Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

oh no sir please don't leave us and take all the money that you don't pay any tax on with you, whatever will we do without you

good that the Guardian's "Wealth Correspondent" is asking all the tough questions to our feckless playboy billionaire overlords

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet-review-proto-punk-star-comic-at-his-70s-peak

At the Dublin show, a heckler shouts “IRA!” and Connolly replies acidly: “I’d love to hear you say that at Ibrox [Rangers’ stadium in Glasgow] …!” It’s amazing, from this modern perspective, to experience again how sectarianism was a violent and normalised fact of life in the 70s.

Talk about living in a London media bubble!

that is actually insane, even for the guardian.

In Belfast, Connolly prudently drops any material about the Troubles, perhaps because he simply and understandably doesn’t want to take the risk.

Or it could possibly be because he didn't have any, except maybe the song about when he was in the Terries.

When he arrives at Belfast airport, Connolly chats amiably to soldiers from 15th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, which he was once with as a Terrritorial Army reserve, and we hear his melancholy song about this on stage, Weekend Soldier‚ easily the best part of his show.

Oh look, that one.

Yeah because there's no way that would be interpreted as taking sides.

or his long, well documented history of sycophantic royal brownnosing

LOL like any comedian from Glasgow was going to have "material" about the Troubles. You'd may as well paint a target on your forehead.