https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/10/bleak-times-thrive-last-column-guardian?CMP
The Guardian is legit worse without Gary Younge.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 January 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
absolutely. moving and and incisive piece.
― Fizzles, Friday, 10 January 2020 09:01 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 10 January 2020 09:06 (four years ago) link
I can't understand why such a humble and lovely guy would want to leave that tawdry clickbait factory full of knaves and shitehawks!
― calzino, Friday, 10 January 2020 09:29 (four years ago) link
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)
― anvil, Friday, 10 January 2020 09:35 (four years ago) link
it's ok, they still have adrian chiles
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/16/adrian-chiles-must-we-settle-for-fanny
― Paperbag raita (ledge), Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:06 (four years ago) link
cunt writes about fanny
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 16 January 2020 10:19 (four years ago) link
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.
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
This columnist is dreadful.
― the pinefox, Friday, 17 January 2020 09:48 (four years ago) link
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?
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 January 2020 09:51 (four years ago) link
Yeah I can't graps what she means.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 17 January 2020 09:58 (four years ago) link
The Original Dutch
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olddutch.jpg
― Frozen Mug (Tom D.), Friday, 17 January 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
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.
― ShariVari, Friday, 17 January 2020 10:38 (four years ago) link
Aren’t they a couple?
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 10:57 (four years ago) link
"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, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:00 (four years ago) link
mark s is bad now
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
ever do a duet with Heydrich? it would still be less hellish than the one mentioned above!
― calzino, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:06 (four years ago) link
xp he was always bad
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 17 January 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
correct
― mark s, Friday, 17 January 2020 11:32 (four years ago) link
this is what left unity looks like
― que pasa picasso (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 17 January 2020 11:33 (four years ago) link
Amelia Gentleman must be looking at that Hinsliff piece and muttering WHAT THE ACTUAL...
― santa clause four (suzy), Friday, 17 January 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
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.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 January 2020 14:09 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 19 January 2020 09:59 (four years ago) link
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?
― crisp, Sunday, 19 January 2020 10:25 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 19 January 2020 10:37 (four years ago) link
You may want to stay away from it on Sundays.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 January 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
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.
― steer karma (gyac), Sunday, 19 January 2020 12:12 (four years ago) link
I mean:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/19/boris-johnson-liberal-nuanced-cautious
― pomenitul, Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:30 (four years ago) link
Toby Belm innit
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:32 (four years ago) link
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.
― calzino, Sunday, 19 January 2020 15:52 (four years ago) link
The Luanda Leaks stories are great
― Frederik B, Monday, 20 January 2020 11:01 (four years ago) link
Guardisn has an article about how cats are ripping families and communities apart, thread title never been more rhetorical.
― steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
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.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
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).
― steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link
Moustachio
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:25 (four years ago) link
Moustachio is a beautiful boy, the owner is right to protect him
― steer karma (gyac), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:41 (four years ago) link
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.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 22 January 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
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― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 31 January 2020 12:19 (four years ago) link
IN THESE DECADE-DEFINING TIMES
― mark s, Friday, 31 January 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
most important year ever
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Friday, 31 January 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
Lol imagine the cheek of that when they were constantly running Labour scare stories just marginally more respectable than the tabloids?
― steer karma (gyac), Friday, 31 January 2020 12:34 (four years ago) link
who the fuck actually pays that subscription is buzzfeed registered as a charitable organisation
― plax (ico), Saturday, 1 February 2020 13:42 (four years ago) link
Even bearing in mind this is a Fiona Millar opinion piece, this is breathtakingly bad and shouldn't have been published at all, let alone given the prime spot on the website.
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/04/mp-new-labour-education-lucky-blair-brown
― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 4 February 2020 12:26 (four years ago) link
Love to see lazy hack Catherine Bennett get two pieces of shit published today: one, a legitimate concerns piece about trans people (of course!) and the second a completely embarrassing sketch piece that even Tom Prick would be ashamed of. Fuck these people, my only comfort is that the fascists won’t spare them either.
― hyds (gyac), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:42 (four years ago) link
Imagine this being your hill to die on? The sheer, unvarnished cuntery of it!
”human rights do not include the right not to be offended or to have your spiritual, or other non-negotiable private convictions, affirmed by fellow citizens."
― hyds (gyac), Monday, 17 February 2020 10:47 (four years ago) link
hnnggghhhh
The Tories are flirting with eugenicists and Labour is insisting biological sex is just a social construct. Britain having a totally normal one— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) February 17, 2020
― Homegrown Georgia speedster Ladd McConkey (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 10:16 (four years ago) link
deport her!
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 10:20 (four years ago) link
One has led to the death and immiseration of countless millions over the centuries, the other has caused the vein in Graham Linehan's temple to throb unattractively. Fair comment then.
― Load up your rubber wallets (Tom D.), Tuesday, 18 February 2020 10:24 (four years ago) link
well yeah on one side of parliament is an opposition party being pro trans rights and on the other side is the beginning of the T4 aktion.
― calzino, Tuesday, 18 February 2020 10:27 (four years ago) link