New Statesman Internship Auctioned for £1,000
Intern Aware Say Staggers Should be “Ashamed”
At the recent Olympics Ball raising money for Britain’s young athletes, the New Statesman, that paragon of equality of opportunity, auctioned off internships £1,000-a-pop. A great scoop from Dave Lee this lunchtime. “You will have the chance to contribute your ideas and writing to their hugely popular website” gushed Lot 75 with a starting bid of £1,000. Guido is currently trying to find out exactly how much the slave ship ticket actually went for.
Seeing as the Staggers would be getting the free labour from whichever champagne-swilling parent that coughed up for their lucky child’s week of work experience, would they be contributing anything to the deal? “No travel included”.
Last year Helen Lewis gleefully reported on Tom Watson’s attack on the Tories when they tried a similar wheeze:
“The Labour MP Tom Watson told the Mail: “This is a crass example of rich Tories buying privilege. Most young people could only dream of this opportunity. The Conservatives flog them like baubles and fill their coffers with the profits. It is obscene.”"
Though perhaps it is Laurie Penny, naturally writing in the Staggers, who put it best:
“The Telegraph reports that across the country hundreds of placements are being sold or brokered, often at similar auctions for the wealthy, where the fact that proceeds go to charity gives the new nobility yet another reason to be smug about giving themselves the life chances that previous generations enjoyed for free. For the few of us who are wealthy enough to finance ourselves through work placements, only a firm push is needed to force open the doors of opportunity. Without a co-ordinated effort to reverse this regressive trend, the years to come will be littered with wasted potential and filled with disappointment for young people with nothing to bring to the table but talent, creativity and ambition.”
Intern Aware have slammed the Staggers this afternoon:
“Most people can’t afford to work for free and even fewer people can afford to pay thousands of pounds for the privilege of interning. The New Statesman should be ashamed of operating a practice than puts opportunities out of the hands of hardworking and talented young people.”
They also estimate that “around 1/3 of the editorial staff at any one time are unpaid. Not only do they readily do all the necessary drudgework, they help to depress the wages of paid journalists there.” Shame on them.
Read Dave Lee’s original posting here.
UPDATE: A source tells Guido that the internship went for close to £1,250.
Strike!
Oh well, bang goes MY once a year double bubble.
Thanks Bob, you truly ARE a man of the people, hope you choke on a Turkey bone.
and pay mill owner for permission to come to work.
Tell that to t’youth of today, and they’ll never believe you.
Automate the Tube Trains, NOW! No train drivers, no money? Eat Crow.
Luxury………….
Hard to find young posh rich lefties these days that know how to make a cup of tea. What is with kids these days, ey, Mehhhdeee?
“they help to depress the wages of paid journalists there.”
Yet they still refuse to stop supporting immigration subsidies (NDS, skoolz, benefits) that have the same effect on the lower paid. Probably because they’re the islington class that benefit most from those lower wage costs.
Keith Vaz ‘If I don’t win it’s proof of institutional racism in the UK’.
FFS. Interns are Americans on work experience.
Nothing good has ever really come out of America.
Apparently, when Noah’s Ark finally ‘docked’, he shovelled all the shite out of said Ark, and that place is now called America.
I know…….. I know………. groan!
Didn’t rate what Churchill did for us then?
What did Churchill ever do for us?
He gave Diane Abbott a British passport?
I warned you : Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
I thought it was gaza
I assumed Noah stopped at Australia first and let all the poisonous deadly creatures out in one batch.
Nah, that’s Afghanistan, surely.
Those aren’t poisonous. Explosive, maybe.
At the Guardian we charge people just to come and visit and bask in our ethical leftie glow.
At the Grauniad you have to make money somehow. You don’t make it from publishing.
Oh they do – but it leaves this country in the form of rent and charges, paid into the off shore account, leaving them as loss making, ON PAPER. (pun, sort of, intended)
The & Staggers. Lefties ?? Liars & hypocrites, all of them.
leftist hypocrite = tautology
Bastards!
A Taxing Question
This example shows the importance of accuracy in your tax return. The HMRC has returned the Tax Return to a man in Evesham after he apparently answered one of the questions incorrectly.
In response to the question :
Do you have anyone dependant on you?,
The man wrote :
“2 million illegal immigrants, 1 million crackheads, 3 million unemployable Jeremy Kyle scroungers, i million criminals in over 85 prisons plus 650 idiots in Parliament and the whole of the European Commission”.
The HMRC stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man’s response back to HMRC was “who did I miss out?”.
He overlooked the whole of the tax eating public sector, who have all four trotters and their very fat snout firmly planted in his wallet…
Man who quotes Penny Red to make his case has already lost his case.
Why no thread on Bob Blackman’s 11 year affair? Bob Blackman who’s preached the sanctity of marriage. Couldn’t have anything to do with Bob’s campaign to bring back Section 28, which Guido agrees with?
Bob’s little brain was secretly polygamous, though.
Anyway, Harrow East is a knobbers constituency by tradition, or perhaps it’s by an ancient law or charter.
The point being made that he was not knobbing a gayer
Oh ffs! Who fuckin.g died and gave you lot the job of deciding who puts what up where?
Use some perspective, it’s only sex, it’s not usually life or death.
”it’s not usually life or death.”
Until you get Aids of course.
Thus the proviso “usually” and in the Western world, it is now classed as merely serious but manageable!
A Taxing Question
This example shows the importance of accuracy in your tax return. The HMRC has returned the Tax Return to a man after he apparently answered one of the questions incorrectly.
In response to the question :
Do you have anyone dependant on you?,
The man wrote :
“2 million illegal immigrants, 1 million crackheads, 3 million unemployable Jeremy Kyle scroungers, i million criminals in over 85 prisons plus 650 idiots in Parliament and the whole of the European Commission”.
The HMRC stated that the response he gave was unacceptable.
The man’s response back to HMRC was “who did I miss out?”.
Us.
Yes, yes, yes…we heard that one on here a few weeks ago.
You left out the Royal Family btw.
All countries have a Head of State, we are just Lucky to have the best of the lot,
just ask the rest of the world….
+ a million Neo. These bloody lefties/republicans get right up my left nostril. Have they ever stopped to think how much President Bliar would have cost this country? As it is, he’s cost us plenty, including our ma.im.e.d and de*d service personnel – all for his own vanity.
Why BLiar & his cronies aren’t in prison I’ll never know.
One reason is because Cameron and his cronies will not do anything about it – rather they will force through secret courts which will ensure that they can get away with whatever they like in future. Madness is we stand for it.
President Blair how about President The Maximum Imbecile now that is bloody scary
The existence of the Monarchy saves us from constitutional horrors such as a possible President Clegg, or worse, President Brown.
The 2 million illegal immigrants hardly refers to our area.
About 10 Million pensioners too.
Loads of taxpayer-wallet Farmers (not just in the U.K. thanks to the EUSSR).
Lots of Luvvy artistes and unpopular sportsmen thanks to DMCS.
oh and rich dictators in poor countries too.
Harsh, but very fair.
Language!
Straight to the point, applause.
It’s never wrong when we do it.
Only evil tories.
I should be interned.
Weren’t you the chancellor once?
No. That was Sue.
I was the future once.
Onward my brave Hawkmen! Let this be known forever as Gordon’s Day!
Keep moving, nothing to see here.
Anyone fancy a Super Mocha Frappuccino before we start work for the day then?
(Msg sent via i-Phone5)
” …I saw a little boy, perhaps ten years old, driving a huge carthorse along a narrow path, whipping it whenever it tried to turn. It struck me that if only such animals became aware of their strength we should have no power over them, and that men exploit animals in much the same way as the rich exploit the proletariat….”
Little boy,whipping,animal exploitation tell me more?
The world would be a better place if we exploited each other because we were stronger?
I think there’s a documentary called Mad Max about just such a place.
Man exploiting man? That’s capitalism.
I think you’ll find exploitation of man by man, is found more where reciprocation is less.
Capitalism is reciprocal. Marxism is not. That is why it’s a economic death sentence always leading to mass murder.
Whereas communism is, as we all know, the reverse.
Now that is weird
Over at NewsThump they must be wondering exactly what they have to do to compete.
Shhhhhhhh… Bonkers Boy abandons Bonkers Boris Island Airport Idea.
Boris now favours Standsted extension, or as it will now be called “”Pfeffel’s Place”"
errrrr is that a U Turn !!!!!
No MKM3, it’s not a u-turn, it’s just one of your asinine remarks.
Mousey, me old Khunty – your digit keeps changing – does this refer to the dosage increase in your medication or your actual IQ?
LOL!!!!!!!
Got it in one Fran. Poor old MKM3 is seriously de.men.ted. He’s more to be pitied than scolded.
It IS a terrible thing when first cousins are allowed to marry and have kids, especially when their parents and grandparents were also first cousins. Mousey, you have my limited sympathy – get a grown up (or carer) to look up that last word for you
Er, why not add another terminal and runway to Gatwick as there’s space etc.
Why are you having a pop at Jo Nesbø’s policeman character?
Now matter which blog you go to and can post you will find that all the blogs have one or two resident retards, mousey is this blogs resident retard
I’M WITH HANK ON THIS ONE!
I knew an intern. Once.
Just the once!
I’ll splash it on the front!!
After he finished Universty (about 12 years ago) my son was an Intern at the NS for about 6 weeks. No fee was charged, and no salary was paid, but my son was informed that he would be paid (think it was £100 per page) if anything he wrote was published in the mag. They did publish a two page article but I was very annoyed that after having had his free labour for 6 weeks, it then took NS two months to pay his for the published article.
There’s socialists for yer!
What sort of parent would expose his children to a Socialist newspaper?
Thank you Mrs Jones!
Three Scottish men are being held in custody in Amsterdam after taking part in an alleged “mini-riot” on a KLM flight from Glasgow. The men are due in court on Tuesday after the on-board incident, which also saw 14 other people arrested.
They were all part of a 17-strong group, including four women, who were on their way to see a concert by dance band Swedish House Mafia. The group, from Clydebank, who reportedly call themselves the Bundy Boys, were arrested at Schipol Airport on Thursday night after the flight from Glasgow landed.
While three of the men have been kept in custody charged with offences including threatening crew and groping female flight attendants, the other 14 were released on Friday after being fine £600.
I bet they are claiming benefits.
Were the Scotchmen wearing skirts at the time?
Looks like our monarch is going to observe cabinet meeting tomorrow. That should be fun for her.
I shall personally confiscate her old age pension and bus pass.
That should win me a few votes.
I am going to cut that blounder Clegg’s head clean orf while I am there too. And put it on Traitors’ Gate. Poisonous liitle upstart!
If she brought a few armed army officers along with her, then some progress might be possible.
I do hope they serve Freetrade bikkies there!
things must be serious.
.
first BoE visit,
now the cabinet….
what next……
is it a good day to
bury bad noose,
Given the regularity of theories about the BBC being anti-Tory, how do you square that with Bradley Wiggins and Sebastian Coe getting awards last night? Oh, I see how you’ve squared that. A “hilarious” satire along the lines of “sorry for last night’s error”. Such wit. Except that, instead of simply conceding that they didn’t rig the public vote, as usually alleged, some of you still have this bizarre need to find some hidden meaning behind it, rather than the blunt fact he won most votes and they chose to give a special honorary award to Coe.
Screaming your usual bile about “leftie BBC” when the reality doesn’t even match it is a sign of insanity.
We don’t like winners.
It was the BBC’s “diversity, let’s ram it down their throats” episode of Countryfile last night, on just before SPOTY wot swung it. That episode must have have enraged most of White England (not to mention Merseyside and North Wales) to get on the blower and vote for Wiggo.
I know. It was dreadful. Couldn’t quite believe it – it was like a parody.
My piss was already on the boil after listening to R4 Pick of The Week presented by leftist BBC ‘DJ’ Stuart Maconie. He treated us to a fawning tribute to that sad c unt Morrissey who apparently “emerged under the dark looming skies of Thatcher’s Britain” or some such fucking bilge.
Oh yes. The BBC is BIASED to the core. My bitch of an ex-wife works for them and I’ve seen it from the inside.
Stuart Maconie if he got Alzheimer’s would his career be over? Or was that written about some other presenter whose whole career is based on remembering things he did as a child?
Voted for by the public, you complete knob head – you know, democracy, something you socialists hate. Either look it up when you next bother to go to a Uni lecture or ask the poor sap with the same degree in History of Art as you who signs you on next week.
What ARE you babbling on about no: 39? The BBC are leftie twonkers and you are just plain bonkers.
What make of television are you watching? Probably one made in China/Russia.
So you’re saying Wiggins and Coe DIDN’T win last night?
Mashed potato, mashed potato, mashed potato. Yeah.
Coe only got it for heading up the complete waste of around 20 billion quid that could have been spent on better things, especially given the no money left position of this country, and all the lefty bollox that was the opening and closing ceremonies.
PS: His wrestling matches also probably were not unnoticed at White City.
Even the leftist twonks could not keep the award away from the rightful winner.
Mashed potato.
MKM3 – same comment as ‘and badger’.
They’re chosen by popular vote.
From a vetted and approved list.
Did Dave ever graduate from internship
Or did he give Tory H Q so much lip
They made him “The Leader” only to be funny
Bit their lips and carried on taking his money?
His 5th cousin apparently put in a word. She’s looking forward to her visit later this week.
I’ve got a little ditty which I’m having trouble with. It starts :-
I’m dreaming of a white Christmas
Just like the ones we used to know
Stuck!
Can you help?
Now then! Now then!
Where treetops glisten, and children listen, for the **** peeeedo stood outside their door.
The Politics of Envy.
So Borisido Boriswkes….will you be best man at Dale’s future Gay church wedding……LOL
Can someone introduce you to the English language?
….I could ask the UK tax payer to provide a tutor. They do pay for my home in Qatar afterall.
Thought you were no more. Some news item that you had succumbed overseas . Sorry I was wrong.
I think you’ll find that’s “Sucked cum overseas” in Mouseys case?…..LOL!!!!!!!
Guido
What’s happening with the Chris Huhne story – now you see it now you don’t?
http://www.theweek.co.uk/politics/50643/cps-denies-dropping-huhne-perversion-justice-charges#
Weird!
That Judge has got a Brass Neck
I think this sort of impertinent delving into Mr Huhne’s private affairs is totally uncalled for. Jahbulon
The Daily mail has taken down its Article about Chris Huhne saying the CPS will be dropping charges.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248747/New-Chris-Huhne-storm-Lib-Dem-judge-tweets-Prosecution-dropped-month.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
We cannot possibly prosecute high profile politicians
Otherwise there would not be many left
And I would be out of a job
Yes Keir
What about all those criminals bankers?
Their banks get fined billions and you never prosecute the people
who pulled all these scams do you?
Where is the Rule of Law in the UK?
It’s the starter of the FSA that needs jailing… He could probably use the Moran defence though.
That’s the problem…they didn’t break any laws in the process of bankrupting the entire economy.
It’s the essence of la i ssez-faire regulatation aka libertari a nsim/anarchism (anarchism means without rules…for big bussiness).
Free-markets and democracy are pure shams
That’s the problem…they didn’t break any laws in the process of bankrupting the entire economy.
It’s the essence of laissez-faire regulatation aka libertariansim/anarchism (anarchism means without rules…for big bussiness).
Free-markets and democracy are pure shams.
In my day it used to be the intern with the biggest tits that automatically got the job!
I have an age limit on my interns
Every day that passes comes the news of the lefty scum pulling one stunt or another.
Didn’t Penny herself advertise for an unpaid intern? Does my memory deceive me?
No, I think it was her social worker that was sitting in the corner.
I made bloody millions in the tech industry
And sold out at the right moment
I then bought the New Statesman from tax voiding Labour MP Geoffrey Robinson, infamous for Mandelson scam
I am anti trade union
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2009/01/13/more-new-statesman-journalist-face-axe/
So it is normal that I should not pay interns…
I also finance the crap on LabourHome blog
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jul/24/digitalmedia.pressandpublishing
Like Mandelson, I believe in being a filthy rich new Labourite
There are many Labour MPS with interns,they dont pay but give them a sandwich and travelling expenses paid of course by the taxpayer just ck out the IPSA webisite.I once rang IPS to ask about the particular expense being paid to a Labour MP the guy who took my query said that shed probably claimed for it as they calaim for everything else his exact words.The time has come to reduce the HOC to half the numbers it has now as for the HOL Icannot see it fufills any other function other than providing failed politicians arse lickers and bishops with a gilt edged pension plan.
About as much chance of that as a branch of Ermenegildo Zegna opening on Fawcett Street.
BoJo in pink mankini.
Once pictured never possible to wipe it from the memory banks.
Police re-bail Freddie Starr and Max Clifford.
Plod have all the dirt on Max’s computer
ROFL
Could not have happened to a nicer guy…
Cobwebbs in many corners.
Yawn
Will Guido be giving up his UK Passport in protest about UK Tax laws..
whoopssss… sorry forgot, Guido doesn’t have a UK passport….LOL
Do you have a life on this planet?
WTF is wrong with being a Bogtrotter?
I loathe our host, however, he is far more English than most Londonistan residents
My ancestors came from Ireland and we have all served our country
You Sir are a tedious Bumhole
LOL
He protests about Tax avoiders, yet is one himself.
He uses gay innuendo to attack his political foes, yet many of his own chums are gay.
He harps on migrants, yet is one himself.
He complains about hypocrisy…. LOL
Phuck of and die mousey
‘…a practice than puts opportunities out of the hands of hardworking and talented young people.’
Presumably Intern Aware believe that their or their parents’ ability to pay necessarily implies lack of both application and capability. I’d have thought the likelihood was the other way.
To be both a multi millionaire and a socialist is shurely a sign of lunacy
I dont mind helping people out, I just seriously object to being mugged at gun point
Thats what taxation is
‘The New Statesman was created in 1913 with the aim of permeating the educated and influential classes with socialist ideas’ – must be a transposition error?
Guess the racial profile
NS is in the London media bubble, no more no less, and are just a bunch of tools like the rest of them. Why don’t they move to Manchester, and pay their taxes.
Socialists in ‘do-as-I-say-not-what-I-do’ shocker!
surely these pinko chappies are just following my suggestion to auction off the poor – in order to raise money to cope with the needs of their betters
Oh, come on Guido.
You can’t post a link to the Daily Mail about Huhne’s prosecution being dropped that doesn’t lead anywhere – then mysteriously vanishes from your page.
Then no further reference whatsoever.
What’s going on? Surely you haven’t been gagged by Leveson …
Great innit! Wannajob? Well a little beige envelope passed under the table, and it could be yours.
Last year Helen Lewis gleefully reported on Tom Watson’s attack on the Tories when they tried a similar wheeze:
“The Labour MP Tom Watson told the Mail: “This is a crass example of rich Tories buying privilege. Most young people could only dream of this opportunity. The Conservatives flog them like baubles and fill their coffers with the profits. It is obscene.””
But that was so last year Gwido.