Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[DaveCinzano]

Slipknot puff piece.

I was really hoping that the author was the MI6-touting-son-of-the-ex-Chancellor Dom Lawson... But no

 

[brogdale]

What are you on about?

E 20 = the north. Geddit?

 

[killer b]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jan/20/page-3-censorship-sun-sex-sells

Men’s bodies are now as “objectified” as women’s, on editorial pages and advertisements alike.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Men’s bodies are now as “objectified” as women’s, on editorial pages and advertisements alike.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Oh Stephen Moss...

“...A Greek anarchist friend of mine...”

http://www.theguardian.com/artandde...osters-london-bus-tube-police-strike-magazine

 

[butchersapron]

See also:

They prefer not to describe themselves as an anarchist publication

So Moss says:

We pick up the trail at an anarchist magazine

...reads the buzzer outside the HQ of the anarchist magazine Strike!

 

[Orang Utan]

Am enjoying the comments section. I need to read up on the Spanish Civil War.

 

[butchersapron]

Am enjoying the comments section. I need to read up on the Spanish Civil War.

You've got to call it the Spanish revolution if you're going to be an anarchist.

 

[Orang Utan]

You've got to call it the Spanish revolution if you're going to be an anarchist.

Noted

 

[Orang Utan]

Got any book recommendations then, butchersapron ?

 

[butchersapron]

Got any book recommendations then, butchersapron ?

A few! Still say that the Beevor book is the best basic intro to the historical context, the international issues, the internal issues, the internal factions, the competing ideologies and strategies etc and a great guide to further exploration. And Homage to Catalonia for how one person experienced all this and what options it opened up and also closed.

Beevor's updated version here

 

[Orang Utan]

A few! Still say that the Beevor book is the best basic intro to the historical context, the international issues, the internal issues, the internal factions, the competing ideologies and strategies etc and a great guide to further exploration. And Homage to Catalonia for how one person experienced all this and what options it opened up and also closed.

Beevor's updated version here

Thanks!

 

[JTG]

Beevor seconded, good read, easy to follow

 

[Blagsta]

Abel Paz's biography of Durutti I thought was good for lots of historical background

 

[brogdale]

Again this is 'real'...apparently...

Spoiler: n really sfw

Wait for spring, maybe?

 

[DotCommunist]

nobody is going to walk around with thier bellend hanging out These people are mad

 

[phildwyer]

nobody is going to walk around with thier bellend hanging out These people are mad

It's always like that at fashion shows though. They wear stuff on the catwalk that no-one would or even could wear irl. I don't see the point personally.

 

[DaveCinzano]

nobody is going to walk around with thier bellend hanging out

Beg to differ

 

[brogdale]

Beg to differ

 

[el-ahrairah]

doing for the polo shirt what hitler did for jackboots.

 

[killer b]

It's always like that at fashion shows though. They wear stuff on the catwalk that no-one would or even could wear irl. I don't see the point personally.

It's art innit.

 

[phildwyer]

It's art innit.

Decadence I call it.

 

[killer b]

That too.

 

[DotCommunist]

art is a cold bellend

 

[belboid]

Readers Songs About Secrecy

A perfectly reasonable column, and a perfectly reasonable subject. So reasonable, that they already did it, two and a half years ago.

 

[DotCommunist]

It's always like that at fashion shows though. They wear stuff on the catwalk that no-one would or even could wear irl. I don't see the point personally.

yeah, while they are done out like a dadaist cake topping, some of the aspects of catwalk design do filter down to normal people clothing

I don't see the exposed glans look as likely to filter down

 

[killer b]

Doesn't really matter does it? The designer made all the papers. Job done.

 

[DotCommunist]

if I went around with my nob out I'd make the papers for an entirely different reason It's one rule for them

 

[ViolentPanda]

doing for the polo shirt what hitler did for jackboots.

At least the bellend hasn't popped his collar.

 

[Kaka Tim]

Nauseating Editorial - note, not an individual comment piece but the offical view of the newspaper - on the death of King fuckface of saud.

"a skillful manager ... not a bad man"

http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...audi-arabia-king-abdullah-death?commentpage=1