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Alan Rusbridger, self-appointed arbiter of media ethics, is at it again. Banging on about GB News and Nigel Farage again…
Writing for Prospect he claims GB News’ coverage of Reform is effectively a £200 million subsidy. How much has the BBC’s sympathetic coverage of Labour over the decades been worth? The Guardian’s would be around £50 by Guido’s estimation…
Rusbridger would know about subsidies given the loss-making Prospect is owned by long-time Labour supporter Sir Clive Cowdery’s Resolution Group. Wealthy backers of media it seems are all fine as long as it is for the ‘right’ kind of politics…
Rusbridger’s record himself is spotty. The Telegraph reported that when he was head of Lady Margaret Hall at Oxford University he solicited donations from the late Max Mosley’s fortune…
He also left the Guardian in financial strife following his two decades long tenure resulting in significant job losses at the paper, with the paper racking up losses of nearly £20 million in his final year as editor. Spare a thought for Rusbridger, though ,whose podcast he co-presented with former FT editor Lionel Barber for Prospect recently got the axe as part of cost cutting. Oh well, never mind…
The Ministry of Justice spent a whopping £41,945,961.34 on interpreters and translation services in 2025. That works out at roughly £115,000 every single day…
Responding to a parliamentary question from Tory MP John Hayes, justice minister Jake Richards provided a breakdown:
More than 150,000 interpreter requests were fulfilled across the MoJ estate during the year. That comes to £280 per request…
The courts service alone ran up almost £6.5 million in off-contract spending, around 15% of the total, on top of existing contracts. To put the figure in perspective, Home England is getting just over £20 million of new cash to try to scale up council housebuilding. Maybe Zack Polanski could be drafted in to deal with all of the government’s translation needs…
More in Common has done some polling on the gender gap in parties’ fortunes. Labour is losing women…
This is in part due to female voters going to the Greens more readily than men, though More in Common’s Luke Tryl observed that Labour has pushed many into the ‘don’t know’ category. Or are they not as interested in pints and pork scratchings? It couldn’t be…
Labour’s vote is increasingly male and the Tories are also picking up women. Reform has lost some ground since last year too…
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Asked by Lobby hacks about his past comments on Trump (“any UK politician who gave Trump the time of day should be ashamed right now”) Burnham was blithe:
“Politicians say things throughout their career, but now the important thing is to focus on the moment you are in.”
Were it so easy…