Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

yes - he owns

Yes! Really good and very young.

I got 8 but only actually knew billy eilish through memes,dua lipa (why because she look interstin) and capaldi because scottish

A big session hairdresser I’ve known for years (he moved to LA from London about 10 years ago) has been working with Dua Lipa for ages and always shares her latest lewks on FB.

Dave has been excellent for the past two years, but he never seems to get much ILM love.

when my niece (11) was dragged to my booklaunch Q&A in hastings in feb she sat restively at the back as the chat abt 70s and 80s rockwriting droned on UNTIL (her mum afterwards told me) i mentioned dua lipa and her antennae shot up excitedly

so i am down with the kids (=my niece anyway)

i knew abt dave but i think his popname is bad not good despite his music being the opposite

The Dave and fan rapping @ Glasto is one of the few genuinely nice stories of the year.

I played the Dave album yesterday, and it was pretty good. Highlight might have been my kid walking into the room and asking "is this grime?" Kids today ...

This guy?

https://img.discogs.com/DmmlvzcdlG4K757-_KSf-0Hj7ms=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-10388036-1496481221-4171.jpeg.jpg

king of grime

Looks pretty grimey.

Meridian Dansez

if nothing else, respect to dave’s seo guys who have somehow managed to make what I’d expected to be a challenging google search for his name into the top results

Matt Johnson should hire them.

im dave

— DAVE! (@allahliker) August 14, 2019

dave i'm a fraid dave

https://www.buzzfeed.com/amphtml/patrickstrudwick/two-transgender-employees-quit-guardian-transphobia?utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter&__twitter_impression=true

oof, that's sad.

good for people to see the actual consequences of the guardian's "we're just asking questions/we like to publish a range of viewpoints" editorial stance which is basically a fig-leaf for pushing an anti-trans agenda.

utm_source=dynamic&utm_campaign=bfsharetwitter&__twitter_impression=false

Lol what is that?

sic does that whenever someone posts a link and hasn't removed the extra referral gubbins off the end. try to think of it as charming

Do embedded twitter posts contain referrer information?

What is referrer info?

Anyway I am charmed sic.

This is interesting timing, a day after that BuzzFeed piece:

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2019/aug/16/im-nicky-bandini-and-im-still-a-sports-writer

> What is referrer info?

the bit of the url that's not necessary to get to the page in question, it tells them who you are or where you've come from or session id or some other information about you.

So things like location? Seems harmless enough

some modernist you are

The one time I don't Google something..

shorter is always better unless it's one of my patreon posts

These are shorter:

This is a badly-photoshopped fake. I’m supposedly the journalist responsible and I never wrote this. It’s a lie. Please delete. It’s being reported.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) August 16, 2019

lmao

As long as we’re agreed you’re a liar and a fake. Hope the weather in St Petersburg is nice this summer.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) August 16, 2019

It's hilarious shit.

All his journalist mates are up in arms, every single one is being trolled.

Why would the Guardian have a headline in a totally different font and allow a howler such as a hyphen in that headline? Because it’s a crappy fake.

— Jane Merrick (@janemerrick23) August 16, 2019

trolling y/n?

😘

Please don't listen to him, he's a bot account (you can tell fro mthe badly photoshopped picture), I'm the real Peter Walker and I remember writing this

— vinegar tom (@moose_malloy) August 16, 2019

this is all v funny

Peter Walker still, STILL having a thoroughly normal one

My point is that it’s not intended to stand up to any scrutiny, but that people just glancing at it - as happens often on Twitter - could be fooled. Some people told me they initially had been. And as such the intent seems malicious.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) August 17, 2019

I think it’s somewhere between. It’s obviously very crude and badly written, and anyone reading it properly would realise. But the faked screenshot and genuine byline are weird, and seem intended to mislead at least initially. I’d say it’s more malicious trolling than parody.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) August 17, 2019

It was a joke about St Petersburg, for God’s sake.

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) August 17, 2019

Easily the best part:

pic.twitter.com/OvDdlc3Lys

— ian mighty (@iammightor) August 16, 2019

losing it at peter walker losing it

Not a columnist at the Guardian any more - not enough able-bodied English men over the age of 50 in that section, but gives me more time to write for the excellent @SocietyGuardian and even better @jacobinmag

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) August 23, 2019

well The Graun has definitely just got a lot worse, how many non complete cunt writers are left now? Enough to count on one hand?

lol at me upthread crossly telling everyone to stop reading it in 2001!!

lol also at how i posted then blimey

Emailed almost the exact second I was released from hospital

— Dawn Foster (@DawnHFoster) August 23, 2019

lovely stuff

love too have a very plural media landscape - 40% of GBP voting public now has voice in mainstream media publications through.... what? one political commentator?

Is this at all legal? surely no-pay-no-fee twitter QCs are DM-ing her right now! Anyway, yes the guardian is terrible and Dawn Foster always seems like the only high profile commentator I can imagine hanging out. Maybe Aditya, but I suspect he has a very earnest sense of humour which makes for very PLEASANT conversation.

He's sarky and childish

Not earnest I mean

I'm basing my assumption on very little.

you'd be forgiven for thinking otherwise (given who gets uselessly to hang on eternally) but i'm p sure editors have the right to decide at any time to no longer commission someone as a columnist, which is i think what happened here? (unless anyone knows different: DF's own tweet abt the reason is surely her sarcastic reading and not what they told her)

(i mean it's a bullshit decision and spiteful timing, but again i think these are decisions that editors legally get to make)

All I know is around this time last year she renewed her yearly contract (there’s a salary for this but effectively it is a retainer for x amount of work). My guess is that they decided not to give her one again, and unfortunately there’s not any opportunity to take them to an employment tribunal because of the way contributor contracts work. It sucks because she’s been in and out of hospital A LOT over the past month and I think it’s not exactly the most sensitive thing they’ve done recently.