Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

apart from everything else, why not have one of the guardian's unpaid interns write the piece?

in terms of reliance on unpaid [via the bank of mum and dad] upper-middle-class labour, you can't beat the media

Come back Max G0garty, all is forgiven

That's a small profile as part of a larger spread surely? If so, don't see what's wrong with it. I mean, it's not particularly illuminating but those things never are. It's not really a Max Gogarty situation and a comments box pile-on would feel kind of dickish.

Oh it's in the higher education section. What exactly were you expecting?

it isn't terrible, but at the same time

it will be pretty depressing trying to find a job and living at home with their parents. [...] I've signed up for lots of websites and recruitment agencies, but there's nothing that fits what I want to do – just administrative jobs and call centres.

ehh, suck it up princess. it was exactly the same when i graduated back in the comparative boom time of 2001, and i took shitty admin jobs to make rent. tbqh i don't think i've ever found something that fits what i want to do + pays a living wage lol.

Come on, like you didn't whine about it at the time?

"Back in the comparative boom time of 2001, i took shitty admin jobs to make rent, but you try telling kids that today and they laugh in your face..."

i whined (not in a national newspaper) that i had a shit job, but i didn't feel entitled to better just by dint of having got a degree. i turned down an unpaid internship -- that, this is how they get you, could have turned into something nudge nudge -- because i was indie. most people would call that a mistake, but i dunno, still pondering that one.

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lol. £6 an hour, i was on. with my education.

Are we really going to single someone out for a double-barreled name? A young person carrying one of those around in the 21st century could just as easily be from a lower-middle-class West Indian family. ARGH, PEOPLE.

Turning down 'work experience' is not 'indie' - it's principled. I did expenses-paid internships *while I was on my course* in addition to retail and admin work, but once I graduated, there was no way in Hell I would agree to generate revenue/do a job of work for an employer without being paid for that work (besides, if I were working for free and made the company any sum of money at all, I'd wanna whip my hand out so fast). The promise made by many people trying to get people half my age to work for free - 'you'll get paid work soon on the back of this sort of thing' - is more than a bit disingenuous, because that promise doesn't feature a hand-into-pocket action on the part of the promiser.

hydes smug sanctimony is horrendous. but the way she always overloads a lot of her writing to make it more dense makes it even harder to slog through.

also Victoria McKendrick-Ness should have studied harder and got a first.

My favourite Guardian article ever

^^^ Awesome.

I think they're all from James Delingpole.

like not thomas de quincey level but for sure better than david brooks or shaun custis

― nakhchivan, Monday, 5 July 2010 15:00 (Yesterday) Bookmark

Hahah, Shaun Custis! Fond memories of Jimmy Hill's Sunday Supplement are flooding back to me

Hang on hang on hang on-

Whilst reading the Guardian Guide today (well, someone Of This Parish was doing the singles column this week) - noticed something a bit... untoward going on in the One Last Thing interview.

So this is the same Guardian newspaper that last week, had a massive front page article taking The Times and AA Gill to task, quite rightly, for calling Clare Balding a "dyke on a bike" - that this week, on the last page, is engaging in a puerile sniggerfest about an actor's use of the word "bender" in a recent movie.

I understand that the front page news section and the Guide have different editors and different tones, but isn't this a bit... you know... hypocritical?

that last page feature is always, always terrible, and obnoxious in a way that the writer's wit can't support

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2010/aug/11/jay-z-hymn-to-modernity

this is dreadful

the guy doesn't even realize how much a tool he is of the capitalist status quo. intellectually lost. also that jay-z song fucking sucks and it's hecka old anyway.

yeah wtf 'this summer's theme tune'?

well at least he mentions marshall berman - "all that is solid" is a great book

prob should have used 'me no speak americano' as a summer anthem of resistance to US culture-capitalist-imperialism. Could still segue into a boost for Berman. Don't think it would/could be any more awkward a leap.

like most writers i think he has difficulties distinguishing modernity from modernism -- and they are hard to disentangle, but the cheerleader approach to modernity isn't a gl imo

The era of antibiotics is coming to a close. In just a couple of generations, what once appeared to be miracle medicines have been beaten into ineffectiveness by the bacteria they were designed to knock out. Once, scientists hailed the end of infectious diseases. Now, the post-antibiotic apocalypse is within sight.

sHyperbole? Unfortunately not.

I don't know how Sarah Boseley gets through the day really.

Fckd up the link - if you want to be depressed/scared/laugh in the face of adversity it's here - http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/12/the-end-of-antibiotics-health-infections

People take far too many antibiotics. Then when they *really* need them, the drugs don't work.

Fair enough, but 'apocalypse' not being hyperbole?

People take far too many antibiotics. Then when they *really* need them, the drugs don't work.

This isn't really the problem. The problem is people taking them for things that they are useless for (viral infections and the like), not taking enough of them (take every last pill in that bottle, folks, even if you feel fine), and taking the wrong ones (another reason to finish that prescription and not save them for later). Places like Mexico that have them OTC have much, much higher rates of antibiotic resistance than we do.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/aug/18/hiv-nadja-benaissa-law

i know a lot of the guardian cif writers are blatant trolls but this is really appalling.

holy shit

n e ways, came here to post this, without reading it, just on grounds of concept...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/tvandradioblog/2010/sep/06/daybreak-chiles-bleakley-liveblog

taliban recruitment advert

Don't tell Eric Pickles they're running those as well as those local government 'Ethnic Divervsity LGBTI Waste Procurement & Middle England Offence Causation Officer' job ads.

this is quite good tho

http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2010/sep/06/london-blitz-bomb-map-september-7-1940

WTF@ the comments on that daybreak live blog piece (which is conceptually atrocious in every way imaginable) people taking such meaningless fluff seriously, WTF. For god's sake, get a grip Guardian readership!

Taking meaningless fluff seriously is pretty much the number 1 class signifier in 21st Century England.

take it to the pulp thread, see what happens

that blitz thing is good

Actual economic impact of carpet bombing during WWII seriously over-estimated in the general public consciousness iirc.

[lame joke based on the idea you meant 'bombing carpets']

Hongro Horace

Thank you :D I might see the year out with some old school Speccy shouts

brb, off to form a chillwave band called Nodes of Yesod

dun darraghmac

Luna Jetman

dammit I wanna use those

Taking meaningless fluff seriously is pretty much the number 1 class signifier in 21st Century England.

― Hongro Horace (Noodle Vague), Monday, 6 September 2010 12:39 (19 minutes ago)

Aren't the Guardian all about a 'sardonic', 'off kilter' approach to sleb culture? Unlike the poor stupid people who all take it really seriously and Heat 'in some ways can be seen' as replacing religion or other sources of meaning in their lives.

Dun Darach is more or less my fave Spectrum game ever, alongside those other Gargoyle adventures.

xxxp where are these coming from?

ah spectrum games? u guys.