It's not. Good article from former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook: HSBC and the sham of Guardian's Scott Trust https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-0

It's not. Good article from former Guardian journalist Jonathan Cook: HSBC and the sham of Guardian's Scott Trust https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-sham-of-guardians-scott-trust/ https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2015-03-03/hsbc-and-the-s... The following is quoted in the piece: > The Guardian is not owned by a trust at all. In 2008, “the trust was replaced with a limited company” that was accordingly re-named “The Scott Trust Limited.” Though not a trust at all, but simply a profit-making company, it is still referred to frequently as ‘The Scott Trust,’ promulgating the widely-held but mistaken belief in the Guardian’s inherently benign ownership structure. … The problem, of course, is that the Guardian functions under the same sort of corporate structure as any other major media company.