The Telegraph’s evening email political briefing is kaput. It is no more. It is, along with Brogan’s much missed Morning Briefing, a former email:
THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT
This is the last Telegraph Politics Evening Briefing for the foreseeable future. From next week, you’ll be able to find our regular analysis and observations on telegraph.co.uk and in our print edition.Over the last year, providing this briefing has been a lot of fun, and the best of it by far has been hearing from you, the readers: your responses have almost invariably been enlightening and entertaining, and we thank you for them all.
Which seems a little odd for an organisation that apparently has a “digital first” strategy. Is anything sacred at the Telegraph?
Obviously you can still join the thousands of Westminster wags who subscribe the Guido’s evening email.
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“I take full responsibility for employing Andy Coulson. I did so on the basis of undertakings I was given by him about phone hacking and those turned out not to be the case. I always said that if they turned out to be wrong that I would make a full and frank apology and I do that today. I am extremely sorry that I employed him. It was the wrong decision and I’m very clear about that.
I asked him questions about if he knew about phone hacking and he said that he didn’t and I accepted those assurances and I gave him the job. I would say that no one has made any complaints about the work that he did for me either as Leader of the Opposition or indeed here in Number 10 Downing Street, but knowing what I now know and knowing that those assurances weren’t right it was obviously wrong to employ him. I gave someone a second chance and it turned out to be a bad decision.”
Interesting interpretation of “full and frank”…
A mole tells MediaGuido how Kings Place reacted to the news:
“There was wild cheering in newsroom at news that jury had verdict. Now gone deathly silent.”
Gutted…
Stuart Kuttner, Charlie Brooks, Mark Hanna and Cheryl Carter cleared of all charges
— Media Guido (@MediaGuido) June 24, 2014
LOL!
Andy Coulson is guilty of phone hacking.
Headache for No.10…
Bit late to this one, again from Twitter Bitch Fight favourite, Louise Mensch, treating us to a classic Friday evening spat.
Taking exception to James Delingpole’s defence of her former parliamentary colleague Michael Fabricant that morning on Breitbart London, the Stateside social media favourite, once a vocal supporter of the up-and-coming website, trained her fire on its Managing Editor, former pal Raheem Kassam.
Seconds out.
https://twitter.com/RaheemJKassam/status/480021723849687040
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/480023086381924354
https://twitter.com/LouiseMensch/status/480023444214779904
https://twitter.com/RaheemJKassam/status/480023759097966592
Play nicely…
A classic Mail Online toff sex scandal story appeared online late last night, reporting that the multi-millionaire banker and Oxfordshire landowner Jamie Lonsdale, 55, is to marry a Russian pole dancer called Crystal Night following his divorce from wife Laura, once lady-in-waiting to Princess Diana. A cracking tale, and one that would no doubt titillate Mail Online readers, so why has the story been taken down from the website this morning?
Perhaps someone in the office mentioned that Laura Greig, the scorned ex-wife, is the sister of Mail on Sunday editor Geordie Greig. Better hope he didn’t notice…
