Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[oryx]

Yes, Jeremy Corbyn is still here and he’s still right about everything | Barbara Ellen

It’s time for the Labour leader to exit gracefully, but there’s little chance of that

www.theguardian.com

This but unironically.

That is class! (not).

Even worse is the cringingly unaware piece below it about working from home. Talk about a middle-class bubble, where everyone is an 'office worker' and can work from home.

I'd take working from home any day over getting up at six to pile onto a crowded train/bus etc. and work a long shift outdoors or similar.

 

[billy_bob]

Non-stop? I'm not surprised he had a heart attack.

 

[hash tag]

“Sound of thunder (4)” twice? but with two different answers that each couldn’t fit in each other’s crossing letters. so that’s legitimate

Spoiler

gordon ramsey

 

[Brainaddict]

Another entry for 'the guardian gushing over Tories on the flimsiest of grounds' Words I thought I'd never write: thank God for Matt Hancock | John Crace

He forgave some fictional debt that the government owed to itself! What a hero!!

Instead of: they should all be hung from lampposts for ever having pretended the NHS was in debt to the government.

 

[Indeliblelink]

We can't raise a mortgage against our £1.25m home for our holiday let barn

We need £50,000 for a second bathroom but mention ‘holiday let’ and lenders just shy away

www.theguardian.com

 

[billy_bob]

Our new lockdown game: judging famous people by their bookshelves

They almost had me here - I love a deeks at other people's bookshelves, and I caught myself thinking I bet Kate Middleton hasn't read more than a quarter of those... but then, is this just the intellectual version of the old school tie?

 

[Serge Forward]

This reminds me, Flann O'Brien did something on bookshelves and "bookhandling" Cruiskeen Lawn November 10th, 1941

 

[scifisam]

Our new lockdown game: judging famous people by their bookshelves

They almost had me here - I love a deeks at other people's bookshelves, and I caught myself thinking I bet Kate Middleton hasn't read more than a quarter of those... but then, is this just the intellectual version of the old school tie?

Raab's is amusing - he didn't have a home office already set up with political tomes on shelves to impress visitors? Poor planning! What a surprise...

The others may well be genuine. Rishi Sunak played a blinder by looking like a normal person working from home.

I'm not going to bother to look up Kate Middleton's A levels but, she got into a good uni based on her grades, and loads of people have read those classics - they're standard posh girl reading material but also what lots of non-posh people read. They might have had to hide Fifty Shades of Gray but that probably wasn't in her public office anyway.

My zoom chats with friends have mostly shown how their pets behave. Some of their cats are fucking enormous!

 

[ska invita]

Guardian lead non-Corona headline on the website: the promotion of some lets cut pensions because response to C19 is "expensive" pure economic ideology paper from a random thinktank

Coronavirus UK: call to scrap 'triple lock' on pensions after crisis

All generations should have to help pay for massive economic cost, says thinktank

www.theguardian.com

though by making it their lead story i guess it gives a clue to the avalanche of "paying it back" austerity that will definitely be coming our way

 

[SpookyFrank]

Why does Kate Middleton need an office?

 

[The39thStep]

Guardian lead non-Corona headline on the website: the promotion of some lets cut pensions because response to C19 is "expensive" pure economic ideology paper from a random thinktank

Coronavirus UK: call to scrap 'triple lock' on pensions after crisis

All generations should have to help pay for massive economic cost, says thinktank

www.theguardian.com

though by making it their lead story i guess it gives a clue to the avalanche of "paying it back" austerity that will definitely be coming our way

Will be popular with some posters on here I imgaine

 

[Marty1]

For many in precarious "employment"faced with exposure to the virus, selflessness and sacrifice will be an inevitable function of their status.

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Drivers are meant to self report if they have a fever - Amazon are shortly introducing this to their delivery app before you take a route out. If you report that you have a temp over 37.5°C then you can’t work for 2 weeks (to self isolate) - and get zero pay.

I’m fine and think I may have already had coronavirus but it’s pretty clear to see that the possibility of drivers potentially not reporting any high temp they may have for fear of going broke.

Edit: on the plus side - a customer gave me an Easter egg on Saturday

 

[two sheds]

Will be popular with some posters on here I imgaine

Well comparing pension to dole and sickness benefit for example I can understand why hitting pensions might be popular. Not that I want to see it done of course - they should be taxing the millionaires and particularly hedge funds who've made billions profiteering from all this.

 

[brogdale]

Will be popular with some posters on here I imgaine

This sort of right-wing think-wankery is precisely why Labour need to be combative and proactive now. Unfortunately they are putting up tory apologists like Reeves & Kendall.

 

[Cerv]

Guardian lead non-Corona headline on the website: the promotion of some lets cut pensions because response to C19 is "expensive" pure economic ideology paper from a random thinktank

Coronavirus UK: call to scrap 'triple lock' on pensions after crisis

All generations should have to help pay for massive economic cost, says thinktank

www.theguardian.com

though by making it their lead story i guess it gives a clue to the avalanche of "paying it back" austerity that will definitely be coming our way

not even proposing a cut. just to remove the 2.5% floor on pension increases each year. so they would still increase by the higher of CPI inflation / average wage increase, but not more than that if both are below 2.5

a bit half arsed really for right wing economic wank really

and this exact replacement of the triple lock with a double lock was already proposed back when May & Hammond were in charge, but never went through.
interesting to see the idea rearing its head again. never let a good crisis go to waste I guess

 

[brogdale]

not even proposing a cut. just to remove the 2.5% floor on pension increases each year. so they would still increase by the higher of CPI inflation / average wage increase, but not more than that if both are below 2.5

a bit half arsed really for right wing economic wank really

and this exact replacement of the triple lock with a double lock was already proposed back when May & Hammond were in charge, but never went through.
interesting to see the idea rearing its head again. never let a good crisis go to waste I guess

It's more the narrative of the rona giving the cunts a 'justification' for never ending austerity, really.

 

[Pickman's model]

It's more the narrative of the rona giving the cunts a 'justification' for never ending austerity, really.

i'm told there is a video of boris johnson and dominic cummings dancing drunkenly in 10 downing street singing 'help me rona' to the tune of the the beach boys' help me rhonda, describing the things the current situation will let them get away with, and falling about laughing

 

[Raheem]

Why does Kate Middleton need an office?

In order to justify the cost of an office.

 

[little_legs]

This has to be the worst thing I've seen today

 

[8115]

This has to be the worst thing I've seen today

Yeah, I did think, The Telegraph has many vices, but at least this isn't one of them.

 

[equationgirl]

This has to be the worst thing I've seen today

I bet they thought it was hysterical though.

 

[frogwoman]

This has to be the worst thing I've seen today

His shit eating grin makes it.

 

[D'wards]

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing | Simon Jenkins

Let’s liberate the countryside, playgrounds and pub gardens, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

 

[Proper Tidy]

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing | Simon Jenkins

Let’s liberate the countryside, playgrounds and pub gardens, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

Jesus that's a shit piece. I gave up after the 'it mainly kills old people' stuff. He thinks we should focus on 'areas where infection is most likely' which apparently doesn't include kids playgrounds fucks sake. Wetting himself he can't go to a museum for a couple of months, guardian cunt

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Home schooling is tough, but parents are doing a fraction of teachers' jobs | Barbara Ellen

www.theguardian.com

The tone and premise of this piece doesn't sit well with me. Both teaching and parenting is hard work and teachers are only working as hard as they are because of all the extra unnecessary shit they are getting from the government. Also, schools indoctrinate kids some of the time, it's not always great 'education'.

 

[scifisam]

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing

Why can I visit a DIY shop but not a museum? This total lockdown is failing | Simon Jenkins

Let’s liberate the countryside, playgrounds and pub gardens, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

www.theguardian.com

I gave up when it got factually incorrect for the sake of making a point:

Why are people trusted to “socially distance” in a DIY shop but not in a garden centre or a National Trust park? My local hardware store can sell from its front door, but not my local pub.

Most DIY shops are shut, and some garden centres are open. Pubs can sell from their front doors, it's just not economically viable for most of them to try to do so.

 

[oryx]

He also seems to have missed that there are plenty of people who are not old - from teenagers to those in late middle age - who are dying.

Also that public transport and supermarkets are necessities, whereas museums and pub gardens are not.

 

[butchersapron]

Johnson: doctors had a 'death of Stalin' scenario

Using characteristic language, Boris Johnson has described a strategy that evolved for a period of time around plans to announce his potential death from Covid-19 as a “death of Stalin-type scenario.”

It’s not entirely clear if he was taking his cue from Armando Iannucci’s (excellent) 2017 satire.

Or, you know, the actual death of Stalin.

 

[DaveCinzano]

That seems to cover all bases

 

[belboid]

Tim Bray was an Amazon vp till he quit over whistleblowing, and published a piece on his blog. Then this happened.

Funnily enough the guardian piece has gone now