Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

not sure what the reaction is supposed to be to this except "good, off you fuck then"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

I hope someone organizes a mob to chuck rotting fruit and vegetables at him as he boards the plane to leave the UK (hopefully never to return).

the case they are making for him being a net benefit to the UK seems to be

* he's a landlord
* he was going to list his company on the FTSE

oh no sir please don't leave us and take all the money that you don't pay any tax on with you, whatever will we do without you

good that the Guardian's "Wealth Correspondent" is asking all the tough questions to our feckless playboy billionaire overlords

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet-review-proto-punk-star-comic-at-his-70s-peak

At the Dublin show, a heckler shouts “IRA!” and Connolly replies acidly: “I’d love to hear you say that at Ibrox [Rangers’ stadium in Glasgow] …!” It’s amazing, from this modern perspective, to experience again how sectarianism was a violent and normalised fact of life in the 70s.

Talk about living in a London media bubble!

that is actually insane, even for the guardian.

In Belfast, Connolly prudently drops any material about the Troubles, perhaps because he simply and understandably doesn’t want to take the risk.

Or it could possibly be because he didn't have any, except maybe the song about when he was in the Terries.

When he arrives at Belfast airport, Connolly chats amiably to soldiers from 15th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, which he was once with as a Terrritorial Army reserve, and we hear his melancholy song about this on stage, Weekend Soldier‚ easily the best part of his show.

Oh look, that one.

Yeah because there's no way that would be interpreted as taking sides.

or his long, well documented history of sycophantic royal brownnosing

LOL like any comedian from Glasgow was going to have "material" about the Troubles. You'd may as well paint a target on your forehead.

Ok, can't get past the name

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/20/family-events-why-i-quit-step-children-accept-me

I'm a total a-hole and quite shockingly my stepchildren don't like me, nor want to know me and I don't care - seems to be the gist of it

"Lucretia Grindle Lutyens" lol

she literally had no choice but to be an evil stepmother with that name

“It is extremely difficult to take on board the reality that the people we love deeply have pasts in which we play no role.”

is it though???

Very bizarre.

Guardian op ed writers do tend to have issues with understanding the existence of human consciousnesses other than their own, it must be something in their water supply

It seems odd that the article doesn't mention that her husband died in January.

xp lol just came here to post that.

So odd, what does she want to achieve by writing this piece.

xpost At 97!

So if she was 38 when they married, he would have been... 71!

His kids would likely have been around her own age.

Gee, I wonder why it didn't work out?

Look the heart wants what the heart wants. And that guy's 71 year old heart wanted 38 year old Lucretia van Grundlesnuff

Hopefully there's a Grundlesnuff out there for everybody

You can’t complain about the results! 97!

Oh great a long-form piece about effective altruism. This won’t be mainly be an exercise in normalizing reactionary framing will it? Surely it will touch on some actual issues like say, the climate crisis? No? Oh ok.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/article/2024/may/25/american-pronatalists-malcolm-and-simone-collins

Also teh Grauniad:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-children

You don’t say