Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

I paid for the app without even thinking about it.

to read articles that were written in a similar way

glad the hackney tourist board is so keen to pony up but i'm not, seem to remember some smug article abt how paywalls are bad

http://www.iwradio.co.uk/newscentre/national-news/wootton-bassett-cartoon-sparks-outrage-15954542

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2011/3/16/1300318427436/Steve-Bell-17.03.11-001.jpg

I think I get it now.. is cameron's head a condom because he's a dickhead??

Or because Bell can't draw him?

are his eyes not in the condom?

Bell explained it as stemming from Cameron being presented as a 'Safe' Tory.

dreadful

it's because he wants to keep out the jonny foreigners

Not even Bell would use that joke

that's where bell ends and where i begin

Is that a bellend reference?

I think I saw something about it evolving from Bell noticing his curious shiny smoothness when he met him.

Defence Secretary Liam Fox told the Sun: "It's tasteless and offensive. It shows a total lack of respect for our fallen.

"It's cowardly and bad taste which stands in stark contrast to the pride of the people of Royal Wootton Bassett."

i actually agree it's offensive. it also isn't even that cutting, it's a fairly confused message.

the subject is fair

cartoon is typically shit

i don't get it tbh

i think it's potentially fair except the lack of a clear punchline or meaning just makes it seem gratuitous. plus you know, d-cam didn't start that war, much and all as i think he's a total cunt.

x-post otm...can anyone explain directly what it means?

the 'war on language' bit applies to the nhs poster, sort of, but... not the other thing. does it?

Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is head of the condems geddit?

Cameron has a condom on his head cos he is pretending to be one of our mates geddit?

it makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

it's a ruddy disgrace!

http://i.imgur.com/eL3bY.jpg

hahahaha he looks like a chimp! lol! steve bell for prime minister! charlie brooker as chancellor!!!

http://img863.imageshack.us/img863/5316/ffsp.png

HURRRRRR

yeah im not going to click that

http://www.annastoydepot.com/images/martianpopping.jpg

Steve Bell is missing a trick here, I think.

The Hadley Freeman article is worse than it sounds.

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Pass notes No 2,948: Bunga bunga

Silvio Berlusconi is alleged to be keen on this particular kind of party

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Karima el-Mahroug Karima 'Ruby' el-Mahroug claims Berlusconi heard about bunga bunga parties from Gaddafi. Photograph: Kerstin Joensson/AP

Appearance: Sweaty.

Age: 17 to 80. Preferably 17.

Sorry, what are we talking about here? Bunga bunga.

Oh. They drink it on the Humber, I suppose? That's Um Bongo.

I thought they drank that in the Congo. They did, apocryphally. But look, bunga bunga is something different.

How so? Um Bongo is a memorably advertised fruit juice drink. Bunga bunga is a type of orgy where many naked teenage girls cavort for the pleasure of a few old men.

Yes, that is different. Yes, it is.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/27/pass-notes-bunga-bunga-berlusconi

Thinking the Impossible: French Philosophy Since 1960 by Gary Gutting – review

The theories of Derrida and Foucault are revisited in this fair-minded history of French deconstructionism, and guess what? It wasn't all bunkum…

sometimes i hate british people

Cockroach News of Cockroach England

Are the theory wars over? Twenty-five years ago you couldn't cocoa your cappuccino without someone accusing you of floating a signifier, much less close down the, ahem, discourse with a simple "I prefer my coffee that way"

Rebarbatively obscurantist the post-structuralists may be, but anyone who has read Gary Gutting's fine introduction to their thought will be a little less quick to convict them of charlatanry.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/mar/20/thinking-impossible-philosopy-gary-gutting

Bray has pompous prick tendencies, but he's hardly a Guardian regular.

"Camerons fly to Spain for mini-break in Spain."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2011/apr/11/pass-notes-the-bercows

Pass Notes is like shooting fish in a barrel, it's the single worst thing in the Guardian.

12noon: BREAKING: Kiss couple will go on a second date, I've been told. More shortly.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/2011/apr/15/kissing-in-public-live-blog

what a farce...

guess i wasn't far off

OMG, dark-haired one on the right has been in a drinking situ with me and Lex! "Financial journalist" would be the pertinent clue re. the connection - dude knows a fair few activists, let's say.

really?! did not recognise at all (and still don't) - we had no twitter follows in common when i checked

― lex pretend, Friday, 15 April 2011 07:18 (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Twitter doesn't come into it. Dude in question is a good friend of Hugo's and I'm pretty sure he came to one of my birthday drinks with him.

― a modest broposal (suzy), Friday, 15 April 2011 08:14 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ah that makes sense, wondered if it was through hugo!

― lex pretend, Friday, 15 April 2011 08:22 (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

reckon this piece of info can make tomorrow's guardian front page #slownewsdays

― Jlloyd, I'm ready to be heartbroken (ken c), Friday, 15 April 2011 10:03 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

there's a v well written tanya gold, i think, article on abortion today, fwiw

yeah but who will she bring with her tonight for the big kiss?

Libby Brooks, not Tanya Gold

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/15/big-society-abortion-advice

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/apr/16/home-birth-trial-or-rewarding

The pictures that accompanied this article - even more so in the print edition - had me wanting to gouge my eyes out. I get that birth is a natural and beautiful thing but fuck if I want to see a woman spread wide with half a baby hanging out her while I'm having a lunchtime read.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/apr/14/hail-rock-roll-laura-barton

the summary is: Sometimes the meaning of a song is communicated not with words or explanation, but through the magic of the music itself

really blowing my mind, it's almost as if all instrumental music ever made somehow HAS MEANING, but no words??? and there is music with foreign lyrics, somehow that too speaks to me???

hang on a second, it's ALMOST as if lyrics are frequently just part of a wider collection of sounds forming pieces of music. jesus...and not actually separate pieces of poetry to be pored over in awful music columns.

I like how Alba maintains correctness.