Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

... and I didn't even mention hotter than hell and thousands of miles away from anywhere else.

For the French, Australia is exotic in a way it just isn't for the British, the British seem to see Australia as a sort of Essex writ large.

As for racism, having lived for long periods in London, Paris and Sydney, I'd say the levels of racism are about the same in all three cities. The British hide it a bit better, perhaps

speaking of gulags

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/dec/23/the-expats-dilemma-i-want-my-child-to-grow-up-in-australia-but-i-didnt-want-to-come-home

― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 23 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Like how you've been radicalised Tracer.

For the French, Australia is exotic in a way it just isn't for the British, the British seem to see Australia as a sort of Essex writ large.

Possibly not a good idea for this woman to claim that 'to the greater world, Australia has an unwavering magical quality' in a British newspaper then?

racism part of the attraction for the French surely

This is not the first trait that springs to mind when French people think about Australia. Like Zelda said, they know far less about it than the British (for obvious reasons), and mostly fantasize about the landscape.

The British hide it a bit better, perhaps

Not doing a very good job at the moment tbf.

Was gonna say!

hiding it is good. France should hide it more!

Yes, that is exactly what I was trying to say.

Would just like to point out that as horribly racist as Australia can be, a lot of those doing it in public life here are bloody transplanted english people who come over here and then go on endlessly about migrants.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/bleak-times-thrive-last-column-guardian?CMP

The Guardian is legit worse without Gary Younge.

absolutely. moving and and incisive piece.

Seriously he has been consistently their best columnist for at least a decade which is a long time to keep up a run of general OTMness.

I can't understand why such a humble and lovely guy would want to leave that tawdry clickbait factory full of knaves and shitehawks!

Obviously much better what usually passes for content there

The last paragraph made me think of his interview with Richard Spencer from a couple of years ago where he struggled (I know he isn't an interviewer)

it's ok, they still have adrian chiles

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/adrian-chiles-must-we-settle-for-fanny

cunt writes about fanny

Irregular how-the-fuck-do-you-get-paid-for-this: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/17/eu-nationals-fearful-brexit-windrush

All it took was an ill-judged change in policy whose consequences were not foreseen, followed by a reluctance to admit mistakes when the victims started emerging.

This columnist is dreadful.

I have never known him be anything but laid-back, and although he’s originally Dutch, in theory he should have nothing to fear from Brexit: he has settled status, confirming the right to live and work here with his English wife and family after 31 January, just as before.

He's just 'Dutch' then, not 'originally Dutch'.

But now he’s fearful. What if, the next time he needs to renew his passport for a family holiday, the computer says no?

Renew his.... Dutch passport for a family holiday? OK. Why would the Dutch government's computer say no, or have any opinion at all about his settled status in the UK?

Yeah I can't graps what she means.

The Original Dutch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olddutch.jpg

I have no idea who the notional reader of Hinsliff columns is.

If Twitter is anything to go by, Chiles' latest column has successfully propelled him from national laughing stock to international laughing stock. I don't know whether that's a net positive for Viner.

Aren’t they a couple?

"Chiles plays the double bass, as revealed when he dueted with violinist Nigel Kennedy playing "Fever" on The One Show"

things i just learned on wikipedia (i also play the double bass, or used to, so AC is good now)

mark s is bad now

ever do a duet with Heydrich? it would still be less hellish than the one mentioned above!

xp he was always bad

correct

this is what left unity looks like

Amelia Gentleman must be looking at that Hinsliff piece and muttering WHAT THE ACTUAL...

I'm frankly overjoyed to discover the rest of the world has cottoned onto beautiful banality of Chiles' column. There's something vaguely reassuring about its workaday 2006ish awfulness in these dark times.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/19/boris-johnson-liberal-nuanced-cautious?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1579423216

Liberal, nuanced, cautious - Boris Johnson - same paragraph. Checks calendar ... not April yet.

Not sure why I just read the Observer editorial on the Labour leadership race.

Labour must learn the correct lessons from the election (reasons for the defeat do not include blaming brexit or a hostile media, do include having socialist policies and criticising Tony Blair). The successful candidate will have to communicate these ‘hard truths’ to the naughty left-leaning part members. Also an irony-free mention of how the country needs social welfare and action on climate change more than free broadband.

The more openly right-wing press (all the other press) meanwhile are free to go 100mph on culture-wars filth, but tbh this is presumably reflective of what real people want to hear and is therefore the hard truth we need?

is there a plugin which can hide all the articles written by cunts on the guardian homepage? It would be genuinely very useful, I have enough sites to hateread already.

You may want to stay away from it on Sundays.

xp I use an adblocking app to hide all their money pop ups, sure you could create a similar filter to hide the shit. Though it might take you ages.

Though pom otm, the ObSeRvEr is a septic tank most weeks.

I mean:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/19/boris-johnson-liberal-nuanced-cautious

Toby Belm innit

they are saying that there is nothing to see here. re: PM track record of being openly racist. and most right wing tory party since 30's maintaining hostile environment and destructive austerity from previous leader is "nuanced and liberal". Might have said the latter about the Graun 20 years ago. We are just a month into his premiership minus the Christmas break. So it is a bit fucking early to be making any bold claims about the complexion of this govt. They've barely had a chance to fuck anything up yet and he was on his hols when WW3 nearly started.

The Luanda Leaks stories are great

Guardisn has an article about how cats are ripping families and communities apart, thread title never been more rhetorical.

Curse ye for making me seek it out. Remove curse for having enjoyed the read. Curse the Graun for being worse than it used to be.

Sam Francis’s garden is constantly under attack. The assailant is an unneutered tom cat whom she has nicknamed Little Big Balls. “At first I thought he was quite cute,” says the 43-year-old arts producer from Weston-super-Mare. “Then the bullying started.” Little Big Balls is a remorseless playground thug. “He would run across the garden and just go for my cat, Moustachio. If Moustachio was outside, Little Big Balls would attack him.” Moustachio became too terrified to go outside.

We had our kittens’ brother around last night and even though he was less than a third their size, he bullied them both til he left. I empathised with that woman only! But there aren’t bad cats, only bad owners (and co-owners).

Moustachio

Moustachio is a beautiful boy, the owner is right to protect him

Reminded of one of the Marmalade books where the racehorse was called Irish Bob and was furious about the ridiculous name the humans had given him.

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