(If you think I look dead behind the eyes there you do not want to see a photo of me today)
The Paul Foot Awards are always a riot, but was extra special to see top hack and all round good bloke @petergeoghegan.bsky.social take home the top prize last night for his bombshell scoops with Khadija Sharife on Labour Together.
Here we are enjoying some light refreshments in Soho afterwards...
lol
Awful.
In Stokey earlier and thought they’d pedestrianised Church Street for the Arsenal festivities. Turned out to be some fortuitously timed Thames Water works closing the road!
Five years after Lex Greensill accused me of a "significant amount of character assassination", the once-influential financier behind collapsed lending firm Greensill Capital has been banned from acting as a company director in the UK for nine years.
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Still one of the most memorable phone calls of my career!
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Latest on Thames Water creditor takeover plan:
💥 Thames would pay $1bn of “transaction costs” under proposed deal (includes various fees and other costs)
💥 Apollo has agreed to backstop new £6.5bn debt package
💥Hedge fund Silver Point now Thames’s largest creditor
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