Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[articul8]

leeds are scum to be fair

 

[butchersapron]

You think a piece by the noted comedic writer Jim White may not be serious?

 

[butchersapron]

leeds are scum to be fair

Have you 'caused an aggro' recently?

 

[killer b]

You think a piece by the noted comedic writer Jim White may not be serious?

i've never noted him before or since as anything tbh. that's a relief though.

 

[butchersapron]

i've never noted him before or since as anything tbh. that's a relief though.

He's not funny - his humorous sports stuff on the radio was pretty terrible too.

 

[articul8]

Have you 'caused an aggro' recently?

that was a typo - should have read "any aggro"

 

[ViolentPanda]

the worst is when someone like Eric Pickles or IDS walk past. It takes restraint not to give them a slap on the back and a "hail fellow, well met!".

CFY

 

[William of Walworth]

Those pieces by Michael White and Simon Jenkins, linked to earlier up, were both beyond bizarre!

 

[weepiper]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/nov/02/affordable-everyday-red-wine

It's easy enough to find a wine for a special occasion, but less so to find a reliable, inexpensive red for midweek drinking. When you do find one of those, it's worth buying in quantity because you always get a discount for an unsplit case.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

one of the UK’s leading experts on food and drink matching

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Oh, for heaven's sake. What is there to object to here, Weepiper? If it was an article about affordable reds in the £50-£60 category then you might have a point, but a piece about £6 bottles that suggests they can be bought in bulk isn't really of note in a mass-market broadsheet.

 

[weepiper]

What is there to object to here, Weepiper?

First world problem. The hardship of not being able to find a bottle of wine cheap enough to buy by the case for your boring mundane everyday drinking requirements.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

It's a first world newspaper with a first world readership. Suggesting that its loyal fans enjoy mid-priced mid-week red isn't really evidence of metropolitan condescension to indigent Picts.

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's a first world newspaper with a first world readership. Suggesting that its loyal fans enjoy mid-priced mid-week red isn't really evidence of metropolitan condescension to indigent Picts.

Whereas your post is.

 

[rekil]

The tribal grunts of left and right will not rescue us

The right has no answer to the widening gulf between rich and poor. The left has no answer to the chronic need for welfare targeting and means testing. When the right makes changes to health policy, housing subsidies or deregulation, the left howls. When the left proposes higher property taxes or fewer prisoners, the right howls. These are mere tribal grunts.

Was he a LibDem backer?

E2a: What a stupid question. Nick Clegg's in the last ditch. Now is the time for him to come out fighting Linked earlier wasn't it.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Simon Jenkins really is a cunt

 

[Mapped]

Raffles to go to Eton!

All parents of 10-year-olds (yes, girls too) would be issued with a special 09- phone number. It would cost, say, £15 a call to defray lost fees, and the number could only be used once. Two hundred names would then be drawn from a top hat.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/09/eton-raffle

 

[weepiper]

I wouldn't send any of my kids to Eton if they paid me 30 grand a year.

 

[DotCommunist]

Raffles to go to Eton!



http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/nov/09/eton-raffle

the gentleman thug

 

[redsquirrel]

The tribal grunts of left and right will not rescue us



Was he a LibDem backer?

E2a: What a stupid question. Nick Clegg's in the last ditch. Now is the time for him to come out fighting Linked earlier wasn't it.

What a massive, massive cunt. Hopefully he'll get hit by a bus.

 

[butchersapron]

From their twitter:

Diwali drinks: sharbats, falooda... or champagne. What will you be drinking as part of your celebrations?

 

[rekil]

All out of champagne here. How bout you cunts?

 

[butchersapron]

What a massive, massive cunt. Hopefully he'll get hit by a bus.

Would you be at all surprised to learn that he was privately schooled and went to oxbridge?

 

[elbows]

From their twitter:

Diwali drinks: sharbats, falooda... or champagne. What will you be drinking as part of your celebrations?

The blood of a BBC Director General.

 

[Santino]

Hello-hurrah, there's a price to pay for the Eton raffles,
Hello-hurrah, I'd prefer the plague to the Eton raffles.

 

[danny la rouge]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/nov/16/beat-taxman-keep-child-benefit

Now, I actually don't like means-tested benefits, but that aside, this article is nauseating.

 

[teqniq]

haha £50,000+ ? I would like to earn over £20,000

 

[Maurice Picarda]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/aug/17/big-mess-trifle-recipe-lepard

I'm appalled that the subs let this go without an Eton Trifles headline or standfirst. Down the pan indeed.

 

[William of Walworth]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2012/nov/16/beat-taxman-keep-child-benefit

Now, I actually don't like means-tested benefits, but that aside, this article is nauseating.

Agreed -- revolting. No wonder the author stayed anonymous!

It's sparked off some lively debate underneath though. Plenty of negative criticisms from some contributors. This is representative of the more critical posts :

Wealth protection advice that is utterly irrelevant to the 95% of households in the UK that can only dream of... sorry, aspire to an income of £50k+.
If I didn't already read The Guardian for free I'd cancel my subscription...

 

[butchersapron]

Headline: Rotherham byelection brings relief for Labour as Ukip celebrates second place

Suggests a labour party under pressure finally able to break out. Reality =10+ lead for months, lead 6+ since the early days of the last election.