So farewell then Daniel Hannan, the Tory MEP who has written a blog for the Telegraph since 2007, who liked putting finger to keyboard because the platform meant that “no longer could the old media asphyxiate a story by choosing not to report it”. As the Tel is moving most of its bloggers to the comment section, he has decided to take his views – summed up on his Twitter page (@DanHannanMEP) as “Loves Europe, not the EU” – to a new site called CapX. It declares itself “for popular capitalism”. Hannan should feel right at home in that case.
Meanwhile, Jon Laurence, a former Sky News producer who joined telegraph.co.uk in August 2013 to commission original video and was recently promoted to head of planning, is jumping ship to become digital editor of Channel 4 News. The 26-year-old is a former president of the Cambridge Union Society and was the “phone a friend” to former Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson on Celebrity Who Wants to be a Millionaire.
These moves come on the day it was announced that another former Telegraph Towers dweller, Benedict Brogan, is joining Lloyds bank as director of group public affairs. Frying pans and fires spring to mind.
