The Lebedev Standard, Part 4: Are former KGB officers “fit and proper”?
Time to confess. Last week, instead of checking out the potential for government oversight of Alexander Lebedev’s purchase of the…
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The Lebedev Standard, Part 1: What’s in the deal?
The press release announcing the sale of the Evening Standard to Alexander Lebedev issued by Daily Mail & General Trust…
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Evidence of changed priorities chez Rothermere: finance director Peter Williams tells the FT he doesn’t understand all of the fuss…
ByPlaying with the price tags inside Lord Rothermere’s pound shop
The Times reports that Alexander Lebedev is expected to pay £1 for the Evening Standard. As regular customers of so-called…
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A former KGB spy turned Russian billionaire businessman buying London’s only paid-for daily newspaper sounds pretty far fetched. But if…
ByIs Evening Standard’s Nicholas de Jongh ready to kiss and make up with Kevin Spacey?
Theatregoers who read London’s Evening Standard must be feeling pretty confused: A couple of years ago, the Standard’s Nicholas de…
ByWonder why Woolies is filling Jane Moore’s column?
As expected, Fleet Street’s women columnists have leapt on the Gordon Ramsay ‘scandal’ like a pack of vicious, sharp-tongued hyenas. …
ByThe Standard says that Brenda feels your pain. No, really. . .
Journalists and recessions don’t get on well together. Sooner or later, a downturn becomes an exercise in standing around, waiting…
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