BBC Making Foreign Office Documentary
The BBC has commissioned a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the inner workings of the Foreign Office, Guido hears. The Beeb has wanted to produce a behind-the-scenes film revealing the inner workings...
View ArticleGove: No to Chlorine Chicken
Michael Gove flatly ruled out chlorinated chicken in Brexit Britain’s supermarkets on the Today programme, hours after Liam Fox insisted there was no health issue with US-style chemically washed...
View ArticleA Classic of the Genre
Yesterday’s hat-trick of Brexit good news is covered the only way the FT knows how… The post A Classic of the Genre appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
View ArticleSock-puppet “charity” the IEA slapped down by regulator for general election...
Somehow, the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) enjoys charitable status, which means they are not required to disclose who funds them. This allows the IEA to carry out its work of lobbying for...
View ArticleGDP Would Need to Collapse 5% in Next 12 Months to Meet Osborne’s Treasury...
Worth reading the new growth figures in the context of the Treasury’s pre-referendum projections. HMT warned that in the two years following a Leave vote, the UK would enter recession with GDP falling...
View ArticleCBI Survey: Everything is Awesome for Manufacturing
The ONS Q2 fall in manufacturing is due to a significant drop in the manufacture of cars. Elsewhere it’s a different picture if you read the new CBI Quarterly Trends survey, a long-standing survey of...
View ArticleCorbyn Deletes Another Wrong Tweet
Yesterday Corbyn tweeted out a Telegraph article, crowing: “As school holidays start today, many will struggle to meet childcare costs, which have doubled under @conservatives“. Amusingly, this...
View ArticleTelegraph Publishes 17 Stories About Love Island in 24 Hours
Remember when MediaGuido uncovered the Telegraph’s “trash traffic” strategy to game Search Engine Optimisation and secure millions of extra Google juice clicks? Well, in the last 24 hours the...
View ArticleMomentum Use Vote Leave Actress in Student Debt Video
Momentum last night posted a rushed rebuttal video attempting to limit the damage of Corbyn’s student debt u-turn. An eagle-eyed co-conspirator has noticed they employed the services of the same...
View Article+ Paul Harrison New Press Sec ++ Kirsty Buchanan to No.10 ++ Davis Hires...
Guido can reveal a raft of new senior special adviser appointments. The new Number 10 press secretary is Paul Harrison, an experienced SpAd who moves from the Department of Health. He is...
View ArticleWelsh SpAds Cost Taxpayer More Than £700,000
The Labour government in Wales employed a total of 13 special advisers in the last year; that compares to around 70 in Westminster. You’d think the relatively low number would equate to savings for...
View ArticleHundreds of BBC Jobs Offshored Under £560 Million Contract
Hundreds of BBC IT jobs will be offshored to India and Poland under a £560 million contract renewal with outsourcing firm Atos. The Register reports that this latest development in the BBC’s troubled...
View ArticleAbi Now Doesn’t Want 100% Inheritance Tax – for Herself
Abi Wilkinson’s plan for a 100% inheritance tax in The Guardian was met with derision and some scepticism. She has now revised her plans and would actually quite like to inherit thousands from her...
View ArticleMaitlis v The Mooch
Emily Maitlis interviews the new White House comms chief Anthony Scaramucci, who says he has no idea about chlorine chicken but there will “100%” be a UK-US trade deal. Worth a watch… The post Maitlis...
View ArticleFormer MP Abusing Parliamentary Pass to Conduct Lobbying Activities
An unnamed former MP has been censured by the Serjeant-at-Arms for abusing their parliamentary pass and conducting lobbying activity on the parliamentary estate. The Sarjeant is unimpressed: “The...
View ArticlePetrol and Diesel Ban Hypocrites Praise French and Bash British
The UK government’s ban on petrol and diesel car sales from 2040 caused many to jump on the electric-powered outrage bus this week. Let’s start with London mayor Sadiq Khan, who instantly panned the...
View ArticleSeb Corbyn Embarrassed By Momentum Video Mocking Nepotism
Momentum have released a new video parodying a middle class garden lunch where the capitalist classes sneer at young Corbyn voters over glasses of white wine. The film mocks one posh character who...
View ArticleAnti-Grammars Labour MP Sent Both Her Sons to Grammar School
New Canterbury Labour MP Rosie Duffield campaigned on an anti-grammars platform at the election, saying she wanted “no new grammar schools” as they are “not the way forward” and the 11+ is a...
View ArticleStop The War’s Free Tours Round Imperial War Museum
The publicly-funded Imperial War Museum is giving a free tour to members of the Stop the War Coalition which will be led by a notorious hard-left agitator. Activists from the group, long associated...
View ArticleLabour’s Brexit Shambles
Completely clueless… and that’s just this week… The post Labour’s Brexit Shambles appeared first on Guido Fawkes.
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