Boris Johnson had top-secret lunch with Ted Verity last week daily Mail’Clarke’s restaurant, a short walk from the newspaper’s offices in Kensington, west London.
“Ted isn’t exactly a laughing stock, but Boris appears eager to turn him upside down, especially if Paul Dacre, his editor-in-chief, gets his mates and has to sever their ties. Match group, “Whispering in My Man Match Newsroom. “The lunch was an urgent priority for Boris, which may well be in line with speculation that an announcement honoring his resignation is due soon.”
with your former newspaper daily Telegraph Moving pieces that are highly important to both him and Brexit Johnson can now only rely on daily Mail And mail on sunday For blind loyalty.
The lunch appears to have paid dividends for Johnson daily Mail The Saturdays claimed that his name was “repeatedly raised at the door” in the West Lansing by-election, where Labor won with a 10% swing. An unnamed “senior party figure” was quoted as saying: “People are asking the same question – when is he coming back?”
the next day, the mail on sunday chose to completely ignore the story that Sunday Times And Independent Leadership and other papers were prominently featured in: How the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee found Richard Sharpe, who was appointed as chairman of the BBC after settling an £800,000 loan to Johnson, who who was the PM at the time, had “reduced confidence” in the corporation.
Incidentally, perhaps keeping a lid on all this would have been easier if Sharp, a former Goldman Sachs banker, had not loaned Johnson the necessary funds from his own funds. I noticed that he recently had enough in the bank to loan £10.6m to his private investment company DII Capital 2.
Too often these days, theater critics instinctively copy their newspaper views. Not so Clive Davis, who reviews for times, I reported last year on how executives of Today and other newspapers in the Rupert Murdoch stable are ensuring that the aging process is kept to a minimum as their boss celebrates his 92nd birthday next month.
Despite this, Davis acted bravely lehman trilogy, which he awarded five stars when it opened in the West End last week. A major theme of the play is how the bank has been revitalized again and again through its 158-year history with new blood and new ideas.
Nigel Lindsay, one of the Lehman brothers who founded the bank of the same name, actually says at one point: “At 90, a man is as good as dead and can no longer participate in the affairs of the world.”
Meanwhile, Murdoch and his daughter Elizabeth were spotted at last weekend’s Super Bowl, sitting on either side of Elon Musk. Not only did it seem to confirm – as if there was any doubt – where the Twitter owner’s politics lay, but it delighted fans of the TV drama. succession, whose last season ended when right-wing media magnate Logan Roy, played by Brian Cox, shocked everyone by selling his ailing family business to an unruly tech billionaire. Just don’t hold your breath for this comparison to be made in any of the Murdoch papers.
Mandrake hears that Rishi Sunak’s ideologues believed Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to London last week would provide such spectacular coverage that it could give the embattled prime minister a mini-bounce just ahead of the West Lancashire by-election.
Loyalists were duly dispatched to portray the travel time as a humiliation for the EU and a victory for Sunak.
Yet when Labor recorded a 10% swing in West Lans, the same ideologues were interpreting the absence of the Zelensky surge as “Ukraine fatigue” rather than cynicism and his government’s own domestic failures. Blame anyone and anything but yourself.
when i applied for the job european – not this one, but a pan-European newspaper launched in 1990 by the late Robert Maxwell – I was interviewed by its Scottish editor Ian Watson and his Irish deputy Peter Millar. Watson gave me a smooth ride, but Miller wanted to check my European credentials and asked how many continental languages I could speak. I stammered that I could make myself understood in French, and Miller then began to speak to me in it rapidly, fluently, and largely mysteriously. I looked helplessly at Watson. “Don’t worry, boy, I don’t understand much of what the little s*** tells me,” he said. All three of us laughed out loud at this.
I got to know Miller well in his later years, and he became not only a great linguist, intellectual, and writer, but also a great friend and inspiration. It breaks my heart to say that he passed away last week at just 69 years old.
In recent years, Miller wrote for the new european, too, and published a series of excellent books, often about Germany, which fascinated him. He saw the fall of the Berlin Wall and I think it was the happiest time of his life when he felt that Europe looked more united than ever. Needless to say, Brexit left him disappointed. In his book 1989: The Berlin Wall, My Part in Its Downfall, he mournfully admitted: “I had made the mistake of assuming that politics and logic would drive the progress of history, rather than more powerful factors: emotion and accident.”