Sudden exit is say sources not because he was sacked and it wasn’t over editorial direction, which has not been as Brownite as the proprietor, Geoffrey Robinson, would have liked. Paid for weekly circulation is now only some 25,000 print editions which is a third of the Speccie’s print run. 25,000 readers is about what Guido gets on a good day…

UPDATE : Guido has got a sneak preview of the new post-Kampfner, Geoffrey Robinson edited New Statesman: