Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

In the end, they give us their deaths quite as much as their works, and that is why they are so passionately mourned.

QED

Deborah Orr is so terrible

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/30/donald-trump-personality-disorders-learn-minds-work

A fair number of people are implacably opposed to seeing any hope for the future after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. But there’s one good reason to be hopeful. Many observers saw quite quickly that Trump’s personality was highly disordered. People with yet more dangerous personality disorders have gained power many times in human history – probably far more often than not. This time, however, the phenomenon is being scrutinised on those terms. The opportunity for everyone to learn a lot about this domineering, exploitative, unstable and superficially charismatic personality type has presented itself on a grand scale.

that is a bad premise for a column, but the it somehow gets worse

A New Zealand study reported earlier this month that “high social cost” adults could be predicted from as young as three from a 45-minute survey of their brain. It has long been known that early intervention is important for vulnerable children. But the Dunedin Longitudinal study is a real wake-up call. It signposts how catching early developmental problems and helping children develop their minds more fully is of benefit to all of society, if only we have the will.

ruok deb

maybe put them in some kind of camp or something idk

Clickbait alert

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/dec/31/a-letter-to-all-of-the-premissive-parents-today?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

typo in url...

the number of levels of wrongness and dishonesty and stupidity are pretty impressive tbh

I have bought the Guardian today. I often do!

So far I have only read the soccer pages. They're fine except for an ungrammatical headline about Everton's proposed move to a new stadium.

Also, on a similar theme, Daniel Taylor's THFC report of our victory mainly stresses the fact that it won't be so good once we move to a new stadium.

Come to think of it I really dislike Taylor. I suppose the Guardian isn't as good as it used to be.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C1vAnkVXAAI26JF.jpg

"So it is not that Streep’s words are not true and important – they are – the thing is to understand how they are framed and understood. She is an Oscar winner calling out a reality TV star. She is a citizen calling the president-elect a bully. She is, by virtue of her success, part of an elite and yet Trump – who lives in a gold tower, who is not actually a self-made man – is really the voice of the elite."

Yes?

I dnt think Streep is the first person 2 forcefully criticize Trump.

who is this fucking idiot?

https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2017/jan/10/why-baftas-frontrunner-ken-loach-i-daniel-blake-may-betray-its-own-cause

sorry, i always fall for their commentisfree/blog/nottheactualnewspaper cheap trolling

I think Loach is a poor film maker and there is an element of fare like Daniel Blake being liberal comfort food. But this cunt is trying to suggest that life way below the poverty line isn't that bad at all, they obv have extensive insider knowledge on this to be so sure of such a shite opinion. But yeah it is just more click-shite, albeit very Mail type views in this case.

David Cox is master of the "ppl think this thing is good. BUT is it in fact *bad*?" take:

Why British Baftas frontrunner I, Daniel Blake may betray its own cause
Ken Loach’s drama leads the field of homegrown contenders at next month’s awards. But does its attack on the way welfare works undermine the principles on which the system depends?

Bigger picture Why 'Slumnag Millionaire' movie Dark Horse is a political object lesson
An unlikely Welsh villagers’ project to train a racehorse pits the values of the left against the doctrines of the right. But though this documentary may look like Pride, its moral is not in lockstep

Bigger picture Gone Girl revamps gender stereotypes – for the worse
Gillian Flynn feels both book and film advance the female cause. Yet Rosamund Pike’s Amy may harm perceptions of women, although not for the reasons you might expect

Film blog Are female action heroes good role models for young women?
From Katniss Everdeen to Lisbeth Salander, today's film heroines kick butt. But are violent on-screen women empowering or oppressive, asks David Cox

I'm reliably informed that Gone Girl is dreadful about women, but that IDB article is such trash I'll assume he's gotten the wrong end of that stick as well

That is a very good set of evidence soref !

well you see, Gone Girl is dreadful about women, "but not for the reasons you might expect"

ok, I'll stop now but:

Is Enough Said in films about the dangers of obesity?

Nicole Holofcener's comedy featuring an oversized romantic hero, played by James Gandolfini, implies that being fat is an external irrelevance. We wouldn't say the same about anorexia

Nice work if you can get it. No 'gorging cold beans from the can' for this talented fellow.

The Gone Girl article seems pretty on-point, which makes this new one all the more baffling

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I couldn't imagine Loach's IDB being anywhere near as moving as Stéphane Brizé's The Measure of a Man, but apart some of his early tv work and Kes I have a serious Loach aversion.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jan/19/why-i-sent-oxford-university-rejection-letter

"it is an amazing feeling to realise that so many people are enjoying my email"

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2017/jan/31/from-spud-to-slimane-how-trainspotting-helped-invent-the-skinny-jean

And people get paid for that stuff?

is that really that bad? just seems kind of light.

c.7 pages on TRUMP PRESIDENCY in the news pages of the print Guardian yesterday - I read through them all. Good factual reporting, journalistic standards, bits of expert analysis. This is all separate from any CiF pieces.

The Guardian still has good points.

(xp) It's garbage from start to finish.

Wow, Amitav Ghosh writing environmental articles

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jan/31/bay-bengal-depleted-fish-stocks-pollution-climate-change-migration

Oh yeah, guess he did write that book about climate change. Not sure I'm ready to tackle that one right now.

Downsizing Guardian style today

Housing crisis: the empty nester's guide to downsizing

Jo Somerset and Liz Clarke, Chorlton, Manchester
Six-bedroom house to three-bedroom house (plus a London crashpad)

Three years ago, with all the children in work or at university, the couple finally sold their six-bedroom, four-storey, semi-detached house in Chorlton south Manchester, and moved to a three-bedroom terraced house around the corner. There was some money leftover to put towards a small flat in London, a crashpad for Somerset while she did a postgraduate certificate in history at Birkbeck.

As so often with the guardian, my comment has to be 'is this some kind of fucking joke'?

Oh the humanity!

The opinions of Jonathan Jones

http://i.imgur.com/f5vlQXA.jpg

Is he still apologizing for being a Marxist while at Cantab?

https://twitter.com/poundstoremike/status/829316802232610817

I've got to include a couple more choice quotes from those property "downsizing" tossers in the Guardian:

"Their offspring, now aged 23 to 28, are barred from considering the pied a terre in the capital as their family space (“They’ve all asked and we’ve said no to them all. You let one and then they’d all want to use it.”). The children are welcome to stay in the spare bedroom of the new Chorlton house if they don’t treat it like a hotel. “They have to be in by midnight. We want them to respect our lifestyle...."

and, you can just sense the entitlement radiating from them with this one:

"That was the right house for that period in our lives. Now we have the right house for the lives we lead today.”

A pox on them.

dear "barred" offspring, your parents' generation are the reason you or at least many others of your generation will be stuck paying extortionate rent and wondering if having a child is feasible in a tiny studio flat until your ovaries shrivel and it's too late

and every time you mention this on the phone to them they'll just say "oh well we didn't have our life all worked out when we had you either, what are you waiting for" or "the Moldovan couple next door to you have two kids in the same size flat, you're just being prissy" or "if only you didn't eat out occasionally I'm sure you'd save a hundred grand for a deposit in no time"

flat screen telly and a mobile phone too no doubt

when i was born my parents rented a 2 bedroom flat in the working-class east end of glasgow neighborhood of riddrie. they paid the equivalent of 62 pounds a month.

In the early '90s a friend bought an incredible tenement flat on Gallowgate. SIX THOUSAND POUNDS!

I regret to inform you The Guardian is at it again.

‘We didn't even have room for a table’: meet the 30-somethings fleeing London

As the government admits England’s housing market is ‘broken’, we speak to homeowners and tenants who say they cannot afford to stay in the capital

Emily Settle, 34, and her husband Jonathan, 36, left London two years ago with their daughter Tabitha, four, and son Douglas, two. “We were living in a four-bedroom terraced house in Lewisham [south-east London] but had always planned on moving out to the countryside so we could raise our children there and be closer to family,” says Emily.

“I was working at a ‘magic circle’ law firm as a corporate lawyer and, while I was very happy at work, working in the City can put a strain on family life.”

The couple’s London home had gone up 62% in value over the two years they had owned it. This enabled them to buy an eight-bedroom, Grade II-listed house in the Cotswolds near a good state school. “We increased our mortgage and went for the forever house. It’s a long-term commitment.”

By inviting an au pair to live with them, they managed to offset their larger mortgage payments against a reduction in their childcare bills. They have also kept their commuting costs down. Jonathan, a software inventor for IBM, began working from home full-time, coordinating his working hours with colleagues in the US and childcare routines. Emily joined law firm Foot Anstey, an entrepreneurial firm that supported her decision to work flexibly from a variety of locations, including her home.

aw bless, they invited an au pair to live with them

did they also save on energy bills by basking in the warm glow of their smugness?

Is that from the special weekend boasting supplement? Or the self-clowning one?

"emily settle"

fake news

"emily settle and her husband jonathan goode-mortgage"

"Software inventor"

Gonna put that on my cv