It seems odd that the article doesn't mention that her husband died in January.
― trishyb, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:13 (three weeks ago) link
xp lol just came here to post that.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:18 (three weeks ago) link
So odd, what does she want to achieve by writing this piece.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 20 May 2024 14:20 (three weeks ago) link
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.
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 14:22 (three weeks ago) link
Gee, I wonder why it didn't work out?
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:27 (three weeks ago) link
Look the heart wants what the heart wants. And that guy's 71 year old heart wanted 38 year old Lucretia van Grundlesnuff
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:30 (three weeks ago) link
Hopefully there's a Grundlesnuff out there for everybody
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Monday, 20 May 2024 15:43 (three weeks ago) link
You can’t complain about the results! 97!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Monday, 20 May 2024 16:45 (three weeks ago) link
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
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 27 May 2024 05:55 (two weeks ago) link
Also teh Grauniad: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/12/want-to-fight-climate-change-have-fewer-childrenYou don’t say
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Monday, 27 May 2024 05:57 (two weeks ago) link
Are Guardian readers worse than they used to be?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/03/society-is-unequal-but-this-is-regressive-parents-on-private-school-fee-vat-plans-labour
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Monday, 3 June 2024 11:21 (one week ago) link
The wailing is delicious tbh
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 June 2024 11:47 (one week ago) link
I think SEND places might be exempt but also ‘I’m left wing but…’ 🤮
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Monday, 3 June 2024 12:56 (one week ago) link
“My two children both have autism and ADHD, but the state sector denied their needs,”
true, but in my experience when there is no SEND school/college in the council district that meets a student's needs then they can't turn you down for EHCP funding for the nearest school or college that does. If SEND is exempt, then this person is muddying the issue here + needs to STFU immediately!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 3 June 2024 13:19 (one week ago) link
They probably spoke up without being across the policy detail or just having a bourgeois whinge, big surprise.
― guillotine vogue (suzy), Monday, 3 June 2024 13:37 (one week ago) link
I noticed before that their Scottish football correspondent really isn't very good. He is getting money for old rope, like this on John McGinn:
John McGinn has risen from humble beginnings in Clydebank to captain Aston Villa in the Premier League and become the darling of the Tartan Army. It perhaps helps McGinn that he has no playing connection with either half of the Old Firm, hence this tribal footballing nation can adore him without condition. He is a working-class boy, made good.
Is John McGinn really the darling of the Tartan Army? If he is it's news to me. Also I'm not sure how many of the Scotland Euro Squad aren't working class boys but I'm guessing not many? I do know that none of the rest of the squad's "humble beginnings" include being the grandson of the Chairman of Celtic (what was that about Old Firm connections?) and President of the Scottish Football Association.
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Friday, 7 June 2024 12:34 (one week ago) link
https://i.postimg.cc/2Ss4QG9F/Screenshot-20240608-085226-Chrome.jpg
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 June 2024 12:58 (six days ago) link
One spark of radicalism has come from the shadow health minister, Wes Streeting. He has dared to advocate an alliance of the NHS with the booming private health sector. But to reform the NHS root and branch must go beyond party politics, and might conceivably embrace elements of insurance and payment, particularly in the area of wellness and prevention. But to work this requires a drastic restructuring under a cross-party consensus. Is Labour up to this?
The private health sector, booming into your bank balance soon. "Wellness and prevention" = it's your fault so pay up, losers.
― prog's nearly man (Matt #2), Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:09 (six days ago) link
tbf this sort of thing is pretty much why they employ Simon Jenkins
― Poets Win Prizes (Tom D.), Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:16 (six days ago) link
He’s so utterly deranged. I started reading him in the runup to the Iraq war, on which he was very good, so I formed an inaccurate picture of him as a sensible person
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:24 (six days ago) link
This is top tier shitposting tbf, gotta salute
― i love a man in a unicorn (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:42 (six days ago) link
Simon Jenkins is a floating voter?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:46 (six days ago) link
No, that's an accidental spoonerism by the subeditor
― hiroyoshi tins in (Sgt. Biscuits), Saturday, 8 June 2024 13:57 (six days ago) link
lmao
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 8 June 2024 19:17 (six days ago) link
:)))
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 8 June 2024 21:52 (six days ago) link
Thread delivers.
― Chewshabadoo, Sunday, 9 June 2024 21:06 (five days ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/11/royal-academy-summer-exhibition-2024-review-london
"Pampered pets, polite portraits and enough wan landscapes to fill a field – this show mirrors the numbed, aimless condition of Britain after 14 years of Tory misrule"
art in keith's Britain will be amazing! Can't wait
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 12:42 (three days ago) link
this would be the same jonathan jones who managed to file numerous anti-corbyn articles in the mid-2010s despite being an arts correspondent would it
― katy perry (prison service) (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:05 (three days ago) link
the RA summer show is always garbage and always has been a showcase for posh mediocrities with a hobby.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:41 (three days ago) link
I know, but I love the implication it was good before 2010.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:44 (three days ago) link
thought the bump would be about thishttps://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/11/europe-right-immigration-britain-nigel-farage-rishi-sunak
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 13:52 (three days ago) link
Not so much a useful idiot as a plain old useless idiot.
― ILX: a violent left-wing mob who hate our country (Tom D.), Tuesday, 11 June 2024 14:15 (three days ago) link
On the left is The Guardian refusing to use any pronouns for Lia Thomas. On the right is The Times that genders her correctly throughout. pic.twitter.com/sevbtC8Ma0— Lee Hurley (@HLeeHurley) June 13, 2024
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 June 2024 18:20 (yesterday) link