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Kwasi Kwarteng only lasted 38 days before he resigned as chancellor, but these reactions, memes and tweets will live on forever.

From Michael Gove trolling to that The Thick Of It quote, the best moments on social media amid the chaos.

Award-winning former Huffpost and Buzzfeed journalists are among 17 new appointments at the i following a round of “big investment in original journalism” from owner DMGT. Six more positions are still being advertised, taking the size of the i newsroom over the 100 mark. It started its journey away from former sister paper The Independent in 2016, when it was bought by Johnston Press, with 12 journalists. Aasma Day, who was North of England correspondent at Huffpost UK until more than a doz...

Advertisement Piers Morgan today tweeted that he was cancelling himself from the Press Awards, which is run by industry body the Society of Editors  Piers Morgan today cancelled himself from the Society of Editors Columnist of Year shortlist before some deranged wokie tries to do it -  after the organisations director was forced out for defending the press against Meghan Markles racism claims.  He tweeted today: Ive been nominated in @EditorsUK awards as Columnist of the Year. Obviously, so...

Society of Editors board members hold urgent meeting after executive director Ian Murray quit last night  It follows SoEs reaction to comments made by the Duke and Duchess of Sussex about racism in the media Statement provoked furious response from board members including Oly Duff, Vic Motune and Eleanor Mills Its also been criticised by Daily Mirror, Guardian, Financial Times, Evening Standard and HuffPost UK editors 

The i is creating about 20 journalist jobs this year following a cash influx from new parent company Daily Mail and General Trust. Staff were told on Wednesday that as part of this investment there will be a reorganisation of the newsroom, merging the print and digital teams for the first time. Mail and Metro publisher DMGT bought the i for £49.6m in November 2019, but the title continued to operate separately until March – just before the first Covid-19 lockdown hit – when the deal was cl...

News Corp editors and execs met ministers 40 times in first 14 months of Johnson government News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch and his top executives in the UK and US met Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other high-level Government politicians seven times between them in seven weeks last summer. Murdoch (pictured) met with Johnson, paid for lunch with Chancellor Rishi Sunak, ate a private dinner with Michael Gove and had an “informal lunch between friends” with Jacob Rees-Mogg betw...

Formerly pro EU newspapers turn on the bloc over vaccine nationalism and playground bully tactics Even the UK’s formerly pro-European newspapers have rounded on the EU over the Commission’s threats to halt vaccine exports and its call for Astra Zeneca to divert UK vaccine production to Europe. The FT, which has long been a supporter of UK EU membership, writes in its leader: “…the commission was notably slower than the UK or US in signing contracts, and thus preparing the supply chain. ...