Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

62% in two years in Lewisham? Fuxake

By the time the Bakerloo line extends there it'll be worth a couple of Latvias.

downsizing is prob hot coffeestation chat as they mothball the berliner presses tbf

That is an excellent sentence even if I did read it three times wondering how deforestation came into it

Bizarre puff piece about Louise Mensch, who has been retweeting every half-baked conspiracy theory for the last five months.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/17/louise-mensch-trump-russia-ties-media-scoop?CMP=share_btn_tw

on the frontpage of the website right now - do not want
https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2017/03/08/MayLaughCommons.gif

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/apr/02/the-lost-generation-credit-crunch-thirtysomething-brokebroke

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f1967753aac2233aaa99bb5e8007a053a7bc079a/263_40_1290_774/master/1290.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=8ca7954e763f071e3ede2afb8cdc39cb

A generally good line of argument, but undermined in classic Guardian-style by:

My mum gave us a £12,000 deposit, plus £2,000 to pay off my credit card, and my wife and I bought a house in a middle-class suburb of Newcastle for £150,000. Just after we moved in, my wife had a second baby and I got a job at a local magazine, working four days a week, with a day off for childcare. It was paid work, but I was earning under £20,000 a year. After considering my future, I decided I’d like more money in it. So I contacted a university lecturer about teaching, took their advice and enrolled on a Masters.

your wife had a second baby and you are only working 4 days a week?

The wife was working?

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

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Not simply a life hack but a #worldhack.

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#CEOSecrets 1. paying taxes is for suckers

a bit of the old trenchant social commentary there

assumed CEO stood for Cheese, Egg, Onion