TORTOISE HELL
SEVEN months on from the
Observer
slipping the surly bonds of the
Guardian
, how is the integration between the paper and its new owner Tortoise going?
As the last Eye noted, the departure of Guardian-era print editor Lucy Rock has left members of the Testudinidae family occupying all the top spots: James Harding and his two deputies Giles Whittell and Basia Cummings. But the divide that has really made itself apparent is not that between the shell-dwellers and the Guardian refugees, but that between senior staff, who work on the fifth floor of the paper’s new Fitzrovia offices, and the galley slaves who toil away four floors below, separated by a number of other businesses that rent space in the building.