Ex-Mail editor takes goal at his outdated paper

Editor Geordie Greig took a swipe on the Each day Mail, his former employer, as he delivered the Hugh Cudlipp lecture final night time. Now editor of the Impartial, Greig criticised the Mail’s strategy to Brexit, saying that “contentious slogans on purple buses” and “claims it will remedy all our immigration issues” ought to have been questioned by the paper. “We’re seeing information diluted and distorted and derailed by social media, and in addition in some situations by different elements of the media,” Greig stated, asking “Did elements of the Tory press in Britain exacerbate the issues of the Tory celebration by shedding perspective and being too partisan?”

Greig was sacked as Mail editor in late 2021 after operating a sequence of entrance pages that criticised Boris Johnson’s authorities. Referencing Johnson’s “highly effective pals within the media”, Greig teased that the sudden termination of his employment “may all have been a coincidence”. Whereas Greig praised the Mail’s proprietor Lord Rothermere for private integrity, he made no point out of the chairman Paul Dacre.

Keep in mind Liz Truss’s guide, Ten Years To Save The West? It bagged her an preliminary advance of £1,512.88 within the UK. However the 49-day PM has just lately been in a position to construct on this pocket cash. We word that she is anticipating to be paid three hefty sums for public talking on her US guide tour. Truss, proper, is owed £19,321.68 for a three-hour speech on the Younger America’s Basis, £14,328 for one more one at Pepperdine, a Christian college in California, and £5,054 for her two-hour discuss at Gettysburg Faculty in Washington DC. The ensuing complete of £38,703.68 provides as much as 25 occasions greater than the preliminary advance. Not unhealthy for a day’s work!

Former sort-of Glastonbury headliner Jeremy Corbyn gained’t be attending the pageant this weekend as he busily tries to win his seat as an impartial. However he informed the Customary he nonetheless remembers the roar of the gang when he spoke again in 2017. When he just lately discovered that hippy Glasto founder Michael Eavis had accepted a knighthood, Corbyn stated: “I used to be very shocked about that… I didn’t know he needed it.”

Per week out from polling day, Labour is ramming dwelling its we-won’t-rock-the-boat message. Bankers and different monetary types arrived within the Sq. Mile this morning to be greeted by giant digital billboards of the shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves. “I labored on the Financial institution of England,” they learn. “I’ll all the time put financial stability first.”