Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

NEXT

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

I had not expected the logical conclusion of 'domestic/emotional work is labour' to be 'it's fine for state employees to have separate full time jobs' but hats off to whoever comissioned her to write 250 words of reminiscences about it.

it misses the point on so many levels it reads like satire

tbf Katharine Whitehorn was born in 1793.

She is one of those Fleet Street legends who, I imagine, the Observer might find it hard to say "time for this column to end" to.

Who is she? I've never heard of her, and I'm familiar with far more shit hacks than I care to be

She has been a columnist since the '60s and is half pioneer, half Polly Filla.

she's written about etiquette and changing social mores since time immemorial -- her first book, "cookery in a bedsitter", is as old as i am

somewhere i have a copy of "whitehorn's social survival" (from 1968), which i remember thinking was funny and sensible back when i was a kid (tho i probably responded more to the mel calman cartoons than her writing)

a bad day when you learn nothing new huh

She's the same KW who wrote Cooking in a Bedsitter? Well I never.

kw in the 60s:
http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44903000/jpg/_44903405_whitehorn_getty_466.jpg

Looks more like the 50s.

it does and i think it probably is (photo by bert hardy)

1956, apparently

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1123153/Can-EVER-love-Four-leading-novelists-tell-stories-youthful-passion.html

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/20/robots-racist-sexist-people-machines-ai-language

Maciej Ceglowski quote very good

lol so they *can* hear him

https://twitter.com/Pinboard/status/852583298014564352

peter bradshaw devotes 1,600 words of laser-focused insight today to the radical notion that the star wars series might in fact be... a soap opera?

fuck sake brian get it together

*peter obv

I don't buy it, soap operas are hugely popular and have zero emotional stakes because their plotlines endlessly rewrite their own past in order to maintain fan service

*golf clap*

i wish i had the required video skills to create a return of the jedi finale where luke pops off vader's helmet and is greeted by a wheezing phil mitchell

supreme leader snoke turns out to be a digital recreation of hilda ogden

What is this for

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/may/13/a-letter-to-my-parents-whose-favouritism-ripped-our-family-apart?CMP=twt_gu

For all the abuse the Guardian gets, I don't think it has ever scraped these levels:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/business-39896838/a-cheaper-tastier-way-to-eat-lunch-at-work

How making a sandwich rather than buying a pre-packed one is a "life hack".

The idea came to me when I went to buy my usual lunch on my work break. I could buy my same old sandwich... OR... all the ingredients are in the supermarket for me to construct my own one."

mmm tasty

sounds so close to lg in full satire mode that really theres no point anymore

Graun really desperate to get some of that lunch money right?

whilst at the same time making a very convincing case for not giving it to them

Digital storyteller for @BBCNews: #WorldHacks, @BBCtrending. #mojo evangelist. Creator: #CEOSecrets,

Not simply a life hack but a #worldhack.

#CEOSecrets

#CEOSecrets 1. paying taxes is for suckers

a bit of the old trenchant social commentary there

assumed CEO stood for Cheese, Egg, Onion

One good thing about music
When it hits you feel no pain
So hit me with music
Hit me with music now
Hit me with music, hit me with music
Look at that, Trenchant rock
I say don't watch that, Trenchant rock
If you big fish or sprat, Trenchant rock
You reap what you sow, Trenchant rock
And everyone know now, Trenchant rock

- Bob Marley

the idea came to me as i was tying my shoelaces. why had no one invented shoes without laces, i asked? this report sheds light on the truth - someone has.

a good journalist finds stories all around him!

it could be something as simple as eating a sandwich! not all journalism is woodward and bernstein!

Full disclosure: I was secretly hoping someone who actually does read the Guardian would point out to me they already had done a similar feature.

Although I did find this:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/jul/05/how-to-eat-a-sausage-sandwich

Split your sausages lengthways. This will allow you to build thorough, corrugated sausage coverage.

That Favouritism thing.. is funny.

Father's role in society is to provide help and assistance to their daughters, you can see it in the adverts: Dad buys Daughter a car to help her through uni, she's all "thank you dad you I love" - Sons, at best, get a dad to help them fix the motor that they bought themselves.

That's not meant as a generalisation, that's how it's presented and that's how some are expected to fall into place.

My dad identified so strongly with my sister, it was like every achievement she made or any positive character facet was something that he liked to assign to himself - Not exactly "chip off the old block" but almost more that he modified himself after the event.

Of course, she got a boyf, and all those things came crashing down. Foreign, flashy, all he was after was a passport to live in the UK. (They were hugely similar in a lot of ways, but.) He refused to do anything to do with the Wedding, but he still made the speech, etc. like there was nothing wrong.

Anyway, they had a son, they eventually got divo, they had a hard time of it and a lot of it was their own doing. But that was almost the point where he decided she was less of a paragon of his own virtue, and more a deluded idiot that fell for a flashy swine that had ulterior motives.

Anyway, you'll never guess what happened next.

You're right, I can't