Guardian CEO Pay Hits £5 Million, and Somehow That’s Everyone Else’s Fault By Freja Lindholm | London The Guardian has confirmed that their corporate bosses now earn 130 times the salary of the average worker, a statistic so alarming that Guardian executives reportedly required a full afternoon, a chauffeured car and a modest £5.06 million to properly recover from it. According to the newspaper’s own investigation, the median pay package for…
Andy Burnham’s First Act of Northern Devolution: Relocate Every Left-Wing Newspaper to Manchester Labour declares Britain cannot truly rebalance the economy until every columnist is forced to complain about the rain from a different postcode. Britain’s incoming political revolution has finally identified the nation’s greatest regional inequality. It isn’t investment. It isn’t transport. It isn’t wages. It’s the embarrassing fact that almost every newspaper editorial demanding socialism is still being…
Whitehall Defends Overseas Research Programme By Asking, “Would You Prefer The Germs Remain Unsupervised?” LONDON — British officials found themselves in the unusual position this week of commenting on revelations from the United States that dozens of overseas biolaboratories had received American support, prompting Whitehall to reassure the public that, whatever Britain may or may not be doing, it is undoubtedly being managed through a committee that meets on alternate Thursdays…
Plus Social Promises “Free Speech Plus,” Refuses to Clarify What the Plus Covers When Plus Social launched, it did so with the confidence of a startup that has read exactly three history books and skimmed the table of contents. The promise was bold, heroic even: Free Speech Plus. Not just free speech, mind you. That’s old speech. That’s speech with dents in it. This was speech with an upgrade, speech…
Behavioural research suggests starting with final paragraph reduces anxiety and prepares readers for disappointment Reading the News Backwards People already skim the news; reading it backwards just makes that honest. Most articles end by admitting nothing is resolved. Headlines are designed to frighten you; conclusions are designed to calm advertisers. Reading the last paragraph first saves time and emotional energy. Nobody reaches the end of an article unless they are…
