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Send me your email address and I will send you proof.

A bit rich coming from someone who believes in conspiracy theories or throws things around here without any proof. I have worked in the media and for the CPS so have probably a bit more experience than someone who fills shelves at Tescos. That is not to knock Tescos employees by the way. Have you found the proof that I called Trump a warmonger, that I am a racist/fascist and sided with Biden over his son’s pardon yet?

Although he scored last night he is still mostly a bench warmer there.

Interesting perspectives from those who are there. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yx56ep165o.amp

Now it’s just getting silly. Richard Osman apologises for defending Wallace for being boring! https://www.express.co.uk/showbiz/tv-radio/1983920/bbc-richard-osman-greg-wallace-masterchef/amp

The vast majority of our quality players leave or have left under any CEO.

We did have some quality. Kevin Davies, Beattie, Pahars, Killer…

Well, it’s a start https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2024/dec/03/mps-back-proportional-representation-system-uk-elections

More allegations broadcast about Wallace on the BBC News tonight. The BBC and the production company cannot comment while the investigation is carried out but it is ok for the BBC to broadcast these new allegations to the country. Surely if criminality is suspected it should be dealt with by the police and CPS and any other inappropriate behaviour through the HR internal processes. Crucifying someone in the mainstream media before any investigations have been completed and conclusions drawn seems to be the thing now.

Absolutely! It seems dear old nic likes to throw accusations about but can’t back them up. It’s always fun to have an exchange with a conspiracy theorist. He can’t answer so has just resorted to laughing emojis. To paraphrase, laughing emojis have become the last refuge of a scoundrel. 😂

We don’t know what would have happened. We might have found an owner with more money, a more reliable CEO and a longer lifespan? It’s all ifs and buts.

I agree with you. Lowe did manage to keep as afloat on crowds of 15000 and I remember him saying there were times he didn’t know where the next £1 was coming from. He was accused of not finding funding but after he was ousted the first time came back and said that he had knocked on the same doors as his predecessors with no joy either. A club of our size, without silly money backing, relies on quality recruitment from top to bottom. We don’t have that currently whereas it has been better before.

As well as reclaiming the money, it would be good to see the people responsible behind bars if any corruption is found. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvg6r7zk47eo.amp

We used to carry out surveys on readership. Many would say they bought The Guardian one day a week for the job adverts (media Mondays, education Tuesdays, social services Wednesdays). One person told me he bought it for the Doonesbury cartoon and another Tim Bell’s cartoons. The editor must have wondered why he was bothering with so many journalists on the staff.

Back in the 70’s when I was commuting into London I would buy the Daily Mail and the Evening Standard for the crossword puzzles. The Times was too difficult for me!

Nic, explain to me how it is that when Trump looses it is down to a deep state conspiracy but when he wins it is all perfectly legit? So no answer, just a laughing emoji. Come on. If the deep state prevented him from winning before, why did they fail this time?

It’s very sad, but not surprising, to see such declines in print circulation. I worked for The Guardian back in the 80’s when we nearly reached 500,000 (a lot of a left of centre broadsheet). We were boosted by the Gang of Four and from the formation of the Social Democrats which then morphed into the Liberal Democrats. There was a lot of interest in centrist politics back then. Unfortunately the writing was on the wall when online news/advertising started to pick up and I was part of an economic cull in 2000. The Guardian/Observer used to make about 50% of its income from print sales and 50% from advertising. Other titles had circulations in their millions and it is incredible to see how they all have fallen. Although newspapers don’t carry the weight they used to, front pages and news stories flood social media and the fact that we still refer to headlines in the Mail or Telegraph shows they still have clout. The are general social media platforms that still have threads dedicated to news directly from newspapers and they get a lot of traffic. When I was younger front pages used to be dedicated to news with opinion pieces found deeper within the paper. Now most of the titles flood their front pages with their opinions, which is where the problem lies. Most of our mainstream titles are just puff pieces for right wing politics. The Mirror tries to do the same for left wing politics but gets crowded out by the others. The Guardian doesn’t do the same job for the left and centre that the Mail, Express, Telegraph and Times does for right wing politics on its front page. My contacts still at The Guardian/Observer work in Production and Circulation, both areas that have been squeezed over the last 20 odd years with experienced manages being let go and replaced by “bean counters”. Sad to see and maybe there will be a big enough resurgence in print sales to keep it going longer, after all who thought that vinyl would make a comeback?

I don’t know where to start with this nic. You have a pop at “lefty loons” as you call them but have absolutely no problem with right wing nut jobs?? You seem to have convinced yourself that the election was stolen from Trump. The only people I am aware of who believe that nonsense are the MAGA crowd. You claim that you don’t take sides yet you take Trump’s side all the time. You even accused me today of siding with Biden over his son’s pardon when I did the opposite. You have the temerity to call people who don’t agree with fools and loonies but get upset when people say the same to you ( it makes you a hypocrite by the way). You are clearly biased on the side of the Trump’s and Musk’s of this world. Just man up and admit it. Have the courage of your convictions. I know you can do it 😉 (if you are right about Musk, why are people leaving X in their millions rather than flocking to this new bastion of free speech?) No response, just another pointless laughing emoji. Come on nic. Do you believe that platforms for free speech should be used to spread lies and propaganda? Ok with that?

Again, you make up your own fantasy. I don’t stalk people, never have. If I did you would see a lot more of posts from me following their posts wouldn’t you. As it is I rarely respond to them. Keep firing away though nic, you might actually get something right eventually.

It’s alright egg, I don’t include you in the list 😉 They know who they are.

Says the forum Gregg Wallace impersonator who accuses anyone who criticises Netanyahu and his government as antisemites. Hasn’t it ever occurred to you that if I agreed with your views I would support them? 🙄

That doesn’t make me a racist, far right extremist, quite the opposite. You have managed to pollute poor old gullible Nic now. Isn’t it time to trot off and play games on COT? You really need to grow up, stop stalking people and maybe get on with your job? Questions -Would you consider Trump, Farage, Tommy Robinson and Katie Hopkins to be “far right”. Would you consider people who back up their views to have “far right” views themselves? Why do you get yourself in a lather when someone else has a pop at far right politics?

Oh dear. If you look elsewhere you will see that I haven’t defending Biden in this. Yet again you make up something and present it as evidence. You are doing it again. You are posting hard conclusions without any evidence whatsoever. What was it I said that makes me a racist fascist? This is a perfect example of how conspiracy theorists work. Most people here see right through me? You use a small group of antiwoke warriors as your evidence. Do some proper digging. Find some proper evidence and get back to me. A hint for you. If you take your information from Turkish you are even more gullible than you appear. By the way, if you think that Biden is “over using his powers” what is your position on Trump’s pardons?

Putin loves to use NATO, a defensive organisation, as a boogie man to justify his actions. He already has NATO on other borders without any threat to him in the past and none now, even though he has invaded a sovereign country. Why wouldn’t other countries on his borders would not want NATO protection give Putin’s actions in the past?

Do some more digging and you will see why the staff are so concerned. The Scott Trust is there to protect the editorial propriety and independence of its newspapers. Once it is sold it is at the mercy of its new owners. There are also concerns about the financial situation at Tortoise, a loss making organisation that only launched in 2019. https://pressgazette.co.uk/news/who-owns-tortoise-media-observer/