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Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

May it please The Citizens to know that the tawdry rag, The Guardian, is inviting readers to send in their tributes and memories on their online form. No mention of a prize. I would suggest Peterloo by Poole and Polyp. The Peterloo Massacre being of the time the rag was formed - as they are proud to boast. Such short memories...

Have a pleasant weekend.

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The first thirteen pages of today's issue are on the subject of, "Old man dies".

Whilst the Independent went rapidly downhill once Lord Two Beards bought it, they did nonetheless stick to their mantra of not giving a fuck about the Windsors. I wish the Graun would do similar, as it can't just be the majority of Urban who regard them as at best inconsequential.
 
I wish the Graun would do similar, as it can't just be the majority of Urban who regard them as at best inconsequential.
I don't think they're inconsequential.
How much real power does the Queen have?
well obviously shape shifting is the big one but she can also dislocate her jaw and swallow her prey whole
 
they do seem to have shifted.

one royal thing (possibly william's wedding or maybe the jubilee or something) the front page of the guardian website had a link you could click to make all the royal stuff disappear completely
 
what pisses me off is all of the Australian content

There's fucking loads of it isn't there, NZ too. I get the feeling they use it as a buffer to fill up the gaps when there's nothing particularly interesting to say, and this lot down under are churning out article on whatever they feel like, without any need for uk correspondents to actually be there, while there is painfully little news regarding some of the more "important" parts of the world: India, Russia (except in relation to the West), non-English speaking Africa (unless there is some violence, phwoar), Mexico, etc
 
“Rosebud Alpacas in Devon offers alpaca yoga, alpaca gong baths, alpaca tai chi, alpaca reiki and alpaca camping”
For a moment I thought Rosebud Alpacas was going to be the name of the columnist.
what pisses me off is all of the Australian content
To be fair to Australian Guardian stuff, it was an Australian Guardian writer who gave us the single greatest Guardian moment ever.
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Anyway, about a week old now, but this Guardian article on trade unions had some real gems:
The new Unison leader, Christina McAnea, rightly accused McCluskey of “indulgence” this week after his criticism of Starmer. But Unison, like Unite, does not often have much to say about how unions can improve wealth creation either...

Imagine, post-pandemic, if a British political leader was to make the world of dignified work the backbone of an ethical appeal for a national fair deal crossing economic class and geographic divides. It could even happen under the Conservatives. Indeed it almost did so under Theresa May, when she began highlighting the failures of management and the case for employee empowerment in 2017.
I can't decide what's more upsetting, Unison's failure to contribute more to wealth creation, or the fact that Theresa May never got to put her grand plan to empower the working class into action. :(
 
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