Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Sue]

'I've been a Coutts customer for years and it's like soooo embarrassing. And I don't really get anything out of it. It's all just soooo embarrassing that I use my Monzo card instead.'

I’m secretly a Coutts customer but for people like me there’s little point

You need be rich to take advantage of the actually useful stuff – I hide my card and just use my Monzo

www.theguardian.com

 

[DaveCinzano]

You might expect from this article about a man of Indian heritage adopted into a white family and travelling around India for the first time that there be interesting reflections on identity and belonging.

I wasn't expecting that, because I know he's the consumer field test dude who got moved into doing the amusing regular magazine features

 

[Flavour]

I got a puncture in Italy – and managed to ruin two whole days for 12 people | Zoe Williams

Our holiday misadventure was time-consuming and revelatory. Turns out, Mr Z can change a tyre in his sleep

www.theguardian.com

Could it possibly have gone worse?

 

[May Kasahara]

I despise Zoe Williams' output.

 

[DaveCinzano]

In next week's thrilling installment, Tim Dowling - who has been on holiday in the same area with his own family and appears from the other direction - stops, and is equally rubbish. No tyres are fixed, everyone is swept up in a freak locust storm, a planet-devouring rip in time appears in the sky above, sucking all and sundry into it, until nothing remains. Except Polly Toynbee, who blames it on Corbyn.

 

[belboid]

Dowling is far worse than Williams. He has never written a sentence worth reading in his life.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Zoe Williams is annoying because she is capable of writing some decent stuff if she puts her mind to it but generally chooses not to.

 

[ska invita]

Zoe Williams is annoying because she is capable of writing some decent stuff if she puts her mind to it but generally chooses not to.

her foray into politics was backing owen smith over corbyn
seems to have retreated after that into Kids Say The Funniest Things and Isnt Going On Holiday Really Hard dross

 

[Cerv]

getting annoyed by the Lifestyle section is funny to me.
it's like picking up Hello magazine and complaining that it's exactly what you'd expect from that.
just don't read it. stick to the news pages & the crossword

 

[belboid]

her foray into politics was backing owen smith over corbyn

she backed Corbyn on 2015

 

[ska invita]

she backed Corbyn on 2015

she backed Smith in the 2016 coup

 

[belboid]

she did, but it wasn't her first or only foray into politics

 

[pbsmooth]

I got a puncture in Italy – and managed to ruin two whole days for 12 people | Zoe Williams

Our holiday misadventure was time-consuming and revelatory. Turns out, Mr Z can change a tyre in his sleep

www.theguardian.com

Could it possibly have gone worse?

Not even well written and all over in four paragraphs. Could have vomited that out in about half an hour. Very strange. And pointless.

 

[two sheds]

Sort of thing you'd write in your diary and nobody else would read for good reason.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Even Adrian Chiles rolled his eyes

 

[belboid]

Not even well written and all over in four paragraphs. Could have vomited that out in about half an hour. Very strange. And pointless.

My comment got deleted for breaching community standards.

I don’t know what’s wrong with asking ‘does every guardian columnist have to write a What I Did On My Holidays piece?’

 

[Raheem]

Liz Taylor is not his style...

Even Adrian Chiles rolled his eyes

 

[Serge Forward]

What a load of bilge. Jesus, it's just a fucking puncture. She wasn't in a car that swerved to avoid going off a cliff then overturned and the roof collapsed in on those inside... then the driver got taken to hospital while the concussed passengers got left by the roadside to hithike to the nearest town.

That happened to me... but I don't write for the Guardian.

 

[pbsmooth]

I've only just noticed they've added a limit to free articles - but it looks like only on the app. So it's free unlimited reading on the website but max 50 on the app. So at some point every month I'll have to tell Chrome not to open links in the app...

 

[BusLanes]

That article feels like content for contents sake.

Which I guess is every online newspaper at this point

 

[Pickman's model]

2017 (orwell society) Eileen: The Making of Orwell
2020 (new statesman) The sacrifices of George Orwell’s first wife
2023 The Guardian view on invisible women: cancelled by history, restored with care | Editorial

 

[CNT36]

From today's email briefing thing

That may sum up what 4,500 British scouts have felt this week, after their trip of a lifetime to the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea turned into a bad comedy marked by successive calamities, natural and human-made, that yesterday culminated in the mass evacuation of all 43,000 young people.

That's a lot of shit.

 

[ska invita]

Really well researched long charge sheet here worth reading in full...a popular view of British military and foreign policy
....

Like billionaire-controlled media, The Guardian misinforms its readers on the UK’s role in world

Millions of its readers believe The Guardian offers critical, independent reporting that is different to the right-wing, billionaire-controlled UK media. But its limited coverage of British foreign and security policies gives a misleading picture of what the UK does in the world. The paper is in...

declassifieduk.org

 

[Pickman's model]

The guardian knows not the difference between the metropolitan police and the police federation - Rick prior's comments in this article ascribed to a spokesman for the force and he is said to be vice-chair of the force, a position unknown in police ranks Met police on high alert after ‘staggering IT security’ breach

 

[Raheem]

But, on the other hand, it could improve things by replacing sub-editors.

 

[Petcha]

Not sure what to think about Guardian style guide dictating sub-eds capitalise Black and not white. Seems a bit weird. When did this begin happening? I mean either do both or neither.

And no I'm not an anti-woke or whatever, it's just quite jarring as a designer and therefore also a proof-reader.

Florida shooting: gunman left messages of hate before killing three Black people

FBI opens civil rights investigation as Jacksonville sheriff names shooter and says suspect had no criminal history

www.theguardian.com

A white man, armed with a high-powered rifle and a handgun entered the discount store just before 2pm and shot and killed two men and one woman, before fatally shooting himself. All three victims are Black.

 

[pbsmooth]

Not sure what to think about Guardian style guide dictating sub-eds capitalise Black and not white. Seems a bit weird. When did this begin happening? I mean either do both or neither.

And no I'm not an anti-woke or whatever, it's just quite jarring as a designer and therefore also a proof-reader.

Florida shooting: gunman left messages of hate before killing three Black people

FBI opens civil rights investigation as Jacksonville sheriff names shooter and says suspect had no criminal history

www.theguardian.com

Followed a few US titles a while back now. I remember reading the Nytimes (maybe) explanation for why they did it but still didn't really buy it. I think it was to do with a group of people who have a shared global experience due to being black that doesn't apply to being white.

 

[belboid]

The style guide doesn’t actually ‘dictate’ capitalising the B.

black
should be used only as an adjective when referring to race, ie not “blacks” but “black people” or whatever noun is appropriate. There is debate about the capitalisation of black, with some using it as a physical descriptor, others to describe a specific cultural group, therefore while generally lower case, if a subject, writer or editor of a story prefers to use Black then that choice should be respected. (See also BAME.)

 

[stavros]

Fancy that, residential homes close to schools.

 

[two sheds]

They've stopped saying "within a stone's throw" then