In a letter to Lord Lebedev, newsroom staff at risk of redundancy hit out at “devastating” plans for 70 job cuts and said that the terms on offer were “among the worst ever seen in the industry”. As many as six women on maternity leave are expected to lose their jobs.
Lord Lebedev is the son of a former KGB officer who received his peerage from Boris Johnson in 2020. He has proposed to make statutory minimum redundancy payments plus £1,000, capped at £21,000.
Clearly government is perfect and has set those stautory rates at what they should be. How could anything else be true?
When I worked in London, one of the ceremonies was to buy an Evening Standard for the Tube or train journey home. It meant that I didn’t have to look at my fellow passengers.
It used to be a top flight newspaper, especially for sport and culture.
Then it became sub-Metro. The rot started when they sacked their cartoonists. I think the Standard declined with commuting in London. It is strange to think that London used to be able to dupport three evening papers as well as the myriad of local s.
Learn to code, lol
NEWSSTARNSTANDARD!
NEWSNSTANDARD!
GETCHASTANDARDHERE!
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ (sound of pigeon cooing)
All went wrong when they stopped making vans with rubber mudguards.
Anyone else remember when newspaper sellers used to cry the headlines?
It all used to come one long word required decoding.
There was a pub I used to frequent did something similar after last orders
ALLRIGHTYOUODDSSODSNSINNERSINLAWSOUTLAWSLORRYDRIVERSNONEEYEDJACKSYERGLASSESPLEASE! NOWYOUCANFUCKOFFHOMEWE’VEADYERMONEY!
I think the first line may have been a little bit longer because it included more specific regulars than just the trucker (Stan).
London cries were a bit of a feature of my childhood. Especially in the markets.
BiS, yes.
And the special Saturday edition of the Evening News my great uncle used to buy, late evening, pink, all the football results.
BiS – I used to buy newspapers when they still had tits in them.
I believe the Graun still has Polly and little Owen – a bigger pair of tits would be hard to find.
djc
We used to get the Saturday Evening News for the footer results/pools too. When I was a student in Portsmouth I bought the local paper, it had a drawing of a sailor on it cheering or frowning depending on the Pompey result.
I was quite sad when the News and Standard amalgamated.
Chris Miller wins the internet tonight.
Chris – a challenging wank, to be fair.
These people are just bitter that they don’t have public-sector jobs.