Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[kebabking]

Can Glastonbury help me shed my toxic masculinity – and become a better man?

Fantastic.

 

[Irwin Winton]

Shocking.

Not quite sure you've got the idea of this thread, tbf

 

[Poi E]

Can Glastonbury help me shed my toxic masculinity – and become a better man?

Fantastic.

I'm all up for shedding some toxic masculinity with DMT but burning sage? Fuck that shit.

 

[DaveCinzano]

There's a proposition missing in the first paragraph and the second para is turgid.

Preposition?

 

[magneze]

Not quite sure you've got the idea of this thread, tbf

I see what you did there. Good one.

 

[andysays]

Preposition?

It is a Grauniad thread

 

[kebabking]

I'm all up for shedding some toxic masculinity with DMT but burning sage? Fuck that shit.

Can imagine the sheer pomposity and virtue signalling that would have inflated that tent?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Consumerism isn't a sellout - if capitalism works for all

Actually even worse than the title suggests - pretty amazing from beginning to end. The constant conflation of "consumerism" with "buying stuff" is good but predictable; I particularly liked the idea that problems are basically our fault for not being good enough consumers, though. That's a new one to me.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Consumerism isn't a sellout - if capitalism works for all

Actually even worse than the title suggests - pretty amazing from beginning to end. The constant conflation of "consumerism" with "buying stuff" is good but predictable; I particularly liked the idea that problems are basically our fault for not being good enough consumers, though. That's a new one to me.

This is a terrible piece and also isn't the author the shoe bomber

 

[elbows]

This is a terrible piece and also isn't the author the shoe bomber

Much worse than that.

Until 2012 Reeves was Director of Strategy to Deputy Prime Minister` Nick Clegg.[2] Previously he had been director of the London-based think tank Demos. Reeves has held positions including Director of Futures at The Work Foundation, a British non-profit organisation, Society Editor of The Observer, Economics Correspondent and Washington Correspondent of The Guardian, and policy adviser to Frank Field when he was Minister for Welfare Reform.

Richard Reeves (British author) - Wikipedia

 

[Proper Tidy]

Much worse than that.



Richard Reeves (British author) - Wikipedia

Would happily Guantanamo him

 

[8ball]

Consumerism isn't a sellout - if capitalism works for all

Actually even worse than the title suggests - pretty amazing from beginning to end. The constant conflation of "consumerism" with "buying stuff" is good but predictable; I particularly liked the idea that problems are basically our fault for not being good enough consumers, though. That's a new one to me.

Not sure I agree with you there.
I think it's pretty much *exactly* as bad as the title suggests, and appreciate the titular honesty shown by the Graun on this occasion.

 

[8ball]

Richard Reeves (British author) - Wikipedia

That pic...
There's a severed head in his fridge.

 

[kabbes]

That’s awful and shows the author’s total lack of understanding of (a) what consumerism is and (b) why it is problematic. He even tries to discuss the objections and yet somehow misses all the actual proper objections

 

[Rob Ray]

Africans breeding too fast is why we can't have nice things, Observer "science" and environment editor Robin McKee opines in amongst a bunch of platitudes to make it clear he definitely isn't being racist and obviously there's other reasons too. But y'know, Africans:

Global population of eight billion and growing: we can’t go on like this

 

[equationgirl]

Is it ethical for a woman to date a man for a free dinner? Only if they’re very upfront | Arwa Mahdawi

It literally says nothing that can’t be summarised in that heading. No discussion, no context, no history, no analysis. Just a few hundred words saying that thing.

I know we're heading into silly season but that's a load of shite even by their standards.

 

[Brainaddict]

Obviously d'Ancona regularly curls out a turd in the pages of the guardian, but this impassioned plea for a return to the 'centrism' that fucked us into horrendous inequality has everything you could possibly want:

Labour could dominate the centre ground and win. But it doesn’t seem to want to | Matthew d’Ancona

“Centrist” is now second only to “fascist” in the left’s lexicon of hate.

 

[DotCommunist]

liberal fantasy cabinet stuff again from the guardians pet tory

how easy it would be to construct a pretty decent cabinet from Labour’s backbenches: Jess Phillips, Seema Malhotra, Owen Smith, Stephen Kinnock, Gloria De Piero, Angela Eagle and David Lammy for a start. Then add in a handful of existing frontbenchers – Tom Watson, Keir Starmer

OWEN SMITH EVERYBODY.

 

[Brainaddict]

It's so good. He namechecks Tony Blair. He assumes all voters are like his friends. He dreams of Owen Smith. I clicked on it expecting to be annoyed but in fact I just laughed.

 

[xenon]

Owen what's a cappuccino Smith is still a thing for some peple? LOL.

 

[xenon]

Can Glastonbury help me shed my toxic masculinity – and become a better man?

Fantastic.

"As the panel moves on to talking about the dangers of preaching only to the converted, two young men stagger in and ask: “What’s this?”

“Positive masculinity workshop,” I say and pat the vacant space on the sofa beside me. “Shite,” says one of them and they head back"

 

[xenon]

Oh and

"When I get back to my tent later, it is dark and there is a woman face down on the grass outside. “Just leave me,” she says, “I’ll be fine.” “You’re fine now,” I say, “but you’ll be cold in a while. Let me take you back to your tent.” Eventually, she gets up and I help her find her way through the night.
Isn't she thinking won't this creep just fuck off.

 

[kabbes]

Obviously d'Ancona regularly curls out a turd in the pages of the guardian, but this impassioned plea for a return to the 'centrism' that fucked us into horrendous inequality has everything you could possibly want:

Labour could dominate the centre ground and win. But it doesn’t seem to want to | Matthew d’Ancona

I now think that Corbyn’s undoing was his undoubted success in the 2017 general election

Lolllol

 

[TopCat]

Lolllol

It was a new low.

 

[Ming]

Obviously d'Ancona regularly curls out a turd in the pages of the guardian, but this impassioned plea for a return to the 'centrism' that fucked us into horrendous inequality has everything you could possibly want:

Labour could dominate the centre ground and win. But it doesn’t seem to want to | Matthew d’Ancona

I don’t know what the former editor of The Spectator is doing writing for The Guardian anyway.

 

[flypanam]

I don’t know what the former editor of The Spectator is doing writing for The Guardian anyway.

The trust doing it's usual thing of pretending to represent all views no matter what. It's like them saying, 'look how radically moderate we are, we have all sorts writing for us, we are the centre' never mind that the only voice they magnify is that of the right of centre in the first place.

AND

Because he's shit, he's cheap too.

 

[Poi E]

How to wash your hair

But how do I use the knobs on the sink to get water?

 

[Sue]

Because he's shit, he's cheap too.

Going by that logic, Polly'd be paying them...

 

[Sue]

How to wash your hair

But how do I use the knobs on the sink to get water?

Next week's article thattaway.

 

[equationgirl]

How to wash your hair

But how do I use the knobs on the sink to get water?

Utter utter bollocks.

Yes, I know, guardian etc, but takes no account of hair type other than a vague mention of afro hair towards the end, water softness/hardness and so on. To think people get paid for writing such tripe.