Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Orang Utan]

Brand is Savile V.2
I’m sure he’ll serve time eventually

 

[Orang Utan]

Lest we forget:

 

[Chz]

Brand is Savile V.2
I’m sure he’ll serve time eventually

Pure gossip, but reddit is convinced that he's who Katherine Ryan was outing as a predator. They have some convincing arguments, and Fern Brady seems to back it up.
(I think we're getting a bit too RB for this thread. Is there one just for him?)

 

[lazythursday]

Never really got the Monbiot hate either. He must be one of the only columnists who routinely provides his sources for his writing, and fully declares his income. And, as said upthread, he very publicly changes his mind when he gets things wrong - something that seems to annoy people a great deal, but I think is the mark of someone genuinely trying to address issues with facts and logic rather than gut feeling.

 

[Orang Utan]

Pure gossip, but reddit is convinced that he's who Katherine Ryan was outing as a predator. They have some convincing arguments, and Fern Brady seems to back it up.
(I think we're getting a bit too RB for this thread. Is there one just for him?)

I don’t know about the Katherine Ryan thing, but I’ve heard stuff from people who would know. Used to work in TV.
I used to like his comedy

 

[savoloysam]

back when brand was talking leftish I was still rolling my eyes at the 'shift in global consciousness' stuff. And that strain of hippy dippy went a bit wrong during rona didn't it, which I didn't see coming but perhaps I should have.

Anyone remember the revolution shit he was coming out with? I knew he was a twat when he started out as a TV presenter but his website hocking out ridiculously priced "revolution merc" cemented it in stone for him.

"Hey kids let's have a revolution, oh by the way buy my £25 a pop tee shirts*

Nutjob

 

[Sue]

Lest we forget:
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'Talk women into sex'.

 

[Dogsauce]

Never really got the Monbiot hate either. He must be one of the only columnists who routinely provides his sources for his writing, and fully declares his income. And, as said upthread, he very publicly changes his mind when he gets things wrong - something that seems to annoy people a great deal, but I think is the mark of someone genuinely trying to address issues with facts and logic rather than gut feeling.

It’s possibly just because he writes in the guardian, which despite occasionally championing environmental causes, is also full of adverts for expensive polluting vehicles and consumptive lifestyle shite for those wealthy types who use more that their fair share of things. Kind of seems hypocritical to appear there.

 

[SpookyFrank]

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[lazythursday]

It’s possibly just because he writes in the guardian, which despite occasionally championing environmental causes, is also full of adverts for expensive polluting vehicles and consumptive lifestyle shite for those wealthy types who use more that their fair share of things. Kind of seems hypocritical to appear there.

But so does all media. The Guardian doesn't accept fossil fuel advertising, I think the only major publication not to. Not that I don't despise the Guardian for a host of reasons, but I don't think environmentalists can really afford to be too pure about getting the argument out there.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

But so does all media. The Guardian doesn't accept fossil fuel advertising, I think the only major publication not to. Not that I don't despise the Guardian for a host of reasons, but I don't think environmentalists can really afford to be too pure about getting the argument out there.

Yeah. I find Monbiot uneven to say the least. Some of his ideas are half-baked. Ironically, I find his anti-colonialism/imperialism pieces far better than his environmental ones. But of course you get yourself published wherever you can. Otherwise what are you doing? Waffling on to half a dozen people on Urban75. That's what. :-|

 

[TopCat]

Did it fucking ever. Winter Oak being a standout example, but far from the only one, of activist ex-ravers and hippies going from vaccine hesitancy down a short path to full Great Reset loonfest.

I'm still a bit shocked at the sheer numbers of ravers I know who started chatting shit about the great reset.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

It’s possibly just because he writes in the guardian, which despite occasionally championing environmental causes, is also full of adverts for expensive polluting vehicles and consumptive lifestyle shite for those wealthy types who use more that their fair share of things. Kind of seems hypocritical to appear there.

The thing with this though is that there's always something isn't there. 'They published in the Guardian/said this in an old tweet/know this person etc etc etc'. Who actually passes the left purity test? If they were around today Marx and Engels would fail on any number of counts.

 

[pbsmooth]

Yes and the even more obvious case would be... The Guardian.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Some of the most controversial TV shows in history were actually transmitted unaltered. Real Lives (BBC One, 1985), a documentary about Northern Irish rivals Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness

Pulled! A timeline of TV taken off air

Move over Match of the Day … here’s a look at the most contentious shows that have had to be cancelled, featuring giant pickled penises, melting eyeballs – and footage Thatcher forced the police to seize

www.theguardian.com

 

[Elpenor]

Pulled! A timeline of TV taken off air

Move over Match of the Day … here’s a look at the most contentious shows that have had to be cancelled, featuring giant pickled penises, melting eyeballs – and footage Thatcher forced the police to seize

www.theguardian.com

Provokes the idea that Lineker on MOTD should be voiced by an actor

 

[Raheem]

a documentary about Northern Irish rivals Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness

I've never seen Real Lives, but that might be a true reflection of the angle taken by the film - a Blair/Brown type rivalry.

 

[DaveCinzano]

I've never seen Real Lives, but that might be a true reflection of the angle taken by the film - a Blair/Brown type rivalry.

It's not. It profiles and contrasts two Derry political activists: the republican McGuinness, and unionist Gregory Campbell.

Adams, based in Belfast, does not feature in any significant way, except in a short sequence towards the end (approximately two minutes long) when he appears in his capacity as party president at a Sinn Fein meeting which McGuinness attends.

 

[strung out]

Not really the right thread for it, but I know people here take an interest in the musings of the UK's greatest living columnist, who has done it again.

My biggest surprise of the week? I have a naked lookalike – and he is making a fortune on OnlyFans | Media | The Guardian

It seems people are paying Mike, who looks a bit like me, to read out the football scores while stripping. What’s the world coming to?

amp.theguardian.com

 

[Pickman's model]

The thing with this though is that there's always something isn't there. 'They published in the Guardian/said this in an old tweet/know this person etc etc etc'. Who actually passes the left purity test? If they were around today Marx and Engels would fail on any number of counts.

And rightly so

 

[TopCat]

Not really the right thread for it, but I know people here take an interest in the musings of the UK's greatest living columnist, who has done it again.

My biggest surprise of the week? I have a naked lookalike – and he is making a fortune on OnlyFans | Media | The Guardian

It seems people are paying Mike, who looks a bit like me, to read out the football scores while stripping. What’s the world coming to?

amp.theguardian.com

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“Someone paid me £500 to read out Chiles’ column in the Guardian while performing a sex act on myself.”

 

[Sue]

Not really the right thread for it, but I know people here take an interest in the musings of the UK's greatest living columnist, who has done it again.

I thought that was Polly?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Being paid to read out the football scores while stripping is at least an honest wage.

 

[two sheds]

A bit of justification going on here?

 

[Orang Utan]

So much fun reading the headlines of all 323 of his dafticles right here:

Adrian Chiles | The Guardian

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer. His book The Good Drinker is published by Profile

www.theguardian.com

Hard to decide on a favourite but this is almost there:

Flock me! The day I became a hero to some disdainful sheep

While staying on a Welsh farm, I was given the task of feeding a bunch of ewes. It was the first time a sheep took notice of me

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

Hard to decide on a favourite but this is almost there:

Flock me! The day I became a hero to some disdainful sheep

While staying on a Welsh farm, I was given the task of feeding a bunch of ewes. It was the first time a sheep took notice of me

www.theguardian.com

Shear chutzpah

 

[Puddy_Tat]

bunch of woolly liberals...

 

[Orang Utan]

 

[DaveCinzano]

bunch of woolly liberals...

Baa humbug

 

[Elpenor]

Baa humbug

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