the long-awaited 'why the telegraph is going downhill' thread

[stavros]

I'd been looking for this thread to mention the ongoing court case, where three of Dave Barclay's sons are accused of bugging a room at the Ritz to listen to Fred and his daughter.

 

[Steel Icarus]

If Johnson had actually had Covid19, I wonder if he'd have got more mileage out of it if he'd snuffed it ...

 

[gentlegreen]

I mean the party/government might have benefited from having a martyr ..

 

[Steel Icarus]

I mean the party/government might have benefited from having a martyr ..

Yeah, that bit I get, but do you not believe Johnson had it?

 

[gentlegreen]

Yeah, that bit I get, but do you not believe Johnson had it?

Plenty doubt he did ...
They also reckon that sprog of his looks far too advanced for his age ...

 

[Badgers]

It’s in the UK’s national interest for Trump to triumph

The president’s many flaws shouldn’t distract from the many successes of his extraordinary first term

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[NoXion]

Douglas Murray living up to his title as a skidmark.

 

[Roadkill]

Here. FFS .

 

[gentlegreen]

Jebus wept

 

[Roadkill]

Jebus wept

"The Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by the people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country, and the Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is."

 

[equationgirl]

The Empire? What are they talking about, the Siege of Mafeking?

 

[Dogsauce]

I think they’ve become more deranged, having got their man in no.10 they just feel they can push that nativist empire bullshit boat right out now. High on power.

 

[gentlegreen]

I wonder how many UK citizens actually believe there's still an empire ...
Of course it's convenient that those who do are mostly beyond the age where they might be called upon to fight for it ...

 

[Streathamite]

Here. FFS .

fucking hell!

 

[Steel Icarus]

It's frankly a heritage that needs burning down and the earth salted after.

 

[JimW]

Plus not one in twenty of them knows the first fucking thing about it anyway, and those that do only if they've read Flashman.

 

[Roadkill]

It's frankly a heritage that needs burning down and the earth salted after.

You could try and erase every trace of the empire but the history would still be there. The question is who gets to tell it and how.

 

[Lurdan]

archived version of paywalled article here

This article has attracted some derision on social media from people who see it as the Telegraph falling for an attempt to make 'pizzagate' tropes respectable by a supporter of Qanon-lite views. The Instagram account of the 'social media activist' the article is about certainly doesn't contradict this interpretation, although it also doesn't unambiguously confirm it.

But is it all that unreasonable to imagine that paedophiles might indeed use crab-like cunning to appropriate 'pizzagate' tropes for their own purposes? When it comes to child protection is it possible to be too suspicious? Applying the 'precautionary principle' should we indeed not go much further and be appropriately concerned about the motives of an 'activist' whose response to sites sharing family photographs of small children is to set up a twitter account

dedicated to naming accounts she finds sharing child images so her followers can report them en masse to the social media giants.

Isn't this just what a cunning paedophile might do to advertise such sites?

Clearly we can't be sure one way or the other. However, presumably in response to the Telegraph advertising the account, Twitter have now removed it.

 

[stavros]

A diagram of what those pizza emojis look like:

 

[frogwoman]

How have the Good Luvvies got away with wishing death on Trump?

The self-righteous Left is subjected to different rules from those of us on the Right

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[stavros]

The Telegraph tries its hand at up-skirting:

 

[flypanam]

David Barclay is dead. Oh well no loss.

 

[stavros]

David Barclay is dead. Oh well no loss.

Plenty of loss to the Exchequer, as his estate gets syphoned through a myriad of offshore trusts.

 

[Nikkormat]

Courtesy of Priyamvada Gopal on Twitter:



Source, if you can bear it.

It really is a piss rag of the worst sort. I teach Politics; at one time, I would have directed students towards it for a reasonable conservative viewpoint. Now, I struggle to differentiate it from The Mail.

 

[stavros]

Courtesy of Priyamvada Gopal on Twitter:

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Source, if you can bear it.

It really is a piss rag of the worst sort. I teach Politics; at one time, I would have directed students towards it for a reasonable conservative viewpoint. Now, I struggle to differentiate it from The Mail.

It has, at times, been dubbed the Maily Telegraph.

 

[Pickman's model]

Courtesy of Priyamvada Gopal on Twitter:

View attachment 250154

Source, if you can bear it.

It really is a piss rag of the worst sort. I teach Politics; at one time, I would have directed students towards it for a reasonable conservative viewpoint. Now, I struggle to differentiate it from The Mail.

it's easy to tell the difference as in print form the telegraph remains a broadsheet while the mail is a tabloid

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It's considered a personal insult to Telegraph writers if you suggest they might know anything about Ireland. "Good god, are you implying I think the Irish are worth caring about? You will be hearing from my solicitor."

 

[stavros]

I've always wanted to bring up switching from the Telegraph to my dad, who I think has read it non-stop for over forty years. The Times would be the obvious replacement, but he thinks Murdoch is a cunt (his opinions on the Barclays and prior to them Conrad Black are not known). He wouldn't go near the Graun, the FT would hold no interest and the tabloids are definitely a no-go.

 

[ska invita]

Today in the Telegraph: why despite popular opinion Day is actually Night:

 

[ska invita]

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