New boss of The Telegraph is Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan.

[stevensfo]

As well as The Spectator according to this article.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/abu-dhabi-sta ... 00167.html

Will the focus of the Telegraph switch to events in and around Abu Dhabi? Will The Spectator debate the introduction of flogging for unpaid TV licences and beheading for those putting out the wrong wheelie bin?

Steve

PS Why do the arabs always buy our football teams and newspapers? Why can't they buy the train companies?? No more late trains or strikes!

[UncleEbenezer]

I expect they'll continue to take big money from whomsoever - including unsavory foreign governments - wants a platform to get their point of view across.

Maybe arab ownership (if it doesn't get blocked by regulators) will raise the level of scrutiny, and we'll end up with a better level of transparency?

[bluedonkey]

What will happen to those TLF posters who often quote from the Telegraph and also seem to associate the Arab world with much of what is unwelcome in the world?

[monabri]

Ah, but will Lloyd's Bank shareholders get a special dividend?



https://news.sky.com/story/lloyds-share ... l-13020220

(£500m / 63.5bn shares .....or approx 0.78 pence per share).