Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[brogdale]

Fears Britain may be heading towards an unprecedented triple-dip recession flared again as the government reported a surprise drop in high street spending last month.

Tells you much about the socio-economic bubble of the fourth estate that they can report any surprise at this.

 

[butchersapron]

That's their economics expert as well.

 

[xenon]

I'm bored of this dip, tripple dip whatevers. It's a bath tub curve ressession. Might be a deep bath but still.

Negative growth. Fucking economists.

 

[belboid]

Beginners guide to Mogwai

Absolutely shit, at least 10 years too late, and just utter rubbish and got twitter to write it

very odd selection of tracks

 

[DotCommunist]

never had any time for mogwai. Think they had a 'blur are a load of shit' t-shirt doin the rounds, that was at least amusing

 

[butchersapron]

That itself should make you make some time for them. Very few magic pixies and shit so may not be your bag.

 

[butchersapron]

Good honest reporting here:

The Tory candidate in the Eastleigh byelection was struggling to maintain a credible challenge for the Liberal Democrat stronghold

 

[brogdale]

Good honest reporting here:

Thanks Butchers; such comedy gold that I've also posted it up in the by-election thread.

 

[captainmission]

If things were different, they wouldn't be the same - reports guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/16/meteorite-uk

The meteorite that caused devastation in the Urals on Friday could have struck Britain if it had entered the atmosphere at only a slightly different time of day, astronomers revealed yesterday.

 

[teqniq]

If things were different, they wouldn't be the same - reports guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/feb/16/meteorite-uk

Yes a proper non-story. Perhaps if it had occurred in a parallel universe it might have been news. Maybe they meant to report it there. My mum disagreed with me but then again they are going to vote LD in the Eastleigh bye-election. There is no hope.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

to be fair the BBC ran that "story" as well

 

[Kaka Tim]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/25/why-rennard-claims-surfaced-now

Michael White bending over backwards to dig clegg out of the 'grope gate' shit. It was just 'knee squeezing' you see? And its cos the nasty media have got it in for the unfairly maligned nick.

I think he did a similar 'leave the politicians alone!' bit of puffery during pleb-gate.

 

[butchersapron]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/25/why-rennard-claims-surfaced-now

Michael White bending over backwards to dig clegg out of the 'grope gate' shit. It was just 'knee squeezing' you see? And its cos the nasty media have got it in for the unfairly maligned nick.

I think he did a similar 'leave the politicians alone!' bit of puffery during pleb-gate.

What great timing - an hour after an allegation too serious to publish has been put into the public view.

 

[brogdale]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2013/feb/25/why-rennard-claims-surfaced-now

Michael White bending over backwards to dig clegg out of the 'grope gate' shit. It was just 'knee squeezing' you see? And its cos the nasty media have got it in for the unfairly maligned nick.

I think he did a similar 'leave the politicians alone!' bit of puffery during pleb-gate.

Quite.

This is piss poor..

Rennard – an official few voters will have heard of – left his job as party chief executive in 2009 on health grounds. Perhaps the party should have been more robust in its response to complaints. Hindsight is a wonderful thing.But as far as we can tell, Rennard's alleged would-be conquests claim they were upset but not assaulted.

 

[butchersapron]

Note their relegation of the story on the internet frontpage.

 

[brogdale]

Not their relagation of the story on the internet frontpage.

Yep, gay cardinal & iffy Italian election are more newsworthy, obs.

 

[butchersapron]

Smell blood? Hide it, quick!

A guardian editors news instinct.

 

[brogdale]

Whereas C4 going for it...

Even the sober Gary Gibbon outlines the conspiracy of silence and puts the boot into Clegg:-

The truth is that in addition to the rumours of allegations about inappropriate behaviour (strongly denied by Lord Rennard) the Lib Dem leader, Nick Clegg, was amongst a growing number of figures in the party who thought Lord Rennard was past his sell-by date as a campaigning wizard.

Nick Clegg in his response to the crisis has probably made things even worse for himself.

His statement yesterday evening looked a little brittle. Nick Clegg clearly felt nauseated by the idea that he wouldn’t take such allegations seriously.
But proclaiming your own virtue is rarely as helpful as giving people grounds to observe it for themselves. Arguably, Nick Clegg should’ve focused less on defending his own hurt sense of honour and more on contrition about collective failures in the party.
Lib Dem president Tim Farron’s not always seen as the most diplomatic or measured figure but his admission that “we screwed this up as a party” might have come better from Nick Clegg’s lips.

Ouch!

 

[ymu]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/eastleigh-worse-kind-of-westminster-charade

In which Toynbee manages to trivialise serious allegations of sexual misconduct whilst patronising the electorate and blaming us for not voting for AV.

 

[DotCommunist]

christ she's pompous

 

[butchersapron]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/feb/26/eastleigh-worse-kind-of-westminster-charade

In which Toynbee manages to trivialise serious allegations of sexual misconduct whilst patronising the electorate and blaming us for not voting for AV.

No No,you're doing it all wrong!!!

 

[teqniq]

Iraq must not blind us to Blair's skill and seriousness

 

[DotCommunist]

had to stop reading when I got to this massive fucking facepalm:

The historical aspect of the Blair era matters because it has become fashionable to treat it merely as a continuum from the Thatcher era which preceded it. This simply was not true. The Blair era – and we are really talking here about the Blair-Brown era – was much more an attempt to reassert social values and new forms of solidarity in the aftermath of Thatcher than an attempt simply to embrace Thatcher's possessive individualism

so which is it, is martin kettle thick as pigshit or dishonest?

 

[danny la rouge]

Iraq must not blind us to Blair's skill and seriousness

I feel genuine nausea.

 

[redsquirrel]

The Guardian homesite links to the Eastleigh bye-election story.

Senior Tory raises questions over PM's leadership

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Eleanor Laing blames poor showing in Eastleigh on leadership for alienating traditional Tories
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Lookslike they've got Wintour back to cheer on the Liberals.

 

[killer b]

'lib dems eye marginal tory seats'

 

[frogwoman]

All they'll be doing is eyeing them tho

 

[redsquirrel]

New definition of pragmatism = getting caught being a bunch of liars, thieves and sex pests.

 

[brogdale]

Comment on O'Farrell's piece claiming the reaction to the dead Fatch 'revelation' caused him electoral harm...

John - you didn't perform so poorly because of the 2 minute hate. You stand for a party that has no ideas. No purpose. No credibility and no principles.
No amount of jokes and nostalgia can disguise that fact.

Was that one of you lot?

 

[butchersapron]

Just really really bad anti-american writing based on the same sort of assumptions it think that it rejects.