Last month saw another round of high-profile job cuts at the Daily Mail, as the paper increasingly shifts resources away from the print product to its podcast division and its Terracotta army of young staffers bashing out stories
about what US reality celebrities have been posting on Instagram. Columnists Craig Brown and Dominic Lawson are out, along with the business editor, head of money and their well-liked PA.
What must make it even more galling for those staff left is that star columnist Nadine Dorries has just filed a six-figure profit at Averbrook, the private company into which she channels her earnings, at Companies House.
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Averbrook’s takings for 2024 – in effect Dorries’s, as it employs one member of staff – amounted to £251,043, according to the new accounts, with profits
working out at just over £4,800 per week.
Her company returned a £98,000 profit in 2023, with the new accounts, signed off last week, reporting £499,834 in assets. Must make up for not getting that seat in the House of Lords, eh Nadine?
