against the likes of Philip Green and Barclays. Should they also target GMG?
Guardian journalists can’t have it both ways. They use their columns to criticise the practice of tax avoidance by other corporations, whilst taking their salaries from a company that practices tax avoidance. Some see this as hypocricy.
They all need stuffing.
Well put, Engineer! People like Windsock seem unable to get it.
No, people like me are not comparing the Guardian to other businesses, we are comparing it to the Tory party, which is the comparison Guido makes in his first paragraph. Wilful stupidity on your part is self-defeating.
Engineer – I don’t disagree with you. See my previous paragraph and post.
Did the Guardian publish articles lamenting donations to the Labour party by hedge funds when Labour were those making policy?
That would indeed be hypocrisy Engineer, but that is still a different issue.
Not at all. It is exactly the same issue.
Bollocks. The Guardian is the publicity arm of the Labour Party, the Pravda of the trendy lefties. It is a hotbed of Labour Party arselickers and apologists (Toynbee, Ashley, White and Co) who use the Guardian’s pages to push their ideology.
Shame on on Cast Dave and his Blue Labour government for failing to cut the subsidy via public sector advertising that gives the paper much of its audience and financing. Failng to engage the enemy and all that…
Don’t you just love champagne socialists.
I spoke to a nice lady at UK UNCUT on Saturday. Her number is 07591992825. I asked her if she would be targeting the Guardian. She told me she had no idea they evaded tax in any way, but she would like me to send her the information and they would consider it.
Is Toynbee paid a salary or does GMG pay Toynbee Consultants Ltd ..?
Same with Hutton.
I say the Guardian and the bbc are political parties in that they are acting as proxy arms of the labour party – by their actions shall you know them.
‘comparing apples and bananas’ …. so which one is bent ?
The difference is that the Guardian isn’t state owned – the banks are! Furthermore, the Guardian isn’t trying to run the country – the Tories are. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending the Guardian – but let’s not pretend the Tories are squeaky clean do-gooders.
Err, no.
The Guardian would smugly ‘expose’ this kind of behaviour if anybody else did it.
the Guardian isn’t state owned – the banks are!
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Really? Only Northen Rock is owned by HMG.
A prime example of ignoratio elenchi!
Well done Tacitus.
Spoken like a true Guardian reader. Well said.
Except that Tacitus committed the ignoratio elenchi.
Wake up Mandy! It’s gone 11, you know.
the Guardian isn’t trying to run the country
Really? You think?
Great work Guido……….
…….. all that we need next is the deafening silence that will accompany this from UKuncut, The Guardian and BBC.
Failtroll is fail.
OK, I’ll bite.
Guido, listen up. You are a fat Oirish drunkard ex-bankrupt grinding axes in all of the wrong places.
Did that get deleted?
You mean : A well fed, sociable Irishman the kind who fights back from disaster and takes on the monkeys and the organ grinders.
4. 111
Of course, this is all legitimate as they are like the USSR nuclear bomb was to British Communists, these are the People’s Hedge Funds, so that’s all right, then!
111, no, it didn’t get deleted. But Guido and the rest of us are laughing at you. Your 15 minutes of fame is to play the role of a laughingstock. Keep it up, squire! You are very good at it!
More ammo for the next time Littlejohn and Toynbee are on QT together….
Sadly I don’t think there will be a next time.
I’m sure Polly makes her QT appearances conditional on Littlejohn NOT appearing.
A leading Liberal Democrat MP has been accused by an election rival of having sexual intercourse with a 14-year-old girl, a court heard yesterday.
The 66 year-old also claimed that the MP for Portsmouth South also shared a bed with children after flying to Romania on charity work. Southampton magistrates’ court heard.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/8338230/Spy-row-MP-victim-of-election-sex-smear.html
“Witnesses tell of seeing Hancock in bed with children in Romania. Mr Hancock went on to retain his seat with an increased majority. He was also re-elected as a Portsmouth city councillor. ”
The people of Portsmouth and Southsea are obviously very discerning folk. Presumably then something like a murder or two would have resulted in a complete Landslide for Handycock??
“Here we are, in one of the most depressed towns in Southern England, a place that is arguably too full of drugs, obesity, underachievement and Labour MPs.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/6521603.stm
I am pleased to see the words “depressed towns”, “underachievement” and “Liebour MPs” in the same sentence. Many a true word spoken in jest.
Or semen in that particular MP’s case!
Unfortunately, the words at the end of the article are “Mr Cummings told police he believed the statements to be ”100 per cent true”, but had no documentary evidence to prove it.”
He’ll get away with it, I’m sure. On the other hand, if the magistrate were to believe the witness statements despite a lack of physical proof, then surely it would become a police investigation instanter, and require the slimy Russki lover to stand down immediately?
Mr Cummings makes allegations of sexual wrong-doings. With a name like that…
sex with a 14 year old is disgusting – well, with a 14 year old girl is.
This must be the end for the Guardian’s Editor, right?
I believe he was. Wasn’t he also the numbskull who nodded through the obscene pension for Fred the Shred? Yet another brilliant decision by a Liebour minister.
Welcome back Billy.
Oh, and back to the topic… what twats and Hunts… other than that, words fail me!
Cockmunchers
It was Myners who approved the payments for the Shred’s retirement fund.
It was the right thing to do. Gordon told him.
Good work Guido, but surely no surprise?
You have to be very rich, not moderately so, to be able to afford to be a socialist.
exactly…
Meanwhile, in Libya, something important is happening.
Biggles is addressing the nation from his milk float
Nothing is happening – NOTHING!
I’ve bombed the rebels into submission ! Is it still raining ?
Spelling tests in Libya must be a nightmare to mark.,
I wish someone would tell me what IS happening. I made a right Tit of myself yesterday when I said Gaddafi was on a plane bound for Venezuela. Then old mad dog appears on the box showing that he is still in Libya. I want Chris back as my SpAd.
apparently they’ve stopped drilling in Libya, but it won’t put me off
It’s possible to cover more than one story at once?
If they made themselves a multinational, they could pay even less tax then they already claim to. So glad there are all those small businesses being crippled to prop up these poor multinationals asked to pay tax.
Actually the only difference in the new tax rules appears to be that foreign branches will be treated the same as foreign subsidaries. This may save UK multinationals the bother of forming a separate company in each country but otherwise doesn’t change much. Boring but true.
You seem to forget that the Guardian supported the Orange Tories during the election campaign. Good to see that Guido is now a supporter of the hedge funds are evil campaign, and will presumably be pushing for the UK govt to gold plate the original EU directive on hedge funds as well as stepping down on tax avoidance by private equity and hedge fund managers. Or is this just a tactic to divert attention away from the big fish?
You seem to have missed the point
By a mile.
But then, that’s the mark of the Looter, isn’t it.
E-
Must try harder
Oh FFS,it’s like watching 4year olds arguing over who broke a vase , you did it, no you did it ,no you did it because I saw you do it, stop being so fcking tribal, Labour, LibDems and the Conservatives are so close if they were 3 companies they would be selling the same goods to people, the only thing that differs is the PR.
They are selling the same goods to people. Let’s take to the streets and, as we’re British, er, become mildly irritated and grumble a bit.
After you.
Form a queue, and take a thermos.
Labour – Microsoft
Tories – Apple
Lib Dems – Rolodex
I wouldn’t say that the Tories would be f**cked without their leader!
True: on reflection, Labour – Apple, Tories – Microsoft
Tories – Microsoft
So there we have it confirmation that the Tories are evil!
Expect it to be like Cif on here anytime now.
Great stuff Guido
You have destroyed the credibility of the Guardian
THEY HAVE NO ANSWER
Or if they have
Come on Polly Twaddle…
Coming out from hiding in your millionaire’s paradise !
Or( we will be obliged to think that you are a fraud
So, they are all in it together
I suppose now is the time to ask why these rich, arrogant elites don’t just kill off the rest of us so they can more easily carry on their tyranny
How does one know the difference between an opaque investment vehicle and a ponzi scheme ?
I guess it depends if you get your profits out in time. Like the Guardian did.
That’s what I kept telling the shleps!
The Gruaniad has Poncy schemes, rather than Ponzi schemes.
I squeezed it so hard a piece of cheese came out
I squeezed mine so hard it looked like Polly Toynbee
i don’t think i have one
lend me chucky and you can borrow mine
Kin L! Are we that short of aircraft or Big shps? I’m sure Dave said the french would help out if needed.
Italy, Greece and the Netherlands are sending transport planes to Libya to get their citizens out. Austria and Portugal have already done so.
UK nationals have been told to take commercial flights from Tripoli.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12536096
Come on.
I’d rather travel in one of those special boats to italy than go on a nimrod. Perhaps better than ryanair though.
•There will be no British Airways flight from Tripoli to London on 22 February. Commercial flights are available from Tripoli airport. However, the majority of airport offices in Tripoli are closed until further notice. We advise British Nationals who wish to leave Libya but cannot purchase tickets online to travel to the airport carrying sufficient cash to buy tickets. Problems with internet connections in Libya mean that electronic payments may not be accepted.
http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/middle-east-north-africa/libya/
So, Billy boy, if people can’t buy their tickets on line and the ticket offices in the airport are shut and BA isn’t even flying to London. How the flying fook do you expect UK peeps to get a commercial flight back home?
It looks like a few of them may be stranded overnight till we fix something up. In the meantime Can I suggest they share hotel rooms to save some money.
Can’t they take the camel train?
BA isn’t the only airline…Having worked there, if you want to get out there are many ways – push comes to shove buy/hire a car and drive out. FFS it’s not rocket science
There is a report in the Arab press that the runways at Tripoli International were torn up overnight by pro-Gaddaffi people (or loyalists in the Army), in order to stop foreigners leaving, thus becoming unwilling hostages who had conveniently herded themselves to the airport. I don’t know if it is true. Al Jazeera is also carrying the report now.
That could complicate matters.
I think it fair to say that the FO are not on top of this. They should have advised British Citizens to get the fuck out days ago. Perhaps they still believed Jack, Tony and Gordon that Gaddafi was their bestest friend EVER
They even have their own tax avoidance section:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/taxavoidance
And?
Guido
The outrageous hypocrisy goes even further than you say
The pontificating journalists at the Guardian are beinng paid out of profits from the hedge funds
But those profits are coming from speculating in oil, commodities and the basics for which the “poor” and indeed every citizen in the UK are being charged…
So Polly & co’s salaries are being paid in the back of British workers…
on the back of British workers
No silly. Because it’s the Guardian this immediately becomes the ‘means of production being owned by the workers’.
If you I or do it then it’s capitalism and bad. If they do it then it’s socialism and for the common good.
Come up and join me and my very good friend Al Saif here atop the very heights of the moral high ground.
Guido
It is never ending FFS
All these fucking “do gooders” like the Amnesty ladies who do good to themselves big time with hundreds of thousands of £ in salary (plus expenses) before anyone else
Who the hell do they think they are ?
The unacceptable face of capitalism ?!
WTF ????!!!
Apparently, Tim Geitner, the U.S Treasury Secretary says he is ‘very impressed’ with George Osborne.
I listened to the Today programme and Davies asked the question in terms of Osbourne was cutting too fast what do you think and Geithner gave him the wrong answer. The BBC will obviously not be interviewing him again and if Cameron was also listening why the hell doesn’t he do something about this bloody miserable excuse for an impartial news service?
So the Conservative Party and the Guardian are as bad as each other. A plague on both their houses.
Viva la revolucion!!
He’s an American. We can ignore everything he says because they started the Iraq war and Bush was their president and they’re right wing like the T*ries and…
Nah! Let’s blame that MacMillan chappie!
Actually that Gladstone bloke was a bit of a one.
There is simply nowhere for the left to turn now other than complete and utter denial.
The hypocrisy on display is nothing short of reality-bendingly mind-boggling.
You are perhaps over-estimating the importance of the Guardian?
I don’t think we can underestimate its symbolic importance, especially as cheerleader of the #ukuncut campaign.
As if people aren’t annoyed enough at students occupying banks, as soon as they find out about the Guardian’s complete hypocrisy they’re likely to turn off of the issue completely.
Yes I think you can.
The key thing in all this is that the new media are able to ask searching questions of ‘old media’, who have had a privileged position for decades in dishing it out but are now themselves subject to unrelenting tough scrutiny.
As usual, it boils down to the Sanction of the Victim. You’re oppressed until the moment you decide you won’t accept it any more. Libya, Guardian, fake charities. All wobbling precariously…
Am I still in charge or is it one of the Ed’s? I bet it it’s the good looking one!
The Guardianithtas are my friendth. I will defend them with, with – er – all thortth of thingth, you thee if I don’t!
(Waits for applause. Not a sausage).
Here’s a blank sheet of paper, Ed. It’ll get you started.
(Yes, I know it’s a sheet of Andrex. You might find it more use than the Basildon Bond.)
applauth, thauthage, thurely ?
Filthy capitalists, everywhere, filthy filthy scum. When I’m in power, as NUS President, I’ll lobby to make sure that The Guardian is under COMPLETE state control (assuming that the Socialist Workers Party gets into power – which they will because I will rule all other parties illegal.
VOTE MARK FOR NUS PRESIDENT.
Just when I thought you’d got that ‘Caps Lock’ key fixed.
I WILL FIX MY CAPS LOCK WHEN THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS FIXED (IE. DECAPITALISATION)
Don’t forget to demand free beer for the workers. If you can find any workers in the NUS, that is….
“I WILL FIX MY CAPS LOCK WHEN THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM IS FUCKED (IE DECAPITALISATION)”.
There, fixed it for you.
Of course, the other route to the economic system being completely fucked would have been to have voted in a Labour Government last May, to finish the job Gordon started in 1997.
That’s actually quite witty and clever, for a retard.
I will be a democratically elected leader. Delegates from University Student Unions get to vote. They’re usually left wing activists (the most democratic of all the people).
While the electronic resources exist to allow ALL students to vote we MUST NOT let this happen. The delegates are more democratic.
A postal vote I presume.
No comrade. Student unions elect random delegates with no commitment to any slate\candidate and then they and go and vote for these. DEMOCRACY!!!
He’s winding you up.
Yesterday was a good windup up, today it’s just noise amongst all the other noises.
Rather than sending any money to the EU this year, the UK should be sending the money to Christchurch, New Zealand, the most pro-British place outside the UK.
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/benedictbrogan/100077144/we-should-help-ease-new-zealands-tyranny-of-distance/
If were only here to be sucked dry of any monies we have for the EU, what gives you the hope that our NZ cousins will get any help from these money grabbing ,lieing politicians who seem to want to throw every penny we have at the EU gravy train.
The torys are the party of the few, we are the party of the many!
The party whose name is Legion.
Support the Myners!
Ain’t this the same Paul Myners who did a sweetheart deal with the banks in 2008, ensuring that they would get all our money and that our grandchildren would be sold into slavery to pay for their blunders, but that we would get bugger-all in return?
Seems to be. I know Lord Myners is still in the Lords, but did he go back to GMG after last May (he had to resign to take up the post of City Minister in 2008)?
Wikipedia’s got a good little snippet from the Sunday Times that I hadn’t seen before:
“In March 2009 the Sunday Times revealed that Lord Myners had been chairman of Aspen Insurance Holdings, a Bermuda-based insurance company, for five years, avoiding more than £100 million a year in tax. The Times went on to report that Myners was also chairman of Liberty Ermitage, an offshore fund based in Jersey. Besides this, Gartmore, the fund management company that Lord Myners chaired for 15 years, also ran a Jersey-based offshore business.”
Yeth indeed it ith him.
Heth wich and famouth and thupports the workerth.
Awesome. Simply awesome.
LOL… The Middle East is alight. The Cock is desperately trying to raise his international profile, while stocks plummet and oil prices rocket.
Within 12 months the whole Middle east will be run by fundamentalist nutters, – yet The cock has already ruled out any form of intervention….sit back at your peril. £1.60 a litre by the end of April….And Guido’s input. Jacqui Smith TV programme, and GMG, a Guido campaign story that no one gives a fig about.
You can’t have your money back, as Guido’s headline banner covers all known twists and turns.
Polly put the kettle on
The Middle East is alight?
And we’re doing exactly the right thing. Leaving them to it. Have you learned nothing from Iraq?
So petrol goes up in price. So use less. Turn down your heating. Wear a hat. Fuck ‘em. Let them drink their oil and eat their fucking sand.
The Middle East is alight?
And we’re doing exactly the right thing. Leaving them to it. Have you learned nothing from Iraq?
So petrol goes up in pr*ce. So use less. Turn down your heating. Wear a hat.
Fuck ‘em. Let them drink their oil and eat their fucking sand.
Petrol up, more inflation, less economic growth, adding to conservative woes. Thank you Libya.
The Guardian is not the only means (if it is a means at all) by which to overthrow the current regime.
If they can play their cards, you can blame current price increase on Ghaddafi.
When the prices drop out of the inflation figures in a year or so, then they can take the credit.
Petrol rationing must surely follow in the near future…
Anyone with any connection to The Guardian or The Observer is a master of hypocrisy.
Today, those rabid, foaming-at-the-mouth republicans Jonathan Freedland and Polly Toynbee, have been paid by the licence-fee payers to front a programme on Radio 4 about Royal weddings.
I look forward to Radio 4′s programme on the Holocaust produced and presented by by neo-fascists.
Cambridge Associates a “secretive asset manager”? On the contrary, I have always found them to be rather nice. They do an asset-allocation job that is not dissimilar to that done by everybody else.
Also, they are a firm of consultants, not asset managers. As far as I know they don’t actually manage a penny.
Interesting to see that a long-standing client and investor in Cambridge is no other than Nat Rothschild.
Who’d've thunk it ?
And…?
Hypocrisy is the stock-in-trade for Guardianista’s.
Why should they apologise, after all Lenin had his Rolls Royce, Stalin also.
BUT Guido, will the media size on this information and seek to make the Guardianista’s look like the two faced bastards that they are, of course not, as they’re all at it.
You can but make the information public and hope a sufficient number of monkeys see the data and continually harp, and shame the Guardian, which will be difficult as they are a shamless bunch of swine.
Of course the media won’t make a fuss over it. They never turn on their own.
Whatever their differing political affiliations, they are a brotherhood of self-serving hack first and foremost.
Guido Guido Guido,credit where credit is due, they have to make money somewhere and its certainly not by sellings newspapers.
Nobody minds the way they make their money, or arrange their tax affairs. It’s legal. There is a question over their willingness to ctiticise others for making similar financial arrangements.
Why don’t they just go and work in the city instead of pushing left wing propaganda while funding there existance through right wing capatilism.
Call them and ask: 07591992825
An interesting take on a “live” story, yet the contributors to the comments section reduce it to a vile litany of mispelt abuse.
Guido – the sooner you either censor anything abusive or drop the comments section altogether, the better for all concerned.
Your blog is all the worse for the unpleasant drivel you allow.
Letting all the aforementioned bile pass for comment, on the grounds of free speech, is simply persuading me to stop visiting your site. Free speech is a building block of any democratic society, but so is civility to each other.
We don’t have time to pre-moderate half-a-million comments a year. We have bulk clear ups now and then..
I’m sure there’s more you could do. It seems from a cursory analysis that vocab recognition programmes could be used, as well as blocking contributors who are consistently offensive – looking through the comments on this section show several potential miscreants.
At least make more of an effort – I hesitate to recommend your site to my son who is taking A level Politics this summer, not because he would be offended, but more because I want to encourage his interest in the political process. Telling him to look at your site would potentially switch him off the subject if he sees that the level of UK political discourse is so crude, ill informed and malicious.
At least until he’s old enough to develop his own cynical view – something that should only be encouraged at a much older age. Let the younger generation a have some idealistic fun.
Yours in hope, rather than expectation.
The problem is that much UK political discourse is crude, ill-informed and malicous – much of the politically-related comment on Twitter, for example. There is a moderation system on this site, and most of us regulars have fallen foul of it from time to time for reasons most of us can’t fathom, but I suspect it eliminates the worst of the abuse.
If your son is 18, he’ll have heard far worse. If he intends to study politics, the sooner he learns the gradations of what passes for political debate in the UK, the sooner he’ll be able to form his own mature judgements.
Sadly I agree with you. Still there’s some satisfaction from charging at windmills, however fruitless it might be. A certain cathartic satisfaction, to get it off one’s chest…
Yours wistfully…
End public sector job advertising in the Guardian. Stop propping up these vile, hypocritical, upper class communists.
Yes, truly that should have come to an end years ago. It’s a fucking monopoly.
Without the media and public sector ad revenue they’d be down the shitter. Good!
Hague charged £300 to get out of Eygpt. Any ideas what the going rate is for UK Expats ecscping Libya.
PS how’s business going for Daves delegation of arms dealers to the Middle east
Fook off, skinny.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-300222/Prescott-defends-Blairs-Libya-trip.html
Steady on, Guido. A chap’s got to find the school fees somehow or other.
UKuncut demo anytime now then? And I’m sure Polly will be appalled and tendering her resignation also? I mean she wouldn’t want to be viewed as a hypocrite surely, how can she accept money from them now?
So Rusbridger, Hutton and Toynbee are hypocritical dick-heads – what will you tell us next, what bears do in the woods?
Surely you’re wrong about Myners. He was a Government Minister in 2009 and would therefore have given up all his directorships.
I see Fawkes has cast his not so beady eye away from this…
http://www.guardian.co.uk/help/insideguardian/2011/feb/22/blogpost
But oddly enough Mr Rushbridger and his cohorts do not want comments on that article. Why, I wonder?
it’s sometimes written by people with a particular axe to grind that this trust – The Scott Trust – was some kind of tax dodge. Well, in a way it was.
It either was a tax dodge, or it wasn’t. It’s rather like saying: “We decided to steal £1,000,000 from a bank. It’s sometimes written by people with a particular axe to grind that this was some kind of robbery. Well, in a way, it was.”
Mr Rushbridger seems unable to grasp one very simple fact. Very few people give a damn that the Scott family and the then Manchester Guardian decided to use a tax dodge to look after their own. In fact some people would find this a praiseworthy act.
What does cause anger and ire in the hearts of many is that the figurative children of the Scott family, who ow their very employment to the creation of that tax dodge all those years ago should rail and rant against other families who use exactly the same kind of tax dodge to look after their own.
Mr Rushbridger, it is the rank hypocrisy of yourself, Polly, etc., etc., that sticks in the craw.
Who on earth reads the Guardian??
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