Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[butchersapron]

If the protests were about say a pretty white girl being murdered by a chavista brute somewhere in Venezuela, I dare say Mr.Carroll's report would have a somewhat different tone.

That's right, he turned up to do some outsider agitating during the stuff last year didn't he. That time he flew 3620 miles from LA to Caracas to do his outside agitation.

 

[rekil]

That's right, he turned up to do some outsider agitating during the stuff last year didn't he. That time he flew 3620 miles from LA to Caracas to do his outside agitation.

This one. "Defiant middle class" subheading. I don't think he bothered leaving LA for it. Is it true he's married to a Venezuelan media oligarch?

 

[butchersapron]

This one. "Defiant middle class" subheading. I don't think he bothered leaving LA for it. Is it true he's married to a Venezuelan media oligarch?

He was def there in march last year. Maybe he got chased out for shit like this.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Why is that


Why does the Guardian give column space to Tories to spout their NHS privatisation agenda?

Because by every gauge that matters, the Guardian surrendered to neoliberalism at around the same time that the Labour Party did. Expecting them not to at least attempt to "explain" shit such as NHS privitisation is like expecting Polly Toynbee not to be patronising.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Because by every gauge that matters, the Guardian surrendered to neoliberalism at around the same time that the Labour Party did. Expecting them not to at least attempt to "explain" shit such as NHS privitisation is like expecting Polly Toynbee not to be patronising.

When did this surrender happen and what political view did they subscribe to before?

 

[Favelado]

From the newspaper that tells you "how to wear" clothes. The fact that no-one thought that might sound a bit patronising at the Guardian tells you much about the mindset of the average cunt they have writing for them.

Today's article is telling us about the comeback of the cravate, which isn't a comeback at all for 99% of people. Who wore them in the first place? A handful of very posh cunts.

Earlier in the summer, I attended the Henley regatta, to which I wore one of my grandfather’s cravats (he loved them and they made him look slightly like Alan Whicker). Whilst everyone was sweltering in button and tie, my neck was cool as a cucumber, I passed all of Henley’s sartorial rules and got stopped twice for compliments.

Risible shit.

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/20/gentlemen-cravat-back-nicholas-parsons

 

[Belushi]

Today's article is telling us about the comeback of the cravate, which isn't a comeback at all for 99% of people. Who wore them in the first place? A handful of very posh cunts.

discokermit

 

[Combustible]

From the newspaper that tells you "how to wear" clothes. The fact that no-one thought that might sound a bit patronising at the Guardian tells you much about the mindset of the average cunt they have writing for them.

Especially as this particular cunt is the son of ex-Tory MP Derek Conway and was 'employed' by his father using taxpayers money, yet there was no evidence he actually did any work.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Especially as this particular cunt is the son of ex-Tory MP Derek Conway and was 'employed' by his father using taxpayers money, yet there was no evidence he actually did any work.

Henry Conway is an English socialite and fashion journalist.

Can someone fetch some ropes and a can of petrol?

 

[Combustible]

Can someone fetch some ropes and a can of petrol?

Well by the looks of it he already conveniently has something tied around his neck.

 

[Pickman's model]

Can someone fetch some ropes and a can of petrol?

i had you down as a necklace man. i see i was wrong.

 

[ViolentPanda]

When did this surrender happen and what political view did they subscribe to before?

Surrender = early '90s.
Prior view = weak Fabian socialism.

 

[DaveCinzano]

i had you down as a necklace man. i see i was wrong.

I feel like I've let the whole school down

 

[Pickman's model]

I feel like I've let the whole school down

 

[MellySingsDoom]

He was bragging about being hungover for this

You're joking, right?

Oh, you're not.

FFS!

 

[Pickman's model]

$50 a day and a free packed lunch!

still waiting for my j18 one i bet it's all gone off by now and the money's probably in auld notes

 

[DaveCinzano]

still waiting for my j18 one i bet it's all gone off by now and the money's probably in auld notes

I spent all mine on samurai swords and darts to throw at horses.

 

[Pickman's model]

I spent all mine on samurai swords and darts to throw at horses.

at least you got it

 

[butchersapron]

I reckon comrade Hill should have tried the Guardian first:

Jesus is not the only messiah figure to have been born around the winter solstice - Joseph Stalin’s birthday, too, falls in that slot. Comrade Hill - clearly something of an old-schooler - wanted to take out a half-page advert in the Star in Koba’s honour. Comrade Bagley spiked it.

After discussing the advertisement with some senior editors, Alan Rusbridger, the Guardian’s editor-in-chief, said that while it was very difficult, on balance he decided that it should run for the following reasons:

• Advertisers ought to be able to pay to place material in newspapers which the newspapers themselves disagree with or even deplore.

• He believed there was a strong argument in terms of freedom of speech “which is doubtless why the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, New York Observer and Washington Post all printed it”.

• The advertisement was judged to be within the ASA guidelines.

He also said that the Guardian had traditionally always believed in giving people a voice in circumstances where other newspapers “would run a mile”.

“I think most Guardian readers expect that from us and appreciate it. We don’t agree with it [the advertisement], and don’t endorse it - like much of the advertising in the paper,” he said.

 

[J Ed]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/aug/25/beyonce-flawless-feminist-vmas

Beyoncé, in the midst of an epic 15 minute medley at Sunday night’s MTV Video Music awards, performed her song “Flawless” in front of a giant screen blazoned with the word “FEMINIST”. And, as in her music video, the superstar sampled author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s speech on feminism and expectations for girls.

The zeitgeist is irrefutably feminist: its name literally in bright lights.

As feminism’s star has ascended, so has the number of celebrities willing to lend their name to the movement. Feminism is no longer “the f-word”, it’s the realm of cool kids: Beyoncé, Lena Dunham, Amy Poehler, Kerry Washington and Joseph Gordon-Levitt all call themselves feminists. And just this week, after years of equivocating,Taylor Swift came out as a feminist.

Being a 1% millionaire is a little bit feminism, why do these liberal dickheads confuse vague platitudes and lifestyle advertising with principles?

 

[DotCommunist]

because for them thats all it is

 

[butchersapron]

Get the message: feminism/whatever is for the cool kids. Be cool. Don't be a loner. Don't be bullied. Don't be weird. Don't be different.

What sort of message is this?

 

[ViolentPanda]

Get the message: feminism/whatever is for the cool kids. Be cool. Don't be a loner. Don't be bullied. Don't be weird. Don't be different.

What sort of message is this?

This sort:

 

[brogdale]

Downshifting from Ocado to Lidl to try and save money ... but at what price?

The horror! The horror!

 

[ViolentPanda]

Yep. It's playing out just as many anti-Zionist Jews said it would 60 years ago. I've just been reading the diaries of Victor Klemperer: a Jew living under the Nazis. He has absolutely no doubts about equating Zionism with Nazism, he makes the parallel repeatedly and vehemently. Which considering where and who he was is really saying something.

Thanks for reminding me about Klemperer's diaries. I've been meaning to read them, but they've never quite made the "to read" pile until now.

 

[phildwyer]

Thanks for reminding me about Klemperer's diaries. I've been meaning to read them, but they've never quite made the "to read" pile until now.

Definitely worth a read. His hatred of Zionism surprised me, but he's being scrupulously consistent, and says they're racists just like the Nazis. And although he was certainly no Communist, indeed an impeccable liberal in every way, he spent fifteen years as an MP in East Germany. A contradictory time he lived in.

 

[phildwyer]

Get the message: feminism/whatever is for the cool kids. Be cool. Don't be a loner. Don't be bullied. Don't be weird. Don't be different.

What sort of message is this?

My creed in a nutshell.

 

[butchersapron]

Bring backs the means test (for the poor, not for me)! demands privately educated and oxbridge guardian liberal. It's for their own good, that's why i'm saying it. It's concern for the poor.

 

[The Pale King]

Bring backs the means test (for the poor, not for me)! demands privately educated and oxbridge guardian liberal. It's for their own good, that's why i'm saying it. It's concern for the poor.

Yep. Some nice stuff here:

"In 2010, at the first Conservative conference after the coalition’s election “victory”, I was on a panel with Alison Garnham, head of the Child Poverty Action Group, Anand Shukla, then head of the Daycare trust, and Charlotte Vere, once a Conservative candidate, then about to become the head of the Girls’ Schools Association. It stuck in my mind because nobody turned up; the title was something about child poverty, and it clashed with something about Europe, and genuinely, as God and three well-respected charity heads are my witness, not one single Conservative showed (there were a couple of people there from other charities)."

Shows you where she's coming from at least.

"And yet I’m coming to realise the sad undertow of this story, which is that things have become so bad I wouldn’t make a defence for any universal benefit at the moment. The solidarity argument of universalism used to be heartwarming. But now all it does is emphasise the erosion of security at the bottom, the erosion of the social promise that nobody has to starve and everybody deserves a roof over their head – and how fast and brutal it has been."

This is how liberals will destroy the welfare state - not in anger but in sorrow.

 

[butchersapron]

Fantastic last line there.