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…