If trainers were sold like newspapers, Nike would be giving them away for free

Writing on the Guardian’s website, and perhaps in the paper too, although I’m not wholly sure they still print one (subs, please check), their investigations editor David Leigh has made a bold suggestion for the future of the press. He’s been around, Leigh, and is as dogged a hack as you could hope to find on a newspaper, or whatever, which only prints tits on the arts pages. He’s a bit wobbly on the online side of things, granted (he accidentally gave the entire world access to the full set of unredacted Wikileaks cables by blithely sticking the password in a book), but that’s probably just a function of age. And, like I said, he’s had an idea.

Leigh’s idea is that Britain’s newspapers, including his own, could be funded by sticking a £2 levy on every broadband subscription in the country. And actually, this is not the daftest idea I’ve ever heard for the future of newspapers.