ime lexiters broadly believe that 1) the eu has become a fundamentally neoliberal institution & 2) the single currency is a recipe for disaster. which is kinda hard to argue with tbrr, but imo it's a long unconvincing road to 3) therefore the UK should leave it
larry elliot voted leave "in order to shake things up" well be careful what you wish for mate
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 6 October 2016 22:18 (seven years ago) link
There are also leftwingers who are against freedom of movement because it's part of globalisation, treating workers as resources who are expected to move around the continent as capitalism requires. Job low paid or non-existent? Get on your bike and move to another place where you're more in demand.
― Alba, Friday, 7 October 2016 13:22 (seven years ago) link
never feel lower than when giles fraser is trolling me with his hobbit morality in 2016
― ogmor, Friday, 7 October 2016 20:01 (seven years ago) link
Larry Elliot is really beginning to piss me off...I had been a fan of his columns for some years, but he's now writing crap like this:
Will dearer food and the coming squeeze on living standards will prompt a change of heart about Brexit? Remainers should not bank on it. Life has not been great for many in recent years anyway. What’s more, Britain is a country with a streak of cussedness that delights in having its back to the wall.
― Half-baked profundities. Self-referential smirkiness (Bob Six), Sunday, 16 October 2016 13:41 (seven years ago) link
Britain is a country with a streak of cussedness that delights in having its back to the wall.
Pretty sure that can't be England he's talking about.
― Robby Mook (stevie), Monday, 17 October 2016 08:57 (seven years ago) link
Pixie geldof interview: frowns on paparazzi, links to salacious paparazzi pics.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Sunday, 30 October 2016 09:26 (seven years ago) link
paper edition doesn't have any papped photos.
― koogs, Sunday, 30 October 2016 12:03 (seven years ago) link
Yeah they should offer the bonus content to those who actually pay.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Sunday, 30 October 2016 14:43 (seven years ago) link
Free glossy pamphlet of pap shots.
― quis gropes ipsos gropiuses? (ledge), Sunday, 30 October 2016 14:44 (seven years ago) link
page 44 of the magazine "Nearly everything in the house is secondhand" says the owner of Aerende, which will sell you, on page 47, a £185 duvet cover and a £7 bar of soap.
― koogs, Sunday, 30 October 2016 18:35 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2016/nov/09/with-trump-victorious-time-to-support-fearless-independent-journalism
Jesus Fucking Christ. I think I would genuinely prefer one of those 'Cheer yourself up with a gingerbread latte!' offers.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
rolling thread of shaming PRs who make omg-eyecatching references to the election results to promote their artist shite fucking paper
― calzino, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 17:21 (seven years ago) link
Naomi Klein entering her Scott Adams phase
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/09/rise-of-the-davos-class-sealed-americas-fate
I thought the article couldn't be as crass as the subbing made it out to be, but I was wrong
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:02 (seven years ago) link
lol you stole my criticism!
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:05 (seven years ago) link
Did you actually say that? Not consciously nicked, honest, but it's the sort of thing that sticks around.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:15 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/rmkf/status/796278820546482176
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:17 (seven years ago) link
That shit is everywhere right now in fairness.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
it is insufferable tho, all day on twitter today and yesterday
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:20 (seven years ago) link
xpost, yeah! awful.
From the other thread:
Hillary is definitely going to delete this email
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That's the kind of guy we want leading the free world
(BIG GIF OF TRUMP AT WRESTLEMANIA)
Have you ever taken out Vince McMahon live on WWE? Nah, didn't think so. Have you ever set up your own university? Oop, no, you haven't. And I bet if someone gave you a small loan of a million dollars you wouldn't even know what to do with it. Sounds like Donald just clotheslined your libertarian, democratic opinions right out of the window.
But seriously, before you go home and start building your own wall around your property to keep out all the post-apocalyptic raiders you'll be fighting off after the nuclear war, maybe go out, take one last gulp of fresh air and hit up some the hotspots in London we've been stockpiling for just such an eventuality. Believe us – these are the memories you'll cling to after all else has crumbled in the wake of WWIII…have fun!
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:21 (seven years ago) link
Just gonna take my mind off the rise of fascism by standing around a gas burner eating a £12 burger while some twat plays a Gorgon City tune.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:23 (seven years ago) link
the thing is, I actually did go out last night - so maybe they're onto something. the place i went wasn't tweeting at me.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
Yeah I mean I'm exactly the same, but that kind of marketing is almost guaranteed to make me want to go almost anywhere else.
The Guardian using it as yet another opportunity to rattle its begging bowl is a terrible look as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:27 (seven years ago) link
yeah i unfollowed anyone who made posts like that.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Thursday, 10 November 2016 11:29 (seven years ago) link
at least the Guardian isn't publishing "sensible", best-of-all-possible-worlds leader columns arguing that Trump might not be so bad, like the Times:
Britain in many ways is well positioned from his victory. With a Scottish mother and investments north of the border, he has far more affinity with and affection for these islands than Mr Obama. He has also said that Brexit Britain will be at the front of the queue for any trade deal. Mr Obama had said that the United Kingdom would go to the back, a policy that is very likely to have been followed by a President Clinton.As a political neophyte, Mr Trump will have to operate as delegator-in-chief. He must surround himself with experienced advisers, especially at the Treasury, State Department and the Pentagon. And as a businessman it is not unreasonable to hope that he will promote competence over ideology.Washington’s checks and balances remain in place. Congress may be Republican but, if it endorses irresponsibility, the party will pay dearly in the 2018 mid-term elections. In the meantime Mr Trump has vowed to govern for all Americans, including those dismayed by his victory. His first job as president will be to prove their fears misplaced by showing more restraint and generosity of spirit than we have seen so far.
As a political neophyte, Mr Trump will have to operate as delegator-in-chief. He must surround himself with experienced advisers, especially at the Treasury, State Department and the Pentagon. And as a businessman it is not unreasonable to hope that he will promote competence over ideology.
Washington’s checks and balances remain in place. Congress may be Republican but, if it endorses irresponsibility, the party will pay dearly in the 2018 mid-term elections. In the meantime Mr Trump has vowed to govern for all Americans, including those dismayed by his victory. His first job as president will be to prove their fears misplaced by showing more restraint and generosity of spirit than we have seen so far.
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/american-revolution-jv3bsjzj2
― soref, Thursday, 10 November 2016 16:21 (seven years ago) link
Being Scottish is OK now, is it?
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Thursday, 10 November 2016 16:38 (seven years ago) link
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/media/woman-chooses-coffee-over-safeguarding-guardians-future-20161121117565
― koogs, Monday, 21 November 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/nov/27/photographs-of-historic-england-challenge-downton-abbey-myth?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
― Fizzles, Monday, 28 November 2016 06:58 (seven years ago) link
"challenge"
excavations-of-neolithic-settlements-challenge-flintstones-myth?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
sure going to enjoy that coffee this week.
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 28 November 2016 11:57 (seven years ago) link
I have bought the Guardian today.
― the pinefox, Monday, 28 November 2016 12:56 (seven years ago) link
How is it, compared to how it was at some point in the past?
― Tim, Monday, 28 November 2016 13:28 (seven years ago) link
well, there's no manchester edition any more...
― koogs, Monday, 28 November 2016 14:02 (seven years ago) link
pinefox if coffee's not your thing then maybe hot chocolate or herbal tea- lot of places have quite a range now
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 28 November 2016 14:11 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CyRbHqsXgAA1bsT.jpg
― nashwan, Monday, 28 November 2016 15:13 (seven years ago) link
Amazing
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 November 2016 15:14 (seven years ago) link
Davictoria Cormitchen at your subservice.
― nashwan, Monday, 28 November 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
verily, a take hotter than the earth's core
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 28 November 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
does not fempute
― Neil S, Monday, 28 November 2016 15:37 (seven years ago) link
I like buying and reading the print Guardian. It mostly comes across better in print than online. Nowadays it is also like a tiny gesture of financial support.
Tim: that's really the nub of the question, isn't it, in many ways?
I think the answer is: it is in many ways as good as it was - say 10 years ago - but has gradually cut back so that various things it used to include are no longer there.
But this could be a good thing from the old POV of 'there is too much in the paper, I'll never get through it!'
- especially as I try to read the whole paper, or all of it that I can deem worthwhile.
― the pinefox, Monday, 28 November 2016 22:48 (seven years ago) link
I agree with each and every one of those sentiments!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 28 November 2016 23:02 (seven years ago) link
you can read the print edition as published at https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian fwiw
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 02:56 (seven years ago) link
lol
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 10:31 (seven years ago) link
The Guardian view on celebrity deaths
― my hangover is a time machine (seandalai), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:00 (seven years ago) link
*scrambles to get to website as quick as possible*
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
In the end, they give us their deaths quite as much as their works, and that is why they are so passionately mourned.
QED
― Dr Drudge (Bob Six), Tuesday, 27 December 2016 22:41 (seven years ago) link
Deborah Orr is so terrible
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/30/donald-trump-personality-disorders-learn-minds-work
A fair number of people are implacably opposed to seeing any hope for the future after the election of Donald Trump to the presidency of the United States. But there’s one good reason to be hopeful. Many observers saw quite quickly that Trump’s personality was highly disordered. People with yet more dangerous personality disorders have gained power many times in human history – probably far more often than not. This time, however, the phenomenon is being scrutinised on those terms. The opportunity for everyone to learn a lot about this domineering, exploitative, unstable and superficially charismatic personality type has presented itself on a grand scale.
― soref, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:31 (seven years ago) link
that is a bad premise for a column, but the it somehow gets worse
A New Zealand study reported earlier this month that “high social cost” adults could be predicted from as young as three from a 45-minute survey of their brain. It has long been known that early intervention is important for vulnerable children. But the Dunedin Longitudinal study is a real wake-up call. It signposts how catching early developmental problems and helping children develop their minds more fully is of benefit to all of society, if only we have the will.
― soref, Saturday, 31 December 2016 01:32 (seven years ago) link
ruok deb
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 31 December 2016 06:09 (seven years ago) link
maybe put them in some kind of camp or something idk
― Rock Wokeman (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 December 2016 08:54 (seven years ago) link