Nigel Farage is tapping up sex swap boxing promoter Kellie Maloney to be a candidate for UKIP. Read all about the talks between the two in Guido’s column in the Sun on Sunday today. Don’t miss out on:
- Tony and Cherie’s public show of force to raise funds for Labour
- Ed Miliband asks a former FHM pin-up girl for her phone number
- Guido speaks to the Tory candidate Michael Gove said he wanted Clegg to beat
- Lord Maude going nowhere
- Who’s that girl? Chuka is telling anyone who will listen about his new love
- Tim Yeo hires wife with just three months to go before he leaves Westminster
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First Penny Mordaunt, now a Cabinet minister litters a parliamentary speech with dirty innuendos. Read all about the latest Commons smut in Guido’s Sun on Sunday column here. Also in today’s column, don’t miss out on:
- LibDem chief whip Don Foster dozes off in Cabinet, don’t tell Nick Clegg!
- Alistair Darling’s money trouble
- UKIP’s Suzanne Evans and Christine Hamilton clash over Rory Bremner
- Is sidelined Mary Creagh taking her new job seriously?
- Grant Shapps not having much luck with his numbers
- Nigel Farage warns David Cameron why Amjad Bashir could be after his job next
- Plotting underway in the Reeves family for life after Miliband
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The official line is that GMG CEO Andrew Miller will be standing down as chief executive and leaving Guardian Media Group at the end of June because he could not give the board a long-term commitment:
GMG and GNM are now embarking on the next major transformation programme and the GMG Board understandably wants a chief executive who is able to see that process through over an extended period of time. Given my desire to move to new challenges, I was unable to give the GMG Board the assurances they were seeking in this regard.
Miller was responsible for the cynical tax strategies that saw hundreds of millions in revenue producing Guardian owned assets held offshore in the Caymans tax haven whilst simultaneously the Guardian campaigned against the practice in editorials. The shifty tax strategies kept the Guardian afloat and built an endowment that will allow the paper to lose money almost in perpetuity. Hypocrisy in print and pixels…
Blair is back: see Guido’s column in today’s Sun on Sunday to read all about Tony’s return to frontline politics as he begins a fundraising drive for gay Labour candidates. Also in today’s column:
- After Penny Mordaunt’s Cockgate, Tory MPs mock Chris Bryant with James Blunt lyrics in parliamentary debate
- The evidence Michael Gove is a secret teeny bopper
- Lynton Crosby tells Tory MPs: don’t mention ‘Labour’, just say ‘Ed Miliband’ over and over again
Head down to your nearest newsagents for four extra Guido stories only in the print edition:
- Inside Labour’s ‘Lash Club’
- Farage’s men-only hustings
- Nannying Jane Ellison slammed by Tory colleagues
- Splitter Jacqui Smith pleads for loyalty
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Note the bottom of the page effort to drive Page 3 fans online…
A few months ago Guido had dinner with the editor of The Sun David Dinsmore and asked him about Page 3. His view was that as long as the market research said his readers wanted it, The Sun would run it. Has the research changed or has the No More Page 3 campaign’s success in gaining support from the likes of the Girl Guides risked making the brand anathema to 51% of the population? Guido suspects the reasoning – if indeed it is actually the case that Page 3 has been discontinued – is a mixture of both.
Ending Page 3 would give a victory not just to people who never buy the newspaper, it would give a victory to people who would rather Britain’s most popular paper didn’t exist. Laurie Penny, the former stripper turned left-wing feminist pundit, summarises that view succinctly:
So @NoMorePage3 has won. Hurray. I'm not anti boobs. I'm against boobs being used to push a right-wing ideology masquerading as news.
— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 19, 2015
Mind you, the quality of Laurie’s media analysis is revealed in this tweet:
Now that Page 3 is gone, we just have to get rid of pages 1, 2, and 4-39. #DontBuyTheSun
— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 19, 2015
She appears to think newspapers can have an odd number of pages…
UPDATE: You can see today’s actual Sun page 3 here. Note well the bottom of the page…
