Guardian editor Katharine Viner has been busy since Trump stormed into the White House. She penned a swift begging article yesterday asking the Guardian’s hundreds of readers to sustain its “well-funded independent journalism”…
In an email to all staff, Viner stresses that “a Trump win could reverberate for a million years.” She says she knows “the result has been very upsetting for many colleagues” and urges UK staff to “contact your American colleagues to offer your support” because “they will be most directly affected by the result.” The Guardian has always been one massive shoulder for panicked progressives to cry on…
Viner goes further and generously offers: “If you want to talk about it, your manager and members of the leadership team are all available, as the People team. There is also free access to free support services, which I’ve outlined at the end of this email.” UK staff can use a 24/7 online GP, mental health support and “virtual wellbeing tools.” Americans have not one but two Employee Assistance Programmes to help. Apparently staff in Australia can get access to “confidential, impartial professional counselling and support to all employees.” For those currently sobbing into their Vegemite sandwhiches…
Something tells Guido all the counselling in the world won’t cure them of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Read Viner’s full email to staff below:
Continue reading “Guardian Offers Free Counselling to Staff After Trump Win”
They just can’t help themselves. Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Pat McFadden has been rolled out for the first morning round since Trump’s win to reassure broadcasters that Labour will get along great with Trump now he’s back in power. Despite the constant barrage of abuse the Labour leadership has sent his way in the last ten years…
After McFadden waxed lyrical about the strength of the special relationship Nick Ferrari asked him: “Do you think Donald Trump has KKK sympathies or Nazi sympathies?” McFadden just said: “I don’t want to get into all characteristics of people. Look, what I think is important is this friendship between the two countries.” He dodged the question three times…
Ferrari kept trying but to no avail. Sounds like Pat agrees with the Foreign Secretary then…
Kamala Harris finally called Trump at 6:45 p.m. to concede the election. An aide says they “discussed the importance of a peaceful transfer of power and being a president for all Americans.” The result was known by 6.50 a.m. – You get the feeling if Trump had lost and taken this long there would have been fury…
Tune in to watch Vice President Kamala Harris deliver remarks to America https://t.co/Xv1GJHk37K
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) November 6, 2024
Her team claims that she’s spent the whole day writing her speech because they “had spent very little time before today working on either a concession or victory speech. Instead they had spent time working on a speech that would tell the public to ‘hold on’ and be patient, due to the expectation that the result of the election could take longer to be known, as in 2020.” In actuality Trump blew her out of the water in hours…
She took even longer to bother giving a concession speech, which she’s now delivering to a small crowd of supporters. Itself 25 minutes late…
International media has picked up on Emily Maitlis’ on-air meltdown during Channel 4’s election night coverage. Krishnan Guru-Murthy himself had to tell her to stop swearing about Donald in front of shocked guests…
Variety has run the story on her rant:
“When Donald Trump talked about the eating cats and dogs, half of America was just thinking ‘This is batsh*t, I can’t believe what he’s saying, this is gonna be the end of him’”
She then refused to back down after Guru-Murthy told her off and said: “I don’t know what else, how else, you would describe it.” She left the studio soon after…
Mate-less has been posting positive articles about herself on Twitter. She got praise from the Independent for accusing Boris of “importing some of that Trump-like behaviour in Britain.” Yawn…
Variety notes “Ofcom, which classes the word ‘sh*t’ as a moderately offensive word, has the power to investigate and even sanction networks where the broadcasting code has been flouted.” It’s probably too busy fining GB News for letting the public interview the Prime Minister…
Wall Street is reacting with jubilation to the election of a deregulation and low-tax candidate to the White House. As opposed to the one who proposed hikes in capital gains tax, corporation tax, estate tax, and a new financial transaction tax…
Markets are posting an impressive performance today:
- S&P 500 up 2.1% to 5,905.60.
- Dow Jones Industrial Average up 3.3% an all-time peak of 43,614.51. The biggest single-day jump in two years…
- Nasdaq Composite up 2.5% to 18,894.30.sam
- Russell 2000 index up 4.9%.
- Bitcoin up 7% at 74,463.
- Dollar index up nearly 2%.
It’s happened before – the S&P 500 rose 70% over the course of Trump’s first term. Back across the pond rising gilt yields have sustained themselves and are actually getting higher. 10-year gilt yields topped a Truss-beating 4.6% earlier today and are hovering just below right now…
If those borrowing costs are maintained Reeves’ £9.9 billion of “fiscal headroom” as designated by the OBR according to her rules will be completely wiped out. Gilty as charged…
Speaking to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”
