Page 94, the Private Eye podcast. Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94. My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray and I'm here at the

Private Eye offices with Helen Lewis and Adam McQueen. We are here off the back of last night's Paul Foot Award winner

announcement spectacular. We are here with our own bits of extraordinary truth-telling today.

So we are going to be talking about media ownership.

We're going to be looking at anti-woke AI.

And we're going to be looking at my own foray into campaigning journalism on behalf of pavements.

So that's all coming up later.

But first, Adam, there's been a thrilling bit of news about the telegraph.

I think thrilling might be pushing it.

I do my best to talk it up.

There's been another bit of news about the telegraph.

After two years of bits of news about the telegraph, yes.

This is developments in the ongoing non-sale of the telegraph.

How much do we need to recap for readers?

A limited recap.

Essentially, Barclay brothers and family went bust.

It was taken off them by Lloyd's Bank.

It was sold on in a slightly dubious deal outside of the auction process to a fund called Redbird IMI, effectively an arm of the government

of the UAE. Then, amid outrage from various other newspaper proprietors who'd been hoping to

possibly buy the Telegraph themselves, the Telegraph journalists themselves extremely cross about it,

all urged the government

to intervene and stop a foreign government, i.e. the UAE, having control of a British newspaper.

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