http://standpointmag.co.uk Welcome to the Standpoint magazine, the culture and politics monthly en /node/2650 <!--paging_filter--><p>Running a ‘spoiler' is the most joyous pleasures the rat like editor can experience. He knows that a rival paper has a great story coming, so he works out what he can about it and publishes another paper's exclusive as his own. The <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247357/Angry-Gordon-Brown-hit-aide-yanked-secretary-chair.html">Mail on Sunday </a>seems to have done just that with its pre-emptive strike on my Observer colleague's Andrew Rawnsley's <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/End-Party-Andrew-Rawnsley/dp/0670918512">forthcoming book</a> which is due out in a month.<p><a href="/node/2650"><span>read more</span></a></p> /node/2650#comments Andrew Rawnsley Charlie Whelan Gordon Brown Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:27:02 +0000 Nick Cohen 2650 at http://standpointmag.co.uk