Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Def front page news here - haven't even got the excuse of chasing the yankee dollar on this
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Is that Women’s Equality Party item front page news? I mean I’m interested but I’m a geek...
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
It was for about 5 hours reg.
Dom Traynor
Tino Pai
Ta
eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Rob Ray
Weight is meaningless
Don't slate Kate, Duchess of Cambridge for her baby moan – she speaks for all of us | Zoe Williams
I think we can all relate to the hardships of having 24-7 servants catering to you and your heir-to-the-throne child's every whim in that giant grace and favour mansion wing you inhabit, having inherited the lot from a family so rich and powerful it wears an actual imperial crown.
I think we can all relate to the hardships of having 24-7 servants catering to you and your heir-to-the-throne child's every whim in that giant grace and favour mansion wing you inhabit, having inherited the lot from a family so rich and powerful it wears an actual imperial crown.
Idris2002
Stay Alive in '25
Do grace-and-favour people have any security of tenure? Or could they be evicted at will, according to the whim of a jaded monarch?
cantsin
Well-Known Member
sihhi
Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered
I am white. As an academic, consultant and writer on white racial identity and race relations, I speak daily with other white people about the meaning of race in our lives. ... Black friends have often told me that they prefer open hostility to niceness. They understand open hostility and can protect themselves as needed.
On race relations the other day.
On race relations the other day.
That's godawful even for the Guardian.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
New Russell Brand book is obviously ridiculous, based around Brands' admiration for his 15 (or sthn ) closest 'mentors' ( incl. " fellow recovering addicts, therapists, spiritual guides, a martial arts instructor, a comedian " - but doesn't include the nanny who looks after the sprogs who he last week admitted to not going near if he can help it ) - the reviewer knows it's ridiculous ( " But unlike Brand, you may not be able to maintain two therapists, an acupuncturist and a personal relationship with an Indian guru. Also, is Jordan Peterson really “irrefutably persuasive”? ) but still the review sub- leadline is " After several false starts, Brand’s worldview has become surprisingly mature... " and it's book of the day.
Farce.
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped by Russell Brand review – a grown-up guru
Farce.
Mentors: How to Help and Be Helped by Russell Brand review – a grown-up guru
ska invita
back on the other side
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The one quote that doesn’t sound like the Guardian picking junior Progress members:
She seems like the most realistic person in the article.
Admiral Fitz
Member
I give you our old friend, Sam Wollaston and his take on Cressida Dick's inability to smell dope. Christ, we all know how bad he is but this is really shit.
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eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
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eatmorecheese
He's fallen out of the car again
Total drivel. Must've taken him all of 15 minutes to crap it out
Admiral Fitz
Member
I would have taken a normal hack 15 minutes to crank out, but don't forget this is Wollaston. He probably spent most of a day 'crafting' it before submitting.
Admiral Fitz
Member
I know it's shooting fish in a barrel, but the woeful Hadley Freeman makes it too easy to resist.
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NoXion
his soul is marching on
What the fuck was even the point behind this article? I can't believe that someone actually got paid for writing that garbage.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
Freemans' (and Hyde's, + J Jones + Crace to a degree ) drift into "politics" feels v emblematic of the Grauns slide towards it's death throes over the last 5 yrs - super entitled, substance free, bourgie, #FBPE obsessed snarkism that masks what good sh*t Chakraborty, Jones, Younge + co manage to do
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The Pale King
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Yeah spot on. There seemed to be a sudden shift away from any notional expertise in an area (quiet at the back etc) to multifunctional, jack-of-all-trades pundits who apply their arch/ironic/exasperated style to any problem that may arise. The 'style' (thinking particularly of your Freemen and Hydes) seems to be a sort of superior, distant sarcasm that makes no moral commitments and crowbars in 80's/90's movies a lot.
cantsin
Well-Known Member
deffo, and whilst the ever worsening financial sitch over there / across the industry must play a part in all this, it's still the gaffa's decision to elevate these sneery, entitled Oxbridge centrists.... must admit, do quietly hope it f8ckin irritates the buggery out of them all every time they see a jonny come lately Blakely / Bastani / Walker / Sarkar / Pierce filling the various 'left slots' on all the politics/ current affairs slots across TV / Cable etc
The Pale King
Well-Known Member
Couldnae agree more! I think they have a lot of telling (displaced) rage on to the folk you mention.
oryx
Sitting on the bok of the day
You've pretty much summed up how I feel about the paper.
I think Crace effectively replaced Simon Hoggart as their political sketch writer, didn't he? I miss Hoggart as he was very funny. Can't stand Crace.
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