Rhik Samadder's columns are usually good, otherwise +1
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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hitmouse
music obfuscation technology
The question about her students feels a bit like a classic "so, would you like to slag [x group] off now?" invitation as well.I thought I got it from this thread but in retrospect it was from elsewhere. Interview a feminist academic but obviously as soon as she says anything non-Guardian-PC, it's "crikey" and she's been "drinking the Kool-Aid that is Judith Butler, high priestess of gender theory", make your excuses and leave, and apparently you can only deal with the "pedagogic brain ache" via "a very large bar of chocolate".
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria - and why her students are no snowflakeswww.theguardian.com
Monkeygrinder's Organ
Dodgy geezer swilling vapid lager
I thought I got it from this thread but in retrospect it was from elsewhere. Interview a feminist academic but obviously as soon as she says anything non-Guardian-PC, it's "crikey" and she's been "drinking the Kool-Aid that is Judith Butler, high priestess of gender theory", make your excuses and leave, and apparently you can only deal with the "pedagogic brain ache" via "a very large bar of chocolate".
Amia Srinivasan: ‘Sex as a subject isn’t weird. It’s very, very serious’
With her debut book, The Right to Sex, a 36-year-old Oxford don is dazzling everyone. She discusses porn, gender dysphoria - and why her students are no snowflakes
I think the worst bit about that isn't so much that stupid tone, it's more the way a statement about some trans-exclusive lesbians is apparently a statement about all lesbians. Pretty snidey tbh.
Brainaddict
slight system overdrive
It's actually quite a transparent lie isn't it, and hopefully most people can see it. She was not generalising about all lesbians. I just had a look at her twitter feed to see if she responded but it seems she decided to rise above it and just didn't tweet out the article as she does with other major articles she's featured in.
I would say her suggestion about why some cis lesbians become terfs is quite speculative (unless she's using research she's not citing) and many interviewers might choose to challenge it on those grounds. But just lying about what she said in the next paragraph is quite amazing.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
Yeah, it’s the fact of the direct quote which so obviously didn’t say what she says a mere sentence later. Does she think we’re fucking thick?
Gasmantell
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lazythursday said:
When I worked at the Guardian (non journo role) way back in the 90s it was really common to find that the graduate trainees or various junior staff were related to some long standing Guardian writer. I doubt much has changed. Journalism is rife with nepotism. I don't think it's a good look for the editor to employ her boyfriend but I don't think it's as bad as the way a small section of upper middle class people have a stranglehold on much of journalism. At least Chiles has some existing experience/celebrity/notoriety and is not from north London. "
it is worth noting though that the Guardian Media Group (owners of the paper) have commented on the behaviour of their editor in the last two annual reports - possibly because tshe clearly has conflict of interest and is abusing her position on the worthless (imo) writer man-Chiles.
Why not spend that money on investigative journalism that may uphold the fine principles the Guardian is meant to support?
Also, just because he's a 'name' is no guarantee that he has anything worth saying - he's a football reporter and magazine show host, not Hunter S Thompson...
PS My wife worked at the Observer (non journo role) in the 70's which only goes to show - well, nothing really...
lazythursday said:
When I worked at the Guardian (non journo role) way back in the 90s it was really common to find that the graduate trainees or various junior staff were related to some long standing Guardian writer. I doubt much has changed. Journalism is rife with nepotism. I don't think it's a good look for the editor to employ her boyfriend but I don't think it's as bad as the way a small section of upper middle class people have a stranglehold on much of journalism. At least Chiles has some existing experience/celebrity/notoriety and is not from north London. "
it is worth noting though that the Guardian Media Group (owners of the paper) have commented on the behaviour of their editor in the last two annual reports - possibly because tshe clearly has conflict of interest and is abusing her position on the worthless (imo) writer man-Chiles.
Why not spend that money on investigative journalism that may uphold the fine principles the Guardian is meant to support?
Also, just because he's a 'name' is no guarantee that he has anything worth saying - he's a football reporter and magazine show host, not Hunter S Thompson...
PS My wife worked at the Observer (non journo role) in the 70's which only goes to show - well, nothing really...
Elpenor
Dancing as fast as I can
Agree it is a bit of an open goal.
I hate everyone interviewed in this piece.
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‘Inheritance is a problem’: parents on what they will leave to their children
Following Daniel Craig’s remarks that he will spend his money or give it away, we asked readers what their plans are
Quite a few of them weren’t actually as bad as I was expecting. E.g.I hate everyone interviewed in this piece.
‘Inheritance is a problem’: parents on what they will leave to their children
Following Daniel Craig’s remarks that he will spend his money or give it away, we asked readers what their plans are
I mean, I can criticise the bourgeois assumptions inherent in that statement but I don’t hate the person.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
None of them seem unusually awful people; they want to pass things on to their children. That's pretty standard. It's the fact that they're unusually rich and can pass on a lot more than average which is the problem. Their kids could be my next landlord.
My point is that a lot/some of them don’t want to pass on anything to their children
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
‘The hypocrisy is nauseating’: Wes Streeting on state school arts cuts
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Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Some of the most nauseatingly flagrant mutual apple-polishing the Graun has ever published. Pass the sick bag.
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‘Parts of my brain light up when he’s talking’: Nigella Lawson and Mark Cousins in conversation
The cook and the film-maker, who struck up a friendship on Twitter, discuss aesthetics, watching and being watched, and the benefits of ageing
UrbaneFox
They've doubled in price
Help me, Urbanites. Which one do you think I should go for? Recycled Anya Hindmarsh £125, Lowe £175, Paul Smith £125, Merlot £90, Aspers £70 or the budget option at £34?
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Play your cards: 12 stylish card holders for contactless payments – in pictures
Tap and go with a sleek card holder in punchy red or shiny silver pineapple leather
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Jeff Robinson
Marxist-Lentilist: Jackboots and Jackfruit
Jesus F Christ:
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‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland
He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?
These are wallets aren't they? I don't think it's a massive surprise that they come in a range of prices.Help me, Urbanites. Which one do you think I should go for? Recycled Anya Hindmarsh £125, Lowe £175, Paul Smith £125, Merlot £90, Aspers £70 or the budget option at £34?
Play your cards: 12 stylish card holders for contactless payments – in pictures
Tap and go with a sleek card holder in punchy red or shiny silver pineapple leather
Steel Icarus
ersatz maven
That is all kinds of wrong and terribleJesus F Christ:
‘The smartest person in any room anywhere’: in defence of Elon Musk, by Douglas Coupland
He’s the Silicon Valley Übermensch who wants us to colonise Mars and who can wipe out billions of dollars with a single tweet. So what’s not to love?
Sure there is - everyone else has google and can find cheaper, uglier versions of more or less everything in the world too, if they want to.
So an average price of over £100 for a card holder represents what? Good value? The typical reader?
I'm not sure what a wallet should cost tbh. If it was made of high quality materials by skilled craftspeople on decent wages, probably a lot more than £10. TBF looking at the things they've listed there, many of them probably aren't - but regardless, value for money does not = cheap, and plenty of people prioritise spending more money on high quality items that look nice and will last over cheap items that don look nice, and will probably fall apart next year.
strung out
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It's just the usual kind of content you've been getting in fashion supplements of newspapers for years isn't it?
I had a look through the more expensive ones - the Paul Smith is made in Italy, the Lowe one in Spain, the Tusting one in the UK. So, no.
Kevbad the Bad
Amiable Bowel Syndrome
I've recently discovered that I've got pockets in my trousers, so I've just saved myself loads of money.
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