Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[brogdale]

Large, well presented interactive mapped piece about Labour's targets seats but, if my constituency is anything to go by, not well researched or secure:

From the piece above showing C & W as Labour's 3rd target seat in Greater London:



That's fine until you consider the actual electoral position:



Yes it is marginal and it is a target seat, but not for Labour who hardly campaign in the seat. 5.2% swing, my arse!

 

[Silas Loom]

The Guardian has always been much better at data visualisations than at data.

 

[PR1Berske]

From the bottom of the current front page. Looks like mushrooms are in this year.

 

[Orang Utan]

Is the first one ‘reading this article’?

Answer: no

Cats, rants and envy scrolling: 27 time-sucking online rabbit holes – and how to avoid them

From tracking your nemesis to chuckling at pets, there are myriad ways to waste time on the internet. We identify some of the worst and what you should do instead

www.theguardian.com

 

[Chz]

I realise that the Guardian is re-using what other people are quoted as saying in their headline, but that doesn't make it correct. Yet another reminder that it's not a "dog whistle" if everyone can hear it. I feel like it gives utterly blatant shit like this a bit of a pass somehow.

Tory candidate accused of dog-whistle tactics against rival with Indian name

Marco Longhi, standing for Dudley North, wrote to British-Pakistani voters about Labour’s Sonia Kumar, underlining her surname

www.theguardian.com

 

[nottsgirl]

Relatable content.

My nine-year-old wanted to fly to Scotland to see Taylor Swift. Somehow I agreed | Lauren Mechling

Mothering a Swiftie can mean making decisions that make you feel like either the best or worst parent in the world

www.theguardian.com

 

[DotCommunist]

 

[Ming]

Prince of Wales thanks Taylor Swift for ‘great evening’ at London show

William celebrated his birthday at singer’s gig at Wembley on Friday with children George and Charlotte

www.theguardian.com

 

[Silas Loom]

Julian Assange: the WikiLeaks founder’s fight for freedom – in pictures

Assange has been released from prison after striking a deal with the US justice department. We look back at his life so far

www.theguardian.com

Cunts. Team up with any chancer who has stolen data in the hope of cheap web traffic, then pretend it’s a high moral ground position. Then lionise a Putin-corrupted rapist.

The rest of their coverage - relegating the election liveblog to an afterthought - is all just as sympathetic.

 

[Rob Ray]

I know Tolly Poynbee is a bit "yes, and" but this one's even more delusional than usual with Toynbee arguing The City is turning social-democratic:

Could central London, headquarters of God and mammon, really be turning red? | Polly Toynbee

The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

I have been finding it quite hard to unearth Tories of the diehard Thatcherite stamp – still-faithful believers in her small state, let alone in her privatisations that are now reviled by most Tory voters. I talk to Mr A, a man in his late 40s living in one of the charming streets here, who worked most of his life in the City but now works in the public sector. He was always a Tory, but no longer. He never voted for Blair. “I and my friendship group in the City on WhatsApp used to be 80% Tory, and they’re 80% Labour now. We’ve turned more left as we get older,” he says. “We were brought up on 90s free market economics at university; we were told it worked. It doesn’t, not in growth or productivity.”

No Polly, a handful of City boys mouthing vague platitudes about the failures of neoliberalism is not evidence that the City is discovering social democracy. It's evidence that Labour is not in any way threatening the continued wealth robbery of high finance goons.

 

[JimW]

I know Tolly Poynbee is a bit "yes, and" but this one's even more delusional than usual with Toynbee arguing The City is turning social-democratic:

Could central London, headquarters of God and mammon, really be turning red? | Polly Toynbee

The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

No Polly, a handful of City boys mouthing vague platitudes about the failures of neoliberalism is not evidence that the City is discovering social democracy. It's evidence that Labour is not in any way threatening the continued wealth robbery of high finance goons.

It's astonishing how deluded the adults in the room are about how anything actually works.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

I know Tolly Poynbee is a bit "yes, and" but this one's even more delusional than usual with Toynbee arguing The City is turning social-democratic:

Could central London, headquarters of God and mammon, really be turning red? | Polly Toynbee

The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

No Polly, a handful of City boys mouthing vague platitudes about the failures of neoliberalism is not evidence that the City is discovering social democracy. It's evidence that Labour is not in any way threatening the continued wealth robbery of high finance goons.

Well they're different things aren't they - the majority of people living in Central London aren't going to be City trader finance types. It probably is true to say the current Tory party doesn't have much to offer that electorate on the whole, they're really not going to be bothered by small boat nonsense.

 

[Silas Loom]

Well they're different things aren't they - the majority of people living in Central London aren't going to be City trader finance types. It probably is true to say the current Tory party doesn't have much to offer that electorate on the whole, they're really not going to be bothered by small boat nonsense.

Yeah, it’s just a bog-standard blue wall seat really, of the type that are going Lab or Lib all over the South East.

 

[Pickman's model]

Apparently people who were at Peterloo would have wanted everyone to vote Mike Leigh: Peterloo protesters would be ‘horrified’ by voter abstention

But what if there is no one standing c19 reformers would have voted for?

 

[flypanam]

This piece on Reeves is so fawning. It even managed to mention PPE at Oxford, the political brain of George Osborne! and a hurrah for good old Chuka…She could soon be the UK’s first female chancellor – but who is Rachel Reeves?

In the real world it’s an unflushable shite.

 

[DotCommunist]

PPE at Oxford

thats like the mark of cain to me, PPE from a russel group uni? to the salt mines my friend.

 

[flypanam]

Relatable content.

My nine-year-old wanted to fly to Scotland to see Taylor Swift. Somehow I agreed | Lauren Mechling

Mothering a Swiftie can mean making decisions that make you feel like either the best or worst parent in the world

www.theguardian.com

“When I was her age, my mother took me to klezmer concerts at Jewish festivals that were accessible by Train” sounds awesome.

 

[Dystopiary]

You be the judge: Should my wife stop putting Lidl hand soap in expensive bottles?​

She doesn’t do it in our private bathroom

 

[Silas Loom]

Today’s guest editor: Quentin Tarantino.

 

[Idris2002]

I know Tolly Poynbee is a bit "yes, and" but this one's even more delusional than usual with Toynbee arguing The City is turning social-democratic:

Could central London, headquarters of God and mammon, really be turning red? | Polly Toynbee

The affluent constituency is home to Mayfair clubs, Soho theatres and City types – one of whom told me: ‘We need to pay more tax’, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee

www.theguardian.com

No Polly, a handful of City boys mouthing vague platitudes about the failures of neoliberalism is not evidence that the City is discovering social democracy. It's evidence that Labour is not in any way threatening the continued wealth robbery of high finance goons.

Polly Toynbee's ALIVE?

 

[nottsgirl]

You be the judge: should my husband stop wearing his slippers outside the house?

Jim thinks it’s fine to wear his slippers in the garden (and the bedroom), but Mindy’s looking out for her carpets. Who’s stepping out of line?

www.theguardian.com

 

[nottsgirl]

Although my life has improved immeasurably since I stopped reading Adrian Chiles’ column.

 

[Sue]

Carrying four pints at once is a particular talent/skill...?

My sausage-like fingers are not sexy. But they have given me one incredible talent | Zoe Williams

I have an excellent genetic inheritance: I can carry four pints at once and am treated with awe and respect in every bar I enter, writes Zoe Williams

www.theguardian.com

(By this measure, I too am 'incredibly talented' despite having small hands.)

 

[ska invita]

(By this measure, I too am 'incredibly talented' despite having small hands.)

you deserve a song

 

[FridgeMagnet]

I mean I have to say that while that is a super trivial article, carrying four pints is actually a useful thing to be able to do, and it doesn't appear to be trying to shame non-four-pint-carriers or claim that it's due to class superiority or if you voted for Brexit you wouldn't be able to.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It may in fact be in the top list of Zoe Williams pieces.

 

[Elpenor]

This is a nice positive article but it irks me that they illustrate a headline of “I’m free to run” with a picture of a cyclist

 

[mx wcfc]

This is a nice positive article but it irks me that they illustrate a headline of “I’m free to run” with a picture of a cyclist

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Triathlon? but yes, I absolutely get what you mean.

 

[pbsmooth]

Carrying four pints is surely a basic skill you learn when you start going out. Or the ability to ask someone to come with you to the bar for a hand.

 

[Cerv]

EU biometric checks for foreign travellers delayed again

Digital border system that will require fingerprint and facial scans postponed until November

www.theguardian.com

image caption

Eurostar has invested millions in revamping St Pancras with new pre-check-in areas to register biometric data. Photograph: Tolga_Tezcan/Getty

yes that is a photo of St Pancras. but clearly EMR trains not Eurostar and not on the international platforms. so nowhere near the revamped check-in area.