Two great con­spir­at­orial minds ana­lyse the Lebedev pur­chase of the Even­ing Stand­ard, or Stand­ard. First Peter Pre­ston:

It mat­ters hugely to Lebedev whether he has to com­pete against the Lite and Murdoch’s thel­on­don­pa­per. (The signs are that he will.) It mat­ters hugely to Asso­ci­ated to know whether a Lebedev Stand­ard would turn itself into a morn­ing paper, com­pet­ing dir­ectly with the Mail and Metro. Con­tinue read­ing →