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

[T & P]

Will be interesting to see the viewing figures if/when he comes back

Probably back to normal, and that would be understandable. Lineker is intelligent & principled enough to avoid saying anything remotely off topic on MOTD. And that’s a major part of the argument for his defence: he has never expressed any political opinion on MOTD, only on his personal social media accounts.

 

[two sheds]

Yep a peak for any first episode and drop after that - might attract a few more viewers longer term.

 

[two sheds]

Yep a peak for any first episode and drop after that - might attract a few more viewers longer term.

The headline above will read "Lineker viewers plummet on second episode"

 

[8ball]

That the Torygraph is turning increasingly Daily Mailesque in its desperately biased reporting has been obvious for a while. Today they have plumbed yet new depths as they actually attempt to suggest that the indescribably shit and cringeworthy MOTD episode last night was actually an improvement on the usual output

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I’m sure for me it would have been no more or less tedious than normal, but I suspect this pundit’s opinion is worth no more than mine on the matter.

 

[T & P]

 

[stavros]

Am I missing something here?

 

[PR1Berske]

The middle aisle is not for the upper classes.

 

[danny la rouge]

Am I missing something here?

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Sam Cam is doing In Touch With Ordinary People performance.

 

[stavros]

Is it know whether the Telegraph made any attempt to get their old columnist back? Admittedly there's not much difference between the Mail and the Telegraph, so did they get outbid?

Or are the proprietors too busy trying the patience of a high court judge?

 

[T & P]

I wonder if Telegraph hacks and contributors have a private bet going on who can get the most batshit crazy opinion piece published...

 

[Lurdan]

I wonder if Telegraph hacks and contributors have a private bet going on who can get the most batshit crazy opinion piece published...

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Not sure how you'd be able to judge who'd won

Britain can still escape the OECD’s radical plan for permanent socialism (archived)

 

[stavros]

I wonder if Telegraph hacks and contributors have a private bet going on who can get the most batshit crazy opinion piece published...

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Allister Heath is the Usain Bolt of this race:

 

[DaveCinzano]

Allister Heath is the Usain Bolt of this race:

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As editor of the STorygraph, he leads by example, even if it means having to hold his nose and appear in the Daily

 

[Cloo]

I'm sure all these stories are totally true and not in any way made up social media bs, especially the cat one

 

[_Russ_]

Not sure how you'd be able to judge who'd won

Britain can still escape the OECD’s radical plan for permanent socialism (archived)

OK usual headline Hyperbole but from a capitalist point of view the argument made in the article makes sense, the plan would disadvantage the UK.

 

[Rob Ray]

Calling any OECD policy "a radical plan for worldwide socialism" isn't just hyperbole, it's full-on batshit. It's like calling the IMF a Marxist front. Anyone saying it should immediately be dismissed as too unserious to be worth further thought. But here we are, or rather here the Telegraph is, not just allowing this drivel to go to print but prominently putting it in headlines.

 

[Cloo]

Leaning into the disability/mentally unwell hatred again

 

[stavros]

Judge calls latest stage of Frederick Barclay’s battle with ex-wife a ‘charade’​

Hopefully if he goes to prison for contempt the 88 year-old will be well treated by his fellow inmates.

 

[platinumsage]

Pictured here is not anywhere at Eton, but the Vaughan Library at Harrow School.

 

[Pickman's model]

Pictured here is not anywhere at Eton, but the Vaughan Library at Harrow School.

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rather a niche piece of knowledge. did you go to harrow to know that, or eton to know it wasn't your auld school?

 

[platinumsage]

rather a niche piece of knowledge. did you go to harrow to know that, or eton to know it wasn't your auld school?

No, not sure why it's niche either, it's classic George Gilbert Scott. Do you not know anything of London's architecture except in respect of those buildings you have had direct involvement with?

 

[Pickman's model]

No, not sure why it's niche either, it's classic George Gilbert Scott. Do you not know anything of London's architecture except in respect of those buildings you have had direct involvement with?

it's niche because very few other people - myself not among them - have any knowledge of public school library buildings. i'd wager a fiver that no one here except our resident old etonians and harrovians, and of course you, would have spotted the telegraph's error. sure, i've some knowledge of london's architecture. but you've found my limits, it doesn't extend as far as the bastions of the wealthy in northwest london. now, if the picture had been of the shawl near south harrow station or the windermere by south kenton station - why, that's a whole different ballgame

 

[Chz]

I can see it from the office window when I'm attending to on site matters. I can assure you we don't have many, if any, Harrow grads. It's up on a big fucking hill and visible for miles.

 

[platinumsage]

it's niche because very few other people - myself not among them - have any knowledge of public school library buildings. i'd wager a fiver that no one here except our resident old etonians and harrovians, and of course you, would have spotted the telegraph's error. sure, i've some knowledge of london's architecture. but you've found my limits, it doesn't extend as far as the bastions of the wealthy in northwest london. now, if the picture had been of the shawl near south harrow station or the windermere by south kenton station - why, that's a whole different ballgame

It's probably the most noticeable building on Harrow's High Street. Not the largest, but the eye is drawn to it being set back behind the well-manicured garden, so it invites you to guess its purpose. Someone unfamiliar with the area might easily assume it was where the school was centred, and anyone who has ever travelled along Harrow's High Street would probably recognise it. Likewise anyone has ever gone through Eton, which is very small, having only one through road, would realise that as the pictured building is evidently not a Tudor building, accommodation block or a modern addition, it must be somewhere else. You perhaps don't get out much from your central London bubble, but probably best not to assume that no one else passes by notable buildings on main thoroughfares elsewhere and might consequently recognise them.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's probably the most noticeable building on Harrow's High Street. Not the largest, but the eye is drawn to it being set back behind the well-manicured garden, so it invites you to guess its purpose. Someone unfamiliar with the area might easily assume it was where the school was centred, and anyone who has ever travelled along Harrow's High Street would probably recognise it. Likewise anyone has ever gone through Eton, which is very small, having only one through road, would realise that as the pictured building is evidently not a Tudor building, accommodation block or a modern addition, it must be somewhere else. You perhaps don't get out much from your central London bubble, but probably best not to assume that no one else passes by notable buildings on main thoroughfares elsewhere and might consequently recognise them.

You're making a lot of assumptions there about the level of telegraph readership in harrow

 

[stavros]

Woke Eton College has become a lost cause​

 

[danny la rouge]

Woke Eton College has become a lost cause​

Paywalled but the headline is great.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Paywalled but the headline is great.

I can see it (without paying!). The headline is the best bit but it does contain the somewhat bizarre fact that the Bufton-Tufton who wrote it is apparently great mates with George Galloway.

 

[danny la rouge]

I can see it (without paying!). The headline is the best bit but it does contain the somewhat bizarre fact that the Bufton-Tufton who wrote it is apparently great mates with George Galloway.

I must have exceeded a limit or something.

 

[JimW]

I must have exceeded a limit or something.

Well, they exceeded all limits of decency first.