The (Friday) Evening Standard’s cost-cutting regime continues in earnest. Just as Tom Newton Dunn started his column…
Guido hears that their brutal restructuring programme involves cutting the news desk roughly in half. Worse than that, the email informing them of impending doom turned up in inboxes at 8:30 p.m. last Thursday. An hour and a half before the exit poll and as everyone was gearing up to pull a stint of all-night reporting…
That fired quite the missile into morale. Just the atmosphere you need in the office when preparing to run a skeleton crew…
Congratulations to Tom Newton Dunn on returning to the political media fray with a regular column at the burgeoning Evening Standard. Oh, wait…
Newton Dunn’s first piece (described by a member of staff as “some bollocks about Whitby Woman“) was scheduled to be a regular column in the struggling paper. The Standard has now announced it is pulling its five-day printing format and going weekly amid impending job cuts. The paper is having to rid itself of expensive talent – will there still be room for Tom’s wisdom?
Former leader of the SNP in Westminster Ian Blackford told Times Radio why he believes Nicola Sturgeon’s claim that she spent no time in the kitchen and therefore didn’t see any of her husband’s purchases:
“She doesn’t have a passion for cooking.”