
Michael Savage
Policy Editor at The Guardian
Media Editor, The Guardian. Views my own. DMs open. 👇👇👇[email protected]
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4 days ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
Lisa Nandy has removed herself from the final decision over who will lead the new football regulator, after it emerged the preferred candidate had donated to the culture secretary’s Labour leadership campaign. David Kogan, a media executive who was nominated by the government as chair of the independent football regulator earlier this year, revealed last month that he had given money to Nandy during her bid to succeed Jeremy Corbyn in 2020. He also gave money to Keir Starmer’s campaign.
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5 days ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
There was a packed news agenda on 3 October 1738. The father of the notorious highwayman Dick Turpin had been arrested after being found with a stolen horse. Cannon fire rang out in St Petersburg to mark a Russian victory over the Ottoman Empire. In America, four families had been killed in Virginia in clashes with Native Americans. Meanwhile, a horse fell in the Thames at Westminster, nearly causing a drowning.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
An investigation into a covert operation by the Mossad to sabotage an international criminal court war crimes investigation is among the Guardian journalism recognised at the UK’s Press Awards. The stories by investigations correspondent Harry Davies lifted the lid on the activities of Israel’s foreign intelligence agency, which are usually a closely guarded secret.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
It is a scenario straight from the footballing world. A public falling out, leading to a star player becoming a free agent. From the moment Gary Lineker’s hastened departure from the BBC was announced this week, after he apologised for amplifying a social media post with antisemitic connotations, speculation began over his next move. In truth, however, the 64-year-old had already been thinking about his plans beyond the broadcaster.
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2 weeks ago |
theguardian.com | Michael Savage
The days of discussing last night’s television over the office water cooler are long gone. If you want a hit show among gen Z – or for them to know it even exists – it has to make a splash on their social media feeds, Channel 4’s bosses have concluded. Executives have spotted a trend in which increasingly hard-to-reach younger viewers are discovering programmes through the attention they receive on TikTok and other social media platforms.
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At the end of last year, I wrote that a US trade deal wasn't about "hormone beef" anymore - it was about higher grade US meat entering without tariffs. That sounds like what has happened... I don't think the NFU will take this lightly... https://t.co/C81vynxYvG

When MPs start putting their names to this stuff, it's a moment. Rebellion shortlist now established

🚨Disability benefit cuts impossible to support, 42 Labour MPs tell Starmer MPs from across the party call for a pause and rethink. Full list of names here https://t.co/5ySXQeDNl6

NEW: You know “news avoidance” is a real thing when the great Lyse Doucet, one of the country’s most prominent war correspondents, says she knows the feeling… “I too have been turning away from news and listening to Radio 3 instead of Radio 4.” Story: https://t.co/rdSbFlIppl