Marina Hyde Leaves the Guardian - One Less Transphobe in the Building.
From the latest Private Eye;
“HYDE OUT
Mixed emotions at the Guardian over the departure of Marina Hyde, the long-serving acerbic columnist who is off to pastures new (but remains coy so far about where they might be).
Hyde has enjoyed enormous success with the ever-expanding Rest Is Entertainment podcast she has hosted for Goalhanger with Richard Osman for the past three years, including considerable financial rewards from the hostage video-style adverts the pair voice during the show. She has previously complained to colleagues that her request to take a similar cut from a proposed in-house podcast series for the Guardian itself had been rebuffed by bosses, which led her to seek her fortune elsewhere.
With exquisite timing, Hyde handed in her notice just as the Guardian devoted the cover and five pages of its Saturday magazine to plugging her new book, a collection of columns published by the imprint the paper co-owns with Faber. By way of a hand grenade lobbed over her shoulder into the bearpit of pro-and anti-trans sensitivities that is the Guardian office, Hyde used her exit interview to respond to a reader question, "Who would you pick as prime minister": "JK Rowling.”
What a hateful little troll. Its nice to know which podcast to avoid now.