Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Elpenor]

Seem to have stopped their top 50 films / albums / songs / tv listings this year

Cutbacks?

 

[magneze]

Strikes I think?

 

[krtek a houby]

Nothing good on at the pictures/on telly/on the radio these days?

 

[Elpenor]

Strikes I think?

Ah that would be an acceptable reason then

 

[Cerv]

Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle

Scott Trust will become a key shareholder and take a seat on both the editorial and commercial boards of the company

www.theguardian.com

the sale of the observer is on

 

[Wilf]

Sale of the Observer to Tortoise Media agreed in principle

Scott Trust will become a key shareholder and take a seat on both the editorial and commercial boards of the company

www.theguardian.com

the sale of the observer is on

I have nothing to add, other than I heard James Harding on some Radio 4 media programme and he sounded a right wanker.

 

[Whagwan]

Carole Cadwalladr promoting a Transphobic hate account and making a joke out of the murder of Brianna Ghey has not endeared me to her cause.

 

[pbsmooth]

Stewart Lee on the Observer picket line

 

[Elpenor]

Do you have a work wife? Continues on for another 400 words of bilge

The value of a work wife, a gender-neutral term, obviously, can’t be overstated. With the amount of time we spend at work, the characters we meet, the way grievances build up, work wives see how we conduct ourselves when we are stressed. They’re part of it all. They’re soldiers for the office dramas, knowing the way colleagues’ voices grate, experiencing the challenging co-workers that walk among us; work wives are battle ready.

We have no business even knowing each other. But the value of my work wife cannot be overstated | Emily Mulligan

What good is piping hot gossip when you have to explain every character’s years-long backstory and their annoying snacking habits?

www.theguardian.com

 

[pbsmooth]

goodbye to £190 cord trousers...

‘I can’t imagine wearing anything else’: Goodbye to Old Town, the beloved Norfolk clothing company

Stylish but timeless, Old Town’s utility-inspired tailored clothes have won many fans among artists and celebrities. Now it’s to close, leaving devoted customers bereft

www.theguardian.com

 

[stavros]

A magazine piece on milk floats, which calls them "a uniquely British sight"?

 

[brogdale]

goodbye to £190 cord trousers...

‘I can’t imagine wearing anything else’: Goodbye to Old Town, the beloved Norfolk clothing company

Stylish but timeless, Old Town’s utility-inspired tailored clothes have won many fans among artists and celebrities. Now it’s to close, leaving devoted customers bereft

www.theguardian.com

This was the bit that got me; imagine paying top dollar to end up looking like Farage

 

[Elpenor]

I don’t think I’ve ever paid £190 for any item of clothing. Probably spend around that in total a year on clothing

 

[krtek a houby]

A magazine piece on milk floats, which calls them "a uniquely British sight"?

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Is that Pat Laffan?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Is that Pat Laffan?

Pat Mustard I think.

 

[steeplejack]

This was the bit that got me; imagine paying top dollar to end up looking like Farage

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Yeh looks like the local fascist on an anti-migrant leaflet photoshoot

Either that or someone trying to work out if the bus to Faversham is running on a bank holiday

 

[Bus Honeygun]

So many laughs in that piece. For me it's a toss-up between working class hero Monty Don toiling in the oomska of his garden (whatever that means...) or seeing my own favourite jacket described as 'drearily ubiquitous'. I shall have to try harder...

 

[_Russ_]

Bravo the Guardian

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

www.theguardian.com

 

[taperoo2k]

Bravo the Guardian

Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X

We will stop posting from our official editorial accounts on the platform, but X users can still share our articles

www.theguardian.com

Following in the wake of other media companies. You can get much more engagement on Bluesky (and Threads to a degree) than you
can on X.

 

[brogdale]

A headline in search of a "than"....

 

[magneze]

Needs a graph showing correlation to sprout ingestion.

 

[Elpenor]

Came here to make that same comment!

 

[two sheds]

Needs a graph showing correlation to sprout ingestion.

more like methane I'd have thought

 

[redsquirrel]

Major increase in young people spending Christmas Day alone in UK

People aged 21-34 who will spend holiday on their own this year up ninefold compared with 1969, study finds

www.theguardian.com

Drawing a line between two data points FFS

 

[brogdale]

Major increase in young people spending Christmas Day alone in UK

People aged 21-34 who will spend holiday on their own this year up ninefold compared with 1969, study finds

www.theguardian.com

Drawing a line between two data points FFS

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Shame because the data, though Christmas oriented, could have been the catalyst for some interesting attempts at structural explanations for the recorded changes. Instead, the paper offered this:

Prof Bobby Duffy, the director of the Policy Institute, said: “Christmas is just a little bit lonelier and less joyous or magical than it was 55 years ago. The proportion of people spending the day itself alone has doubled, we’re less likely to say we enjoy it, and a lot less likely to think parents should encourage their children to believe in Santa.

 

[Chz]

Shame because the data, though Christmas oriented, could have been the catalyst for some interesting attempts at structural explanations for the recorded changes. Instead, the paper offered this:

I usually say a rolleyes reaction would increase negativity in the forums, but there's a perfectly good use for them. (Meaning the bit quoted, not your post brogdale - forum software doesn't have a shortcut to quote quotes)

 

[two sheds]

I usually say a rolleyes reaction would increase negativity in the forums, but there's a perfectly good use for them. (Meaning the bit quoted, not your post brogdale - forum software doesn't have a shortcut to quote quotes)

yes but the rolleyes reaction would have to include "meaning the bit quoted, not your post" every time

 

[Serene]

I assume people have read what it often says at the end of a Guardian online news story?

This is what we're up against​

A media ecosystem dominated by a handful of billionaire owners.

Bad actors spreading disinformation online to fuel intolerance.

Teams of lawyers from the rich and powerful trying to stop us publishing stories they don’t want you to see.

Lobby groups with opaque funding who are determined to undermine facts about the climate emergency and other established science.

Authoritarian states with no regard for the freedom of the press.

 

[kabbes]

A headline in search of a "than"....

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Presumably “than on other days of the year”? I think it’s a useful thing to highlight — the huge environmental impact of this festival of consumption.

 

[Artaxerxes]

I don’t think I’ve ever paid £190 for any item of clothing. Probably spend around that in total a year on clothing

Shoes are the only thing I’ll spend even remotely near that on and it’s usually half that