Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

she no longer publishes her antisemitism or racism because eventually she might get a more serious sentence

Having lived for decades as a recluse in her two properties in St Tropez, unable to go out without being harassed by fans and paparazzi, she has developed, says her biographer, "a rather distorted view of the world", concentrating only on her foundation for the protection and welfare of animals."

the fixation on animal welfare would explain why

she also contrasted her close gay friends with today's homosexuals, who "jiggle their bottoms, put their little fingers in the air and with their little castrato voices moan about what those ghastly heteros put them through"

and

Bardot's book also condemned miscegenation

and

compared her own beliefs with previous generations who had "given their lives to push out invaders".[36]

and

said, in reference to Muslims, that she was "fed up with being under the thumb of this population which is destroying us, destroying our country and imposing its habits".

what a cunt!

crossword app is fucked >:-(

Oasis changed our lives
Metallica's Lars Ulrich and Maccabees' Felix White say 20 years ago Oasis altered their perceptions of music

Crossword still buggered.

next level
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/oct/04/i-married-myself-wedding

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMQyZKS8yAI

Sparks to thread

Re xword I actually sent them an email & they told me that this is a known bug affecting iOS 7 users & they are working on a fix but if I update to iOS 8 I should have no problems

I think the latest update to the app also said it fixed it.

Yeah, that fixed it for me.

(Upgrading to 8, I mean.)

Just sitting there in the room and thinking, “Wow, all these people have come all this way today to celebrate me marrying myself!” was very humbling.

Humbling. That's the word for when you make up an entire event about loving yourself.

dnrsvpiyhm

does not really seem very p... in your humble m... (/ if you h... me?)

nope, can't do it

something something something something something something something you have mail

I've made up for the broken crossword app anyways

do not robin s. van persie if you hate me

Can someone tell me why the TV listings have gone?

noerttvltbfttg

:D

Marrying oneself was a fucking Jam sketch fifteen years ago ofc

Do not RSVP if you hate marriage of me to myself

xword app is fixed as alba said (eff updating to iOS 8 tbh)

thank god a uk media organization is able to give all of this vital american cultural politics content to the world

Renée Zellweger's face is her brand – a new look will change her career beyond recognition
22 Oct 2014: Steve Rose:

Nothing's wrong with Renee Zellweger's face. There's something wrong with us
22 Oct 2014: Jennifer Gerson Uffalussy

Renée Zellweger's new look due to 'happy, healthy lifestyle', not surgery
22 Oct 2014: Xan Brooks

It's not unreasonable to ask where the real Renée Zellweger has gone
2 hours ago: Viv Groskop

loooool

I despair

all the Zellweger that's fit to print

Jessica Valenti

Taylor Swift in the Blank Space video is the woman we've been waiting for

Most overrated

Gravity

Sorry, that is just how I fell.

Series: Jess Zimmerman column

Is keeping up with what's viral stressing you out? It's not your fault

DennisMcScumbag commented on Julien Blanc barred from entering UK.
19 Nov 2014 8:48pm

I am sure he considered it.

And Julien Blanc was not racist or encouraging sexual assault.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2014/nov/19/myleene-klass-ed-miliband-six-slapdowns

(and the author's part in the comments section seems a bit tragic, too)

http://www.theguardian.com/travel/2014/nov/21/night-blackpool-broadway-hotel-tripadvisor

No worries though, it was buried in a full page report on p5 of the main news section.

Does anyone else get strange things happening when they open the home page in Safari? The pictures are often under the wrong stories. It's great!

http://i.imgur.com/mHoT0NZ.jpg

he may be understood but at least he has one friend

i get the same thing, it's one of the few joys in looking at the news each morning

That's brilliant

further indignity heaped on poor old Gordon as well

So the NME did an uncharacteristically excellent feature on the UK DIY music scene a few weeks ago. Lots of great bands and promoters featured, individual locales got well observed and excellently researched coverage, a few of the bands covered have been going on for a decade or more with nary a mention in any nationwide press. It was a moment to savour for those of us who have any pride or involvement in UK DIY.

So it's good that The Guardian saw fit to do the same, you'd think? Well, it would've been, if they didn't just effectively reprint the same bands/venues/promoters/info/towns, without acknowledging or giving credit to the relevant journalists, in fact you'd think Gwilym Mumford had done all the work himself. Pretty fucking shoddy, Guardian. Why not give the (excellent) writers behind the piece some work, or at least some credit.

link?

n/m I found it

That's 13 years now the Guardian has been, if you will, 'worse than it used to be'.

It was still a pile of wank in the Manchester Guardian years, it is a faulty premise for a thread title.

Are you suggesting that a pile of wank is the worst the universe has to offer?

Was just reading a WW1 book and read how similarly appallingly full of shit/gung ho the MG was to the right wing press at the time. Albeit one written by a loathsome prick who writes for the Telegraph!

Carl Fogarty wins I’m A Celebrity
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this is one of the 12 most important stories apparently

the manchester guardian was more sceptical of the case for war than the conservative press press prior to and during the july crisis

The Manchester Guardian declared that Britain was in no danger of being dragged into the Austro-Serbian conflict by ‘treaties of alliance’ and famously announced that Manchester cared for Belgrade as little as Belgrade cared for Manchester.