Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
This BAE and Saudi defence procurement scandal that so exercises the Guardian is very yawnsome. Everyone knows that is how things work when petrostates buy vanity aircraft, and why should anyone care?
Why the Guardian is going down the pan!
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Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
She’s “styling editor”, not to be confused with the associate editor (fashion), or the acting fashion and lifestyle editor, or the deputy fashion and lifestyle editor, all of whom have bylines in that section today. The nomenclature politics of Kings Place are vicious because the stakes are so low.
I'm looking forward to the 'what to wear when you're lounging on the settee watching telly' one.
Lurdan
old wave
Yeah, the previous one is a bit out of date
What should you wear when you Netflix and chill? | Fashion | The Guardian (2015)
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
To paraphrase, Fashion is free, but style is sacred, perhaps?
I should've known they'd have already done this.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
The Guardian has recently, like a number of sections of the media, discovered the significance of the Miners strike. However, this was theirappalling editorial that they thought was necessary to provide 'balance' to an article by Arthur Scargill some 15 years ago.
www.theguardian.com
Editorial, The miners' strike: a war no one deserved to win
Editorial: The miners' strike polarised opinion but both sides were at fault
Dystopiary
putting up a hook to hang my hopes upon
The Guardian has recently, like a number of sections of the media, discovered the significance of the Miners strike. However, this was theirappalling editorial that they thought was necessary to provide 'balance' to an article by Arthur Scargill some 15 years ago.
Editorial, The miners' strike: a war no one deserved to win
Editorial: The miners' strike polarised opinion but both sides were at fault
Alan Rusbridger was still the editor then. Really qualified to understand such matters, that guy.
The thing I find objectionable about the Guardian is its hypocrisy. For all its bleating about social justice, fairness etc, it's the only national newspaper I'm aware of that 'lays off' its freelance staff after 10 months and then rehires them. Some kind of employment law dodge I'd imagine.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Freelance staff is something of an oxymoron. Very different beasts in newspaper land.
Their situation with interns is a bit iffy. That may be what you are thinking of?
Their situation with interns is a bit iffy. That may be what you are thinking of?
Nope. 100% freelance staff like subs.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Short-term contracts, then.
I guess, but they then rehire them a month later which seems strange. I haven't seen this happening anywhere else.
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
More likely to be trying to game onerous legacy NUJ chapel agreements than employment law.
PTK
Paul Kegan
Is it really "onerous" to give someone permanent employment?
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Ftfy.
You seem really anti-union (not just here, but in other comments you've made too), Silas Loom. Why is that?
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
I’m not going to have that conversation. I was tricked into it a week ago by someone who introduced seven-year old union-related beef into a completely different topic, and I ended up close to flouncing again.
On this occasion, I was trying to account for GNM’s behaviour, in neutral terms, based on some knowledge of they go about these things.
Why would you not have that conversation?
I don't think that's what happened really? If you make comments about something, it's fair enough for you to be picked up on those comments?
Your remark wasn't neutral though, was it?
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
andysays
Love and solidarity
My Dad, a sub-editor, used to be the NUJ Father of Chapel at the Guardian (he started there as a freelance/casual) until he retired about 10 years ago.
I'll let him know someone on the internet thinks he was doing too good a job
andysays
Love and solidarity
Did he work on a newspaper famed for its spelling mistakes at all?
Yes, in fact part of his job was to ensure the weekly quota of speeling mitsakes was met.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
Philippa Perry is a trained psychotherapist n all that, and certainly had years of experience giving people relationship. I’m sure she is wiser than me about how people relate to each other. I never know how to advise anyone. BUT….
…..why do I always read these columns with a degree of mistrust and alarm? Why do I even read them? Are the correspondents and situations even real? It seems unlikely someone would write in to a newspaper for totally unguaranteed free advice and hope for a response.
This week she is quite shameless about flogging her book, but there’s also something else that’s ringing so many alarms in my head. Is it just me? Is it cos she said some stupid ignorant things about ADHD recently while trying to flog another book? Is it just inverse snobbery at celebrity couples and a contrarian aversion to people deemed to be national treasures?
Or is she just a massive chancer and everyone else sees it too?
I feel bad about thinking all of those things when she’s ostensibly trying to help someone who’s been hurt badly by her own parent navigate her way out of toxicity.
Is she though? Is her advice even good? There’s not really much of it and it’s all very equivocal, which reads like arse-covering.
My instincts would err towards the ‘get out now - it’s too late, cut her off to avoid further damage’, but how can anyone give advice to strangers about anything personal when they don’t know the whole story? This stupid column has taken up way too much space in my head at the beginning of a day of leisure, so allow me to burden you all with it and spread the ill-feeling and misanthropy even further. You’re welcome.
www.theguardian.com
…..why do I always read these columns with a degree of mistrust and alarm? Why do I even read them? Are the correspondents and situations even real? It seems unlikely someone would write in to a newspaper for totally unguaranteed free advice and hope for a response.
This week she is quite shameless about flogging her book, but there’s also something else that’s ringing so many alarms in my head. Is it just me? Is it cos she said some stupid ignorant things about ADHD recently while trying to flog another book? Is it just inverse snobbery at celebrity couples and a contrarian aversion to people deemed to be national treasures?
Or is she just a massive chancer and everyone else sees it too?
I feel bad about thinking all of those things when she’s ostensibly trying to help someone who’s been hurt badly by her own parent navigate her way out of toxicity.
Is she though? Is her advice even good? There’s not really much of it and it’s all very equivocal, which reads like arse-covering.
My instincts would err towards the ‘get out now - it’s too late, cut her off to avoid further damage’, but how can anyone give advice to strangers about anything personal when they don’t know the whole story? This stupid column has taken up way too much space in my head at the beginning of a day of leisure, so allow me to burden you all with it and spread the ill-feeling and misanthropy even further. You’re welcome.
My mum loves other people’s children more than her own | Ask Philippa
Perhaps it may be painful for her to look at why she’s so cold, so she chooses to be in denial, writes Philippa Perry
Silas Loom
Hated by both sides
Philippa Perry is a trained psychotherapist n all that, and certainly had years of experience giving people relationship. I’m sure she is wiser than me about how people relate to each other. I never know how to advise anyone. BUT….
…..why do I always read these columns with a degree of mistrust and alarm? Why do I even read them? Are the correspondents and situations even real? It seems unlikely someone would write in to a newspaper for totally unguaranteed free advice and hope for a response.
This week she is quite shameless about flogging her book, but there’s also something else that’s ringing so many alarms in my head. Is it just me? Is it cos she said some stupid ignorant things about ADHD recently while trying to flog another book? Is it just inverse snobbery at celebrity couples and a contrarian aversion to people deemed to be national treasures?
Or is she just a massive chancer and everyone else sees it too?
I feel bad about thinking all of those things when she’s ostensibly trying to help someone who’s been hurt badly by her own parent navigate her way out of toxicity.
Is she though? Is her advice even good? There’s not really much of it and it’s all very equivocal, which reads like arse-covering.
My instincts would err towards the ‘get out now - it’s too late, cut her off to avoid further damage’, but how can anyone give advice to strangers about anything personal when they don’t know the whole story? This stupid column has taken up way too much space in my head at the beginning of a day of leisure, so allow me to burden you all with it and spread the ill-feeling and misanthropy even further. You’re welcome.
My mum loves other people’s children more than her own | Ask Philippa
Perhaps it may be painful for her to look at why she’s so cold, so she chooses to be in denial, writes Philippa Perry
It’s just traditional agony aunt journalism, which has always relied on fakery and invention, reimagined with a veneer of psychotherapeutic respectability. A bit like the way Derren Brown claims that his end-of-the-pier tricks are based on NLP.
Can see why it annoys you, and it’s a shame that the Guardian doesn’t allow one to block tranches of content, as one can do here with Gaza and Dulwich Hamlet.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
It’s my own fault for habitually checking the papers online throughout a nice day off when I’m supposed to be indulging in leisure and pleasure.
There’s always going to be something that turns me into The Hulk.
Will go now and do something that chills and pleases me. Now that’s good advice!
The day is still young and salvageable and I have a nice project to get to work on - organising my chaotic collection of recipes into colour coded wallets in lever arch files.
I should get the Guardian to pay me for 600 words on the pleasures of filing things that aren’t work.
I’m coming for you, Chiles. Move over. I’ll do it for a fraction of your fee, undercutting you with my worthless stream of banalities. Move over Perry too. I can merge both features and nothing of value will be lost.
There’s always going to be something that turns me into The Hulk.
Will go now and do something that chills and pleases me. Now that’s good advice!
The day is still young and salvageable and I have a nice project to get to work on - organising my chaotic collection of recipes into colour coded wallets in lever arch files.
I should get the Guardian to pay me for 600 words on the pleasures of filing things that aren’t work.
I’m coming for you, Chiles. Move over. I’ll do it for a fraction of your fee, undercutting you with my worthless stream of banalities. Move over Perry too. I can merge both features and nothing of value will be lost.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I could save even more money and stick a recipe in the column too.
andysays
Love and solidarity
Cycling, music, fashion; you could even recycle your posts from here over the years.
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