Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Dystopiary]

That article's written by a guy who was literally a PR man for Putin.

 

[ska invita]

That article's written by a guy who was literally a PR man for Putin.

On the BBC payroll - aka Bolshevik broadcasting corporation! Amirite?

 

[Dystopiary]

On the BBC payroll - aka Bolshevik broadcasting corporation! Amirite?

I'm not referring to him being the Beeb's Moscow correspondent, which he was. He also worked for Putin, like, literally.

 

[ska invita]

I'm not referring to him being the Beeb's Moscow correspondent, which he was. He also worked for Putin, like, literally.

ah i missed that bit - you're right. here's his explanation:

Why I worked for the Kremlin - and what it's like meeting Putin

Angus Roxburgh signed up to work for Vladimir Putin's Kremlin after leaving journalism. He explains why and what Russia's leader is like

inews.co.uk

 

[planetgeli]

This smells like a pile of poo designed to sell papers/clickbait

It smells like sex out there – and we seem determined to ignore it | Nell Frizzell

Whether you are waiting at the bus stop or outside Lidl, the spring scent hangs heavy in the air, says Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic Years

www.theguardian.com

First time I've seen someone btl get 600 votes for just saying this is a pile of shite.

 

[DaveCinzano]

This smells like a pile of poo designed to sell papers/clickbait

It smells like sex out there – and we seem determined to ignore it | Nell Frizzell

Whether you are waiting at the bus stop or outside Lidl, the spring scent hangs heavy in the air, says Nell Frizzell, author of The Panic Years

www.theguardian.com

First time I've seen someone btl get 600 votes for just saying this is a pile of shite.

Also, no effort in the headline department

CUM ON SMELL THE JOYS
SPUNKY OLD BEGONIA
GOOD NIGHT CHLORINE

 

[stavros]

My struggle with giving up my smartphone (temporarily).

For those who don't remember the same thing in 2016, 2018 and 2021.

 

[Sue]

Also, no effort in the headline department

CUM ON SMELL THE JOYS
SPUNKY OLD BEGONIA
GOOD NIGHT CHLORINE

You've clearly missed your calling (thank fuck...)

 

[Brainaddict]

My struggle with giving up my smartphone (temporarily).

For those who don't remember the same thing in 2016, 2018 and 2021.

I don't think there's anything wrong with repeating that type of story. It has a massive effect on people's mental health and millions of people struggle with their phone use, and will continue to do so possibly forever. There are possibly some more interesting approaches to it they could come up with besides individual efforts to break the addiction, but I don't think it's unreasonable to keep talking about it - in fact it's quite good because it makes people feel less alone with their personal struggles.

 

[rekil]

Also, no effort in the headline department

CUM ON SMELL THE JOYS
SPUNKY OLD BEGONIA
GOOD NIGHT CHLORINE

GuardianBaby makes bid for xmas number 1, 2 and 3.

 

[rekil]

Wake Up Punk review – memorabilia-burning punk progeny fails to check his privilege

This documentary about Joe Corré, the son of Vivienne Westwood and the late Malcolm McLaren, is a strangely listless and unlikable affair

www.theguardian.com

The film is on much stronger ground when it gets on to the more interesting question of who are the heirs to punk. Corré and Westwood both think that Julian Assange is a true punk; and whatever you think about Assange, yes, there is something in that.

Oh no there isn't.

 

[ska invita]

Great summary from Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper

The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies to neutralise its adversarial reporting of the ‘security state’, according to newly released documents and evidence from former...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

 

[killer b]

There is a truly incredible line in this piece of 'analysis' from Rowena Mason

Keir Starmer’s moment of drama is an unexpected gamble

Analysis: Resignation promise has been praised as a bold move, but not everyone in the Labour camp is convinced it’s the right one

www.theguardian.com

 

[two sheds]

Great summary from Matt Kennard and Mark Curtis

How the UK Security Services neutralised the country’s leading liberal newspaper

The Guardian, Britain’s leading liberal newspaper with a global reputation for independent and critical journalism, has been successfully targeted by security agencies to neutralise its adversarial reporting of the ‘security state’, according to newly released documents and evidence from former...

www.dailymaverick.co.za

The section on Corbyn pushing a threat to national security and anti-semitism is interesting:

Given its appeal to traditional Labour supporters, the paper has probably done more to undermine Corbyn than any other. In particular, its massive coverage of alleged widespread anti-Semitism in the Labour Party has helped to disparage Corbyn more than other smears carried in the media.

The Guardian and The Observer have published hundreds of articles on “Labour anti-Semitism” and, since the beginning of this year, carried over 50 such articles with headlines clearly negative to Corbyn. Typical headlines have included “The Observer view: Labour leadership is complicit in anti-Semitism”, “Jeremy Corbyn is either blind to anti-Semitism – or he just doesn’t care”, and “Labour‘s anti-Semitism problem is institutional. It needs investigation”.

The Guardian’s coverage of anti-Semitism in Labour has been suspiciously extensive, compared to the known extent of the problem in the party, and its focus on Corbyn personally suggests that the issue is being used politically.

While anti-Semitism does exist in the Labour Party, evidence suggests it is at relatively low levels. Since September 2015, when Corbyn became Labour leader, 0.06% of the Labour membership has been investigated for anti-Semitic comments or posts.

In 2016, an independent inquiry commissioned by Labour concluded that the party “is not overrun by anti-Semitism, Islamophobia or other forms of racism. Further, it is the party that initiated every single United Kingdom race equality law.”

Analysis of two YouGov surveys, conducted in 2015 and 2017, shows that anti-Semitic views held by Labour voters declined substantially in the first two years of Corbyn’s tenure and that such views were significantly more common among Conservative voters.

Despite this, since January 2016, The Guardian has published 1,215 stories mentioning Labour and anti-Semitism, an average of around one per day, according to a search on Factiva, the database of newspaper articles. In the same period, The Guardian published just 194 articles mentioning the Conservative Party’s much more serious problem with Islamophobia. A YouGov poll in 2019, for example, found that nearly half of the Tory Party membership would prefer not to have a Muslim prime minister.

At the same time, some stories which paint Corbyn’s critics in a negative light have been suppressed by The Guardian. According to someone with knowledge of the matter, The Guardian declined to publish the results of a months-long critical investigation by one of its reporters into a prominent anti-Corbyn Labour MP, citing only vague legal issues.

In July 2016, one of this article’s authors emailed a Guardian editor asking if he could pitch an investigation about the first attempt by the right-wing of the Labour Party to remove Corbyn, informing The Guardian of very good inside sources on those behind the attempt and their real plans. The approach was rejected as being of no interest before a pitch was even sent.​

plus a section at the end downplaying the security services involvement with torture.

 

[ska invita]

The section on Corbyn pushing a threat to national security and anti-semitism is interesting:



plus a section at the end downplaying the security services involvement with torture.

this graph...

We cant know for certain how precisely the consent management process plays out at the Guardian, but I think the relationship with "security services" ( MI5 ) is an interesting aspect of this...when you consider this next to the near full spectrum infiltration of MI5 in campaign groups (over a 1,000 groups infiltrated) The Guardian seems like an easy target to me.

Of course secret state stuff is easily dismissed as conspiracy theory, but the spycops inquiry shows that even the most paranoid notions of infiltration would've been conservative compared to the reality

 

[billy_bob]

There is a truly incredible line in this piece of 'analysis' from Rowena Mason

Keir Starmer’s moment of drama is an unexpected gamble

Analysis: Resignation promise has been praised as a bold move, but not everyone in the Labour camp is convinced it’s the right one

www.theguardian.com

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I read that with dismay too. The suggestion that the way 'beergate' has unfolded was all a tactical play on Starmer's part is a remarkable exercise in wishful thinking.

Of the current Labour frontbench, Rayner's the only one who seems remotely up to the job of leader. Yes, she'd get the same onslaught Corbyn faced, but she wouldn't sit quietly planting jam while she got it - she'd fire back, and I'd be interested to see how that might play out. But she might be implicated at the same time as Starmer and be unable to credibly take over, so ... god knows ... maybe give Ed another go... ?

 

[billy_bob]

two sheds I wasn't being serious. But OTOH, looking at the Labour frontbench, it's slim pickings...

 

[Pickman's model]

two sheds I wasn't being serious. But OTOH, looking at the Labour frontbench, it's slim pickings...

a row of thick arses

 

[Pickman's model]

maybe give Ed another go... ?

 

[Sue]

Ed stone #2 would cheer us all up in these difficult times.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ed stone #2 would cheer us all up in these difficult times.

the parliamentary conservative party being made to walk over a minefield would cheer us all up in these difficult times

 

[Sue]

the parliamentary conservative party being made to walk over a minefield would cheer us all up in these difficult times

Not sure there's any need to be party political about it tbh.

 

[two sheds]

it's slim pickings...

The triumphant next labour leader

 

[billy_bob]

the parliamentary conservative party being made to walk over a minefield would cheer us all up in these difficult times

Sounds like there might not be enough jeopardy to this. Could we add random drone strikes or something?

 

[billy_bob]

a row of thick arses

What you doing, looking at their arses? Has Rayner been up to her old distraction tricks again?

 

[Pickman's model]

What you doing, looking at their arses? Has Rayner been up to her old distraction tricks again?

arses in the figurative sense, thick in the two short planks sense

 

[DaveCinzano]

Lots of letters but not necessarily in the right order

It also comes weeks after intervention former prime minister David Cameron claimed PreventThe was being compromised by Muslim critics, criticism that was widely branded as Islamophobic.

Anti-terrorism programme must keep focus on far right, say experts

Analysts question Home Office strategy after it emerged that a review of its Prevent programme was pushing for it to refocus on Islamist threats

www.theguardian.com

 

[Rob Ray]

You can almost feel the pendulum swinging away from a polarising and ultimately grubby era back towards a politics at least vaguely connected to truth and reality. Or at least you can if you want to badly enough.

Australia has shown how quickly the right can crumble. Boris Johnson, be warned | Gaby Hinsliff

What a lesson to take from a decade of absolute lunatics taking more and more political ground enabled by centrists' abject failure to address any of the structural issues driving voter anger and political apathy. That all you have to do is wait and eventually the right will fuck over enough people in such appalling ways that it'll make your case for you. And then an anemic wastrel from your team can have a go at waffling ineffectually from the top table while cementing the logics of the right which led to their election in the first place, fueling their rejuvenation. Then start the whole cycle over again as the planet burns, services collapse and hard-won human rights are tossed out the window.

And she's writing this tosh in the face of the looming 2022 US elections, with Biden poised to lose seats to the abject madness of fucking Trumpism, again, because of this very strategy.

My God liberals are just the fucking worst.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Australia has shown how quickly the right can crumble. Boris Johnson, be warned | Gaby Hinsliff

What a lesson to take from a decade of absolute lunatics taking more and more political ground enabled by centrists' abject failure to address any of the structural issues driving voter anger and political apathy. That all you have to do is wait and eventually the right will fuck over enough people in such appalling ways that it'll make your case for you. And then an anemic wastrel from your team can have a go at waffling ineffectually from the top table while cementing the logics of the right which led to their election in the first place, fueling their rejuvenation. Then start the whole cycle over again as the planet burns, services collapse and hard-won human rights are tossed out the window.

And she's writing this tosh in the face of the looming 2022 US elections, with Biden poised to lose seats to the abject madness of fucking Trumpism, again, because of this very strategy.

My God liberals are just the fucking worst.

Wasn't she the 'Prince Philip was a feminist' one? She'll have to work hard to top that tbh.

 

[hash tag]

It's not just a whole page article on a television programme but it's a programme on a subscription only channel