[Andy McDandy]

Amusingly, and predictably, Fenton's pet twat hates Viner, saying she's a backsliding sell out and a Tory in disguise.

Then again, he says that about everyone.

[Tubby Isaacs]

My guess the The Guardian is sensing a generational shift in its potential audience. When Corbyn leading Labour, they didn't like him much, with Viner already the editor.

It's virtually constant unhelpful framing. Priti Patel has said the US strike is "essential" which is a mile further on than what Starmer or Jonathan Reynolds said, but the Guardian have made it sound like they said the same thing. "The main parties, maaaan, they're all the same". And if they're not- see Ed Miliband's budget going up- you get all the speculation that they were going to be the same.

Having said this, I'd probably forgive Viner if she sacked Simon Jenkins.

[Boiler]

Amusingly, and predictably, Fenton's pet twat hates Viner, saying she's a backsliding sell out and a Tory in disguise.

Then again, he says that about everyone.

I wonder how said individual feels about Ash Sarkar of Novara Media now being a regular participant on The Moral Maze these days?

[Tubby Isaacs]

I remember this story from a while ago.

Treasury threatens Defra with £4bn bill if Thames Water nationalised

Exclusive: Treasury threat an example of ‘scare tactics’ to help force through private sector deal, sources suggest

https://www.theguardian.com/business/20 ... tionalised

All I can see is that somebody produced an estimate. Where are the "threats"? Where does anyone say DEFRA would have to pay the cost out of its existing budget?

And, yeah, the example of Bulb (the government made a profit on that) is encouraging and there could be no cost. But that wasn't how the nationalization of Bulb was seen at the time it was happening. The OBR thought the loss to the Government would be £2bn. But hey, a "source" said, did they? Nationalisation has sounded more likely since then. The Treasury isn't very good at threatening, by the look of it.