Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[May Kasahara]

The rise of Britishcore: 100 experiences that define and unite modern Britons

Forget the pomp and pageantry. As people worldwide are now discovering, the UK was built on crisp sarnies, trips to B&Q and that age-old question: Corrie or EastEnders?

www.theguardian.com

Genuinely the worst, cringiest thing I have ever read. Reads like an alien has watched a boxed set of TOWIE and then been asked to create a list of 'authentic' experiences using drunk AI.

Or what happens when privately educated Oxbridge types try to get down with the plebs.

From the latest Private Eye, surprising absolutely no one:

 

[DaveCinzano]

From the latest Private Eye, surprising absolutely no one:

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"QUICK - DISTRACT THE READERS WITH A DOUBLE-LENGTH CHILES COLUMN!"

 

[Peter Norf]

"QUICK - DISTRACT THE READERS WITH A DOUBLE-LENGTH CHILES COLUMN!"

He hasn’t got more than 250 words in him

 

[DaveCinzano]

He hasn’t got more than 250 words in him

That's what thesauruses are for

 

[planetgeli]

That's what thesauruses are for

Or that's what being the partner of the Guardian editor-in-chief Katherine "Kath" Viner is for (as Chiles is).

Apologies for explaining your joke Dave. I just really hate the cunts. Can the Grauniad even spell nepotism?

 

[Peter Norf]

Can the Grauniad even spell nepotism?

‘Internships’ I think they’re called

 

[Cerv]

Private London college taught students by showing videos, investigation reveals

Business students at £9,250-a-year Regent College London raised series of complaints with Office for Students

www.theguardian.com

article is about Regent College.
photo instead is a very old (at least 10 years) pic of Regent's University London back when that was still Regent's College - possessive.
photo caption says Regents College - plural. which afaik has never been a thing.

the actual Regent College is a much less impressive concrete block of a building in the middle of a row on great titchfield st, not sat in a park.

 

[Chz]

Ooh, I'll send that to my boss. Regent was her last workplace, and the stories she's told don't make the article that surprising.
That said, I'm sure we do that too in at least one course.

 

[Pickman's model]

He hasn’t got more than 250 words in him

And all of them are shit

 

[DaveCinzano]

Or that's what being the partner of the Guardian editor-in-chief Katherine "Kath" Viner is for (as Chiles is).

Apologies for explaining your joke Dave. I just really hate the cunts. Can the Grauniad even spell nepotism?

 

[brogdale]

Essential reading.

 

[belboid]

Urban outing?

The Curious Columns of Adrian Chiles - Off The Shelf

Adrian Chiles’s weekly column for the Guardian has gained a cult following for his unique insights into everything from the present tense in history podcasts to his favourite spoon, or the correct duration of a hug. Join him as he takes us on a bright, bemused tour of British life, delivering...

offtheshelf.org.uk

 

[TopCat]

Urban outing?

The Curious Columns of Adrian Chiles - Off The Shelf

Adrian Chiles’s weekly column for the Guardian has gained a cult following for his unique insights into everything from the present tense in history podcasts to his favourite spoon, or the correct duration of a hug. Join him as he takes us on a bright, bemused tour of British life, delivering...

offtheshelf.org.uk

What? Pop up and tease him?

 

[Sue]

Urban outing?

The Curious Columns of Adrian Chiles - Off The Shelf

Adrian Chiles’s weekly column for the Guardian has gained a cult following for his unique insights into everything from the present tense in history podcasts to his favourite spoon, or the correct duration of a hug. Join him as he takes us on a bright, bemused tour of British life, delivering...

offtheshelf.org.uk

'Join him as he takes us on a bright, bemused tour of British life, delivering offbeat truths and a comforting blast of humour and warmth for baffling times.

Britain’s much-loved broadcaster muses on the sacred and the profane, the whimsical and the bizarre, offering his idiosyncratic take on self-checkouts, speeding tickets, falling into a bed of wild garlic and discovering he has a naked doppelgänger on OnlyFans.'

All for a tenner! Shoot me now.

 

[Pickman's model]

The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon

She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature

www.theguardian.com

Ann Radcliffe's novels have been in the Oxford world classics series for many years so this breathless here's an author only now rescued from obscurity bit is nonsense. It's the same as when a biography of george orwell's first wife came out (Why the Guardian is going down the pan!), you'd think she'd never been written about before

 

[PTK]

Private London college taught students by showing videos, investigation reveals

Business students at £9,250-a-year Regent College London raised series of complaints with Office for Students

www.theguardian.com

article is about Regent College.
photo instead is a very old (at least 10 years) pic of Regent's University London back when that was still Regent's College - possessive.
photo caption says Regents College - plural. which afaik has never been a thing.

the actual Regent College is a much less impressive concrete block of a building in the middle of a row on great titchfield st, not sat in a park.

"This article was amended on 3 October 2024 to replace an image which showed the wrong institution."

 

[Pickman's model]

"This article was amended on 3 October 2024 to replace an image which showed the wrong institution."

Yeh they often use an image of university college London for articles on higher education even when the article doesn't mention ucl

 

[brogdale]

Yeh they often use an image of university college London for articles on higher education even when the article doesn't mention ucl

Maybe the picture editors believe that this use of the image of UCL maximises pleasure and minimises pain?

 

[PTK]

Yeh they often use an image of university college London for articles on higher education even when the article doesn't mention ucl

There are certain stock images that are used for certain categories of article. There is a particular picture of houses that are used in papers and magazines for articles on "housing".

 

[andysays]

The queen of suspense: how Ann Radcliffe inspired Dickens and Austen – then got written out of the canon

She was all but forgotten. Now the 18th-century author’s republished novels reveal why she made such an extraordinary contribution to literature

www.theguardian.com

Ann Radcliffe's novels have been in the Oxford world classics series for many years so this breathless here's an author only now rescued from obscurity bit is nonsense. It's the same as when a biography of george orwell's first wife came out (Why the Guardian is going down the pan!), you'd think she'd never been written about before

Ann Radcliffe is so obscure that there have been not one but two adaptations of The Mysteries of Udolpho on Radio 4 in the past 30 years.





It's also published by Penguin Classics.

Well worth a read, but hardly needing to be rescued from obscurity.

 

[Serge Forward]

Basically, Donna Ferguson writes an article about someone she'd never heard of and, with typical Guardian arrogance, assumes no one else could have heard of Ann Radcliffe either.

 

[PTK]

Basically, Donna Ferguson writes an article about someone she'd never heard of and, with typical Guardian arrogance, assumes no one else could have heard of Ann Radcliffe either.

To be fair, I do that sort of thing all the time.

Should this thread not be titled "How. . ." rather than "Why. . . "?
I have seen no evidence of an explanation.

 

[Serene]

Guardian readers will all be out mudlarking on the thames today with their straw hats on.

 

[Indeliblelink]

‘The community is in the fabric of the building’: as UK pupil numbers fall, what will happen to empty schools?

The exodus of young families from some areas amid rising housing and childcare costs has left empty buildings

www.theguardian.com

*This article was amended on 6 October 2024. An earlier version incorrectly described the Rookhope primary school, now closed, as being “off the Northumberland coast”.

 

[Serge Forward]

To be fair, I do that sort of thing all the time.

Should this thread not be titled "How. . ." rather than "Why. . . "?
I have seen no evidence of an explanation.

Or "Why the Guardian has always been down the pan, apart for the occasional diamond in the dogshit"?

 

[PTK]

‘The community is in the fabric of the building’: as UK pupil numbers fall, what will happen to empty schools?

The exodus of young families from some areas amid rising housing and childcare costs has left empty buildings

www.theguardian.com

I initially thought that you had invented that.
Did not the proof reader think that there was somehing fishy about a school being "off the coast"? And it turns out that it got the wrong county, too.

 

[PTK]

It seems to me that The Guardian had outsoured its proof reading to its readers.

 

[May Kasahara]

"How I learned that two totally different experiences are totally different", wtf is this utter tenuousity.

 

[PTK]

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"How I learned that two totally different experiences are totally different", wtf is this utter tenuousity.

"How I learned that being a writer and writing for The Guardian" are total opposites."

 

[Serge Forward]

How I learned that night and day are totally different... how I learned that Equatorial Guinea and Baffin Bay are not the same... etc...