Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Proper Tidy]

Not quite sure about that, given that he talks about "the poorest communities", which I took to be referring to the famous Labour Heartlands - but that interpretation would make it even more barking, given that the number of remain Tories who would ever vote Labour is basically "ones who ticked the wrong box".

Yeah but he means some make believe pro remain working class who voted tory despite brexit because corbyn

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Yeah but he means some make believe pro remain working class who voted tory despite brexit because corbyn

All these new levels of bullshit that I hadn't even considered. Wonderful how the Guardian is expanding my mind. (Well technically it's the Observer today, which is their excuse for going massively right wing every Sunday.)

 

[Indeliblelink]

Got this just now when trying to read something. You only have to click the Not Now to dismiss it.
A sign that in the future they're going to make registering compulsory for reading some articles?

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Got this just now when trying to read something. You only have to click the Not Now to dismiss it.
A sign that in the future they're going to make registering compulsory for reading some articles?
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press "not now" and it goes away

 

[stavros]

Got this just now when trying to read something. You only have to click the Not Now to dismiss it.
A sign that in the future they're going to make registering compulsory for reading some articles?
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From what I've read they're haemorrhaging money, which I think is the case for most of printed press. At a guess I'd reckon the only paper website that might make any profit would be the Mail, with its sidebar of shame. The FT might as well, although that's a specialist paper.

Does anyone know how the Times and Telegraph have got on financially since introducing paywalls?

 

[mauvais]

I think the Graun is breaking even again these days - "remarkable turnaround" and all that.

 

[mauvais]

Also you lot missed this gem:

2019 wasn't global protests and Fleabag: it was the year a climate truth bomb dropped | Brigid Delaney

2019 is the year of suddenly. Many of us were shaken awake from our cognitive dissonance this year as our weather patterns and climate conditions become ever more extreme. When wine turns to ash in your mouth, you can’t deny the new reality anymore.

 

[19sixtysix]

I used to buy it most days but as it became more middle class blairite wank fest i felt less inclined to buy especially as buying got you nothing more than was on the web site. Now I use it with privacy blocker in place.

 

[Sue]

Posted (whatever the rights or wrongs of the situation) because the headline made me .

Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono

 

[emanymton]

Posted (whatever the rights or wrongs of the situation) because the headline made me .

Prominent lawyer Jolyon Maugham clubs fox to death while wearing kimono

I am trying to work out why 'man kills fox' is worthy of the national press. I imagine it is purely because it was talked about on Twitter.

 

[brogdale]

I am trying to work out why 'man kills fox' is worthy of the national press. I imagine it is purely because it was talked about on Twitter.

More like the Boxing Day news desert...obvs not enough tragic house fires this year.

 

[Sue]

I am trying to work out why 'man kills fox' is worthy of the national press. I imagine it is purely because it was talked about on Twitter.

Think it's the kimono tbh...

 

[JimW]

If it had been an M&S bathrobe he could have done a whole petting zoo and it wouldn't have made the local freesheet.

 

[DotCommunist]

its because he gained prominence with a load of one weird tricks in court to stop brexit.

 

[rekil]

Also you lot missed this gem:

2019 wasn't global protests and Fleabag: it was the year a climate truth bomb dropped | Brigid Delaney

Delaney is a distillation of every stream of bourgeois vapidity.

I'm supposed to be a mentor but I am jealous of his perfect chakras | Brigid Delaney

Doshas are the three energies that define every person’s makeup and, according to ayurvedic medicine, everyone has a dominant one.

“You cannot leave India without trying the region’s traditional medicine! You need to discover your dosha before you depart,” I advised. And because I was Safi’s mentor in Sydney, he took me seriously.

On the internet I found an ayurvedic healer, Annie, who advised us that the first step was to get our chakras in order. I went first. Annie scanned my chakras by moving her hands about 4cm away from my (clothed) body. The reading took a lot out of her. She huffed and strained and panted above me. I was very depleted, she said. My levels were all over the place. “There’s fear there, and rejection.” My personal vibe was low.

Automatically, I ran a mental program through all the fear and rejection I had experienced in my life, an unpleasant process no doubt further damaging my chakras.

 

[emanymton]

More like the Boxing Day news desert...obvs not enough tragic house fires this year.

Thing is if it wasn't for Twitter it would not have even been on their radar.

 

[brogdale]

Thing is if it wasn't for Twitter it would not have even been on their radar.

Like a good deal of their "journalistic" output.

 

[Rob Ray]

Giving Watson a front page to complain about Labour becoming too internally brutal ... got to hand it to the man, he's one shameless fucker.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Giving Watson a front page to complain about Labour becoming too internally brutal ... got to hand it to the man, he's one shameless fucker.

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Fair play to him really, the smelliest person in the room complaining about the bad odour, fair fucks.

Sub-header also intriguing. Admits. Absolutely shocking admission, a bolt from the blue that.

 

[not-bono-ever]

 

[eatmorecheese]

Missed this one:

Community spirit helped turn our coach house into a haven for a refugee family

Not taking away from what they did, but this is peak middle class Guardian. I enjoyed the line about the Aga

 

[Fez909]

We’re nearly all vegan now. But let’s still honour the original radicals | Barbara Ellen

For people such as sacked charity worker Jordi Casamitjana, veganism is a real belief, not a diet fad

www.theguardian.com

1% = nearly all in Guardian-land

 

[two sheds]

A month of meaningful conversation: my quest to befriend a new person every day

Chatty cafes, benches, badges – there are countless schemes encouraging us to talk to strangers and escape loneliness. But do any of them really work? I spent 30 days finding out

www.theguardian.com

my quest to befriend a new person every day

no, just fuck off

 

[sunnysidedown]

 

[DaveCinzano]

 

[gosub]

Why is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?

Gwyneth has made a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina for her website, Goop. And, of course, it has sold out

www.theguardian.com

 

[Poi E]

Grief over death of Young Liberal Wilson Gavin after drag queen protest

President of University of Queensland’s Liberal National Club, who was a staunch conservative and gay, died a day after disrupting a library storytime event

www.theguardian.com

This guy and his mates stormed into and disrupted a children's story reading, held by some people in drag, leaving kids in tears. Grief? Nah.

 

[Pickman's model]

Why is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?

Gwyneth has made a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina for her website, Goop. And, of course, it has sold out

www.theguardian.com

gp has become increasingly loopy over the years. maybe she's a canny businesswoman. but she's a fucking 'loon.

 

[Artaxerxes]

Why is Gwyneth Paltrow selling a candle that smells like her vagina?

Gwyneth has made a candle called This Smells Like My Vagina for her website, Goop. And, of course, it has sold out

www.theguardian.com

I have questions as to how they designed the olfactory essence.


Did they do samples or did Gwyneth tell them what to go for?

 

[gosub]

I have questions as to how they designed the olfactory essence.


Did they do samples or did Gwyneth tell them what to go for?

I neither know nor care just hope they start turning up at Coldplay gigs