Nowhere in the many column inches the Graun devotes to this story on pages 1, 2 and 5 is there room for its journalists to mention that a few years ago Guardian Media Group bought the publisher Emap via a similar offshore device.
If I'm not sure I want to buy a newspaper that uses offshoring to minimise its tax liabilities, I certainly don't want to read one that can't acknowledge its own hypocrisy. The Guardian's holier-than-thou self-righteousness is its least attractive quality even when it occupies the moral high ground. This morning it is struggling up the Amazon, minus paddle.
As the Guardian doesn't mention its awkward Emap purchase, it falls to Private Eye to remind readers every now and again. Helpfully, this week's Eye also tells us that the Guardian's Open Weekend, which punters paid upwards of £50 to attend, ended up losing the paper more than £150,000. Editor Alan Rusbridger said, "Last weekend we did something extraordinary".
Surely some mistake. Since it lost money, the Open Weekend merely continued something the paper does every day.
