Today the Speccie have hit a million unique users every month after their relaunch and redesign last year:

By comparison, Guido’s readership nowadays (excluding feed readers and app traffic) is about a third of that:

So come on then New Statesman, get your stats out for the wags.

Or are you still chicken? 

https://twitter.com/RobDotHutton/status/390781839994273793

Stella should stick to the day job…

Savile in his own words. Chilling…

Media charmer of the week is Ian Shuttleworth, the theatre critic on the Financial Times. He boasts that he attended the first night of a Shakespearean production at the National Theatre wearing a t-shirt which proclaimed ‘STILL HATE THATCHER’. FT editor Lionel Barber will no doubt he delighted to have such an objective analyst representing his esteemed publication at West End first nights.

Shuttleworth, whose newspaper is owned by those arch capitalists Pearson, makes the admission in the editorial of a magazine called Theatre Record, which he edits. The column consists chiefly of a rant against the Mail for being, well, the Mail. Interesting to note that Shuttleworth himself has in the past written for the Mail. Mehdi would be proud…

Laugh or cry?

Earlier Guido pointed out that Kevin Maguire was using the fact Tory MP Charlotte Leslie once worked as a researcher on the Weakest Link as proof that the BBC was not biased, well Ms. Leslie gets in touch:

“It was at the BBC that a fellow Conservative caught me by the lift, gave me a secret handshake having overheard a phone conversation I’d had with a Conservative friend and whispered ‘I’m a Conservative too, but don’t let them find out or you’ll be going nowhere’. Be worth a little survey of Conservatives in the BBC, and just how socially acceptable it is to be one!”

A few token Tories, however high-profile, can never balance out a culture…