Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[bemused]

Can't even take a quick look at the front page on my phone now without it auto playing that video/advert (which also switches full screen)

I think there should be special camps for people who put video adverts on websites. They should be forced to watch Owen Jones newsnight interviews 24/7.

 

[D'wards]

It's the sixth most read news website in the world. If they can make that pay (and it looks like they are on the verge of doing so, precisely through having their hand out), the paper sales in the UK are pretty irrelevant.

Why don't they just make it subscription and stop going on about it?

 

[bemused]

Why don't they just make it subscription and stop going on about it?

I don't know, I've given them a donation in the past - but you get fuck all for it so I didn't renew.

 

[killer b]

Why don't they just make it subscription and stop going on about it?

because they want to stay being one of the most read news websites in the world, and the current funding method appears to be working.

 

[killer b]

I don't know, I've given them a donation in the past - but you get fuck all for it so I didn't renew.

doesn't it at least remove the begging message?

 

[D'wards]

I don't know, I've given them a donation in the past - but you get fuck all for it so I didn't renew.

Come on - you get top-drawer fashion advice!

 

[bemused]

Come on - you get top-drawer fashion advice!

Darling, I'm glorious already.

 

[pinkychukkles]

Welcome to Powder Mountain – a utopian club for the millennial elite

Some amusing comments tinged with froth BTL.

 

[kabbes]

Plus its crossword is a bit rubbish.

I have revised my opinion on this 8 years later.

 

[Wilf]

If you want to eat out, you should fork out

Pay more for food you tight bastards.

Isn't that fucker Rayner a restaurant critic? The irony is he pays nothing at all for his scran.

 

[redsquirrel]

It's the sixth most read news website in the world. If they can make that pay (and it looks like they are on the verge of doing so, precisely through having their hand out), the paper sales in the UK are pretty irrelevant.

Yep, I can very much believe that the please fund us will work for them. Also works with the longer term strategy to become bigger in the US.

 

[bemused]

Isn't that fucker Rayner a restaurant critic? The irony is he pays nothing at all for his scran.

Guardian has overtaken the Daily Mail for the go-to place for middle-class whining.

 

[Pickman's model]

Guardian has overtaken the Daily Mail for the go-to place for middle-class whining.

The mail's been a distant also-ran for years now

 

[bemused]

The mail's been a distant also-ran for years now

Although they're number 1 for stories about sex offenders and upskirt shots of women on the same page. I think they'll never be toppled.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Owen Smith might have been an embarrassingly shit leadership candidate, but at least the Guardian still loves him: Owen Smith calls for public poll on final Brexit deal

 

[Pickman's model]

Owen Smith might have been an embarrassingly shit leadership candidate, but at least the Guardian still loves him: Owen Smith calls for public poll on final Brexit deal

cue ghost of brucie going 'owen, you're my favourite'

 

[killer b]

Owen Smith might have been an embarrassingly shit leadership candidate, but at least the Guardian still loves him: Owen Smith calls for public poll on final Brexit deal

...and he's now been sacked.

 

[Pickman's model]

...and he's now been sacked.

Sadly not with a kahr p45

 

[DotCommunist]

He shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary him, nor the years contemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember him.

 

[Rob Ray]

 

[stethoscope]

'If I can learn to love it so can anybody'
"On the BBC Radio 4 programme Chain Reaction, he stated that he considers himself a middle class Mancunian. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School, an independent school for boys in Manchester."

 

[andysays]

The feelings they evoke may be universal, but they're not unique to opera and nor, more importantly, is the experience of opera available on anything like a universal basis.

 

[kabbes]

To be fair, I’ve been to see opera for £20*. Only looking at the Royal Opera House is hardly going to show you the affordable end of the range.

*specifically this (fully professional) performance last year, which was great: Opera Holloway presents Così Fan Tutte - Sullington Tithe Barn - Sep 10

 

[Santino]

I believe that select performances are even shown at the kinema-house.

 

[Dom Traynor]

Liberals should work with the far right To save Hungary's liberal democracy, centrists must work with the far right | Cas Mudde

 

[petee]

the music!

 

[redsquirrel]

Liberals should work with the far right To save Hungary's liberal democracy, centrists must work with the far right | Cas Mudde

This prick's previous pieces marked him out as a cunt but this is just fucking amazing.

 

[butchersapron]

And he's the go to man for the liberals for light academic fluff on populism. Since trump his stuff has got
steadily worse. He used to do some decent stuff.

 

[SpookyFrank]

Liberals should work with the far right To save Hungary's liberal democracy, centrists must work with the far right | Cas Mudde

Someone beat me to it.

Next week in the guardian: how to cure cancer by giving yourself another, slightly different form of cancer.

 

[Pickman's model]

Liberals should work with the far right To save Hungary's liberal democracy, centrists must work with the far right | Cas Mudde

shurely 'muddle'