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

Elpenor said:
I may be weird, in fact almost certainly am, but I don’t understand how recycling can make anyone miserable
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Perhaps it's shame due to the contents of the boxes exposed to public gaze...
I would like to think the process makes people think about their impact on the planet....
 
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Elpenor said:
I may be weird, in fact almost certainly am, but I don’t understand how recycling can make anyone miserable
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It's one of the constant go-to column subjects of the modern right wing, they are always banging on about recycling and the "hassle" of being made to do it. They can usually stretch their alloted 750-words to cover public sector money wastage, climate scepticism, and general disgruntlement.
 
Telegraph writers for the last few decades: "Britain sends too much on arty farty nonsense in education" and "the yoof need to buckle down and get a real job" and "capitalism breeds innovation."

Also Telegraph writers:

Spotify Wrapped – the annual revelation of everybody’s personalised music streaming stats – has arrived, or ‘dropped’ as the current vernacular has it. These are the global figures for exactly who is listening to exactly what. There are no real surprises at the top of these charts for listeners in the UK – Taylor Swift, Drake, Kanye West, Billie Eilish and The Weeknd. Fine, but sad considering that we used to have a music industry in Britain that occasionally said something to us about our lives.
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How dare people checks notes like music. I'm 40 and I made one. A sample of the artists on my 2024 playlist:
- Sneaker Pimps
- Love
- Naomi
- Getatchew Mekuria and the Ex
- Cardiacs
- Space, natch
- Poppy
- Broadcast
- Nadine Shah
- The Offspring
- Stevie Wonder
- Imogen Heap
- Jesus Jones

Why is it narcissistic and preening to look back at the music you listened to a lot over the past year?
 
Serene said:

Where Ed Miliband is plotting to build one billion solar panels across Britain​

www.telegraph.co.uk

Where Ed Miliband is plotting to build one billion solar panels across Britain

Middle England will be worst hit under the Energy Secretary’s net zero blitz
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

Hopefully they will all be installed across the Cotswolds.
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The pointg really is that they should be installed across every roof, and every car park etc. But that is difficult for hedge funds to monetise.....
 
Telegraph headline ''Number of civilans killed in Gaza 'inflated to vilify Israel' ''


The study by the Henry Jackson Society, a think tank, claims the figures have been manipulated by the Hamas-run authorities in Gaza for propaganda purposes, with international media outlets happy to repeat them uncritically.
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The Henry Jackson Society is strongly associated with the virulently islamophobic views of Douglas Murray it's former associate director.

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The Telegraph really is ridiculous. I went on there to get an apple cake recipe I'd made years ago and I get greeted with articles about a long-awaited victory for the right and how universities are churning out brainless frauds. Meanwhile that fuckwit Zoe Strimpel thinks Badenoch is right and lunch breaks are lazy continental bullshit.
Who would have thought Kemi meant red meat quite so literally
Ms Badenoch is right that lunch is for wimps. Taking a lunch break is a classic hallmark of continental laziness and entitlement
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I'm willing to bet that all those 'lazy' and 'entitled' workers who take lunch breaks have worked harder than she's ever done in her whole life.
 
Because traditionally Christmas cards and newsletters focus on the negative aspects of life.

"In September I got horrendous constipation, which I finally got over last week, as shown in the photo top-right."
 
Alt text:

"Sam Ashworth-Hayes
Headline: The cult of small business must die
Large corporations play an outsized role in driving the economy"
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I won't quibble with that, but it needs to be paid for from something other than general taxation, and available to be, ahem, reinterpreted by anyone as they so wish.
 
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