Guardian and Telegraph have an embargoed story - front page embargoed till 1.30 am. I wonder what it is?

[cakeorwine]

Will it be a Royal story? Harry at the Coronation?

Or something about Zahawi and taxes

I’m pronouncing it em-bar-go-ed. as in ‘em, Ed, it’s your round’.

My guess is the story has been pulled or put on hold. The IMF one was out earlier.

Or not a breakthrough; they've crunched the numbers and the covid vaccinations are actually dangerous, or maybe dangerous for young people?

People'd lose their shit.

I didn't stay up, but I've turned to this thread before anything else. I'm sorry I missed the hedgehogs, but the wondering goes on I guess....

The Royal Foundation story was embargoed yesterday - I assume it's that.

I was agog for the bombshell about Sunak and Madonna <crestfallen>

Well that was a let down.

Well done to the people who stayed up. I nearly checked during the night - but didn't

There was an article on Today about the Coronation and Charles having a transparent canopy so people can see the Annointment

The sacred anointing with oil sounds a bit bonkers.

It's not a new practice.

The original tweet

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1620160944616906752?cxt=HHwWgIDR7fHy-_ssAAAA

Some interesting comments

And his reply about the embargo

twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1620317048751681537?cxt=HHwWgsDTpazxwvwsAAAA

Neil Henderson
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The IMFNEWS has embargoes of steel

😂 it's nearly always something to do with the royals.

If all this trumpeting about early years by Kate gets the gov to invest money desperately needed by this sector then I'm here for it! I do some work in early years ed as part of my job at the moment and I can tell you (anecdotally) that covid has had a sizeable negative impact on language development and social interaction skills in little ones.

An embargo doesn’t mean it’s anything exciting. Every single government report or announcement is released with an embargo against publishing before a set time and date. The only unusual thing here is that it was 1:30 not 00:01.

Of course - I’ve even involved with embargoed stories myself on many occasions but the interesting thing here is the IMF story that appears to have been held till 1.30am was already out there at 10pm; so why the need to have a ring of steel round it?

Ditto, as couldn't keep my eyes open, but catching up with the thread has made me chuckle!

I think the canopy was out in soley so the cameras couldn't see it. I don't think it's part of if the official ritual. No doubt the 'how to crown kings' book written in 10 something will tell us. (There really is such a book. It's in the Abbey library)

The story from the children’s commissioner would have been embargoed and on the front page, so that wouldn’t have been able to have been shown when this thread kicked off.

But the fucking prick-tease journos on Twitter claimed the story was WELL worth staying up til stupid 'clock for.*

*Tell me you were up until 2am without telling me you were up to 2am.

Its just PR puff for the Doolittles.

If she wanted to spend less time with her wardrobe mistress and more campaigning for eg restoration of Surestart then maybe she would be worth taking seriously.

What happened to Kate's LAST early years initiative 🤷😳

Maybe the embargoed bit was blocked.

An embargo doesn’t mean it’s anything exciting. Every single government report or announcement is released with an embargo against publishing before a set time and date. The only unusual thing here is that it was 1:30 not 00:01.

How does that work, though? The next day's papers are available in London by 10pm (or earlier) - they preview them on the TV news.

What happened to Kate's LAST early years initiative

Cass review

Because most of them don't get anywhere near the front page. If it's a big thing, then the embargo is more likely to be during the day, so it will hit the internet and rolling news, with an embargoed press release in advance. Something breaking on the front pages of two papers at an odd time did suggest something investigative rather than a standard release.

I think SureStart were doing Early Years research and support brilliantly before the centres got pulled. What is Kate actually doing?