The Guardian Media Group has just announced it is making 78 journalists redundant and closing all its weekly newspaper offices in Greater Manchester - 39 jobs will go at the Manchester Evening News and another 39 at the weeklies. Further cuts in advertising, distribution and IT will bring the total ...

The London Standard is pushing a story claiming that a cabinet minister is urging Yvette Cooper to stand as a "Stop Harriet" candidate. Very amusing. If you believe the papers the list of candidates could see Miliband major versus Miliband minor as well as Yvette Balls versus Ed Balls. The list of r...

The multi-millionaire columnist Polly Toynbee is this morning ranting against tax dodging corporations in the Guardian. The paper has even set up a campaigning website with fancy interactive graphics. According to the their own annual report Guardian Media Group made £306.4 million before tax. Usin...

About this time on a Sunday the hacks on the Evening Standard's Londoner's Diary and Peter McKay's Ephraim Hardcastle in the Daily Mail will be looking for stories for next week. Last week, as in many weeks past, they cut 'n pasted from Guido, despite the ©opyright notice, they are nowadays the onl...

Like many in the City, Guido reads the FT for the markets section and the excellent arts section. The political commentary however is often woeful - it is like the Indy in pink. This morning the leader castigates Cameron for a lack of hard policy positions. Fair enough. It also has this barking Euro...

Guido has always believed that the nature of the statist BBC and the non-profit making culture of the Guardian encourages a statist and non-profit making culture to dominate the thinking of the political class. These two media organisations of course see themselves as providing intellectual and mora...

Guido went all out on European gravy affairs last week. Speaking to one of the most media-savvy players on these issues Guido ventured that the Telegraph's coverage was surprisingly thin (in the dead-tree-version) - which given their hardline Euro-sceptic editorial stance seemed bizarre. "Bruno was ...

Janet Daley's stunning insights into the character of Gordon Brown in her Daily Telegraph column last year caused disquiet with many on the right because she is seen to be of the right. She firmly bought into Gordon's project, thinking that he would be intellectually firm in the face of the shallow ...

Loudmouth commie turned warmongering Blair fan, David Aaronovitch, has come a long way on his political journey. He will also travel a long way for lunch it seems. Last month he was speaking at a dinner in Walthamstow, troughing at a fundraiser for Compass, the left-wing pressure group that pushed s...

Why do thirsty Lobby hacks have an annual taxpayer subsidy of £210,000 for their bar? Where is the public interest in this subsidy? What other profession needs a bar at their place of work? The only other business that Guido can think of that gets leads in bars is the oldest profession. Why can't N...