Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

Fuck sake.

62% in two years in Lewisham? Fuxake

By the time the Bakerloo line extends there it'll be worth a couple of Latvias.

downsizing is prob hot coffeestation chat as they mothball the berliner presses tbf

That is an excellent sentence even if I did read it three times wondering how deforestation came into it

Bizarre puff piece about Louise Mensch, who has been retweeting every half-baked conspiracy theory for the last five months.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ties-media-scoop?CMP=share_btn_tw

on the frontpage of the website right now - do not want
https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2017/03/08/MayLaughCommons.gif

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/02/the-lost-generation-credit-crunch-thirtysomething-brokebroke

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A generally good line of argument, but undermined in classic Guardian-style by:

My mum gave us a £12,000 deposit, plus £2,000 to pay off my credit card, and my wife and I bought a house in a middle-class suburb of Newcastle for £150,000. Just after we moved in, my wife had a second baby and I got a job at a local magazine, working four days a week, with a day off for childcare. It was paid work, but I was earning under £20,000 a year. After considering my future, I decided I’d like more money in it. So I contacted a university lecturer about teaching, took their advice and enrolled on a Masters.

your wife had a second baby and you are only working 4 days a week?

The wife was working?

We arrived in Newcastle. My wife had a baby. She wanted to buy a house, but I was making £6,000 a year freelancing (three days a week; two days’ childcare) and writing a book, so we didn’t have enough.

lol and this guy asks his mom for money instead of finding a full-time job

HE WAS TRYING TO WRITE A BOOK YOU MEAN JERK

true his weekends are devoted to writing this book. what about leisure time?

hilariously, that book was titled "You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life"

Yeah really not convinced this guy was a victim of the credit crunch particularly, just generally a hapless decision-maker (and in a more privileged position than he seems to realise)? Did he mention in the 2010 article how was affected by it? Unfortunately the people he really needs to convince otherwise would not be at all swayed by what he's written.

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/10/osborne-juggling-jobs-is-what-women-have-always-done

I think they have given up.

tbf Katharine Whitehorn was born in 1793.

But if it’s a question of the difficulty of doing two demanding jobs

it's not

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although tbf i'd quite like a column about how women are capable of being every bit as ethically compromised as men, actually