Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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Covering America for the world, including Americans.

good slogan but could be clarified a little further and more commas would help. how about "A British paper, in America, covering America, for the world, including Americans, and of course British people, welcome to Guardian America - home of the Guardian in the USA."

also available in Australian

Oh, it’s The Guardian. I see. pic.twitter.com/mOfnlEOyAb

— SimonNRicketts (@SimonNRicketts) June 21, 2017

Full-page Leader from the Mail railing against the Guardian for being the REAL fascists

Just fucking ridiculous. And I "look forward" to having to hear this regurgitated at the next family sunday lunch.

I just hope this is the death throes of a malignant force in UK culture realising its days are sorely numbered.

I know you are but what am I.

that cartoon sounds terrible, poor form to get all butthurt over it

https://scontent-cdt1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/19441833_10154708419351463_8600738168409543275_o.jpg?oh=4dad37bce97a6f43304969cd2dee7df9&oe=59D86968

The Mail going merrily down the alt-right route I see.

The Daily Mail or the Mail Online?

"The Mail Online - a totally separate entity that has its own publisher" pic.twitter.com/GzHFWfLqj4

— Dean Burnett (@garwboy) June 22, 2017

deano rehabilitated in nakhers' absence

Street artist Sabo shot to fame during the 2016 US election with his politically incorrect approach.

Nope, never heard of him until this article.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jun/22/a-hot-summer-night-in-london-photo-essay

nice photos but jesus christ @ this trite piece and its unearned sentimentality.

i just ranted about it on twitter, that's my mental exercise for the evening:

Pretty much all the worst sins of writing are in this piece: "A hot summer night in London – photo essay" https://t.co/jGiPxzkPPP

— Ronan Fitzgerald (@rmkf) June 22, 2017

The photos are worth the while tbh. But the writing is dire, I agree.

should have just gone with photos, their quality exposes the poor writing even further.

Absolutely. They do not need dim 'bylines' by an overly enthusiastic writer thinking he/she's D.H. Lawrence.

I was going to ignore it after yr tweet because have no time for school writing but the pictures are def worth it

Laura Barton has long been the worst. Excruciating always.

There's something so crass about it that annoys me more than is worth the effort. The default need to find false pathos, the terrible mixture of sadness and joy, neither feeling real or distinct from each other. The patronising attitude towards the poor.

The use of text to accompany the photos is insulting enough in itself, but the text is horrendous. I'm sure I've seen these "the streets by night" assignments before and all they do is show how much every project needs a top line.

Who on earth are these ubiquitous btl posters? Thegreatronraffterty, the Thunderbirds avatar guy, several others who are first to comment? I don't understand how they can live their lives and post and post and post. I mean it's not easy to be the first commenter so I just do t understand the logistics never mind the mentality.

This has probably already been asked and answered.

I mean, as an addicted person it makes me feel a wee bit better to see others' posts. It's the logistics of it that I don't understand.

There was an article yesterday on what books to bring to Glastonbury. Heh I wonder has the writer even been to a music festival, you're not going to get much reading done

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/series/brexit-shorts

hey garda whats ur fave

Jesus dunno if I can watch these...

48% nation lol

A L Kennedy's is genuinely great, I think. The language is wonderful. There's something almost Shakespearean about it. And Scott Reid is terrific, IMO.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2017/jun/19/brexit-shorts-permanent-sunshine-al-kennedy-scott-reid-video

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/15/living-in-a-caravan-mobile-homes-interiors-small-spaces

In favour, I'm massively in favour of people exploring alternative living spaces, but the tone of this article...

One day in early 2016, Ashim spotted a contract as a locum psychiatrist in a hospital in Bermuda. We let out our house, arrived in April, and for six months I drank a lot of rum swizzle, and Ashim had one of the world’s most beautiful commutes. It got us thinking: there is a shortage of senior psychiatrists everywhere, and locum jobs pop up in the most interesting places. ]’m turning my PhD (on the influence of sculpture on contemporary British ceramics – a guaranteed conversation-stopper) into a book, so can work anywhere. We could live a rich life, in lots of different places. And we decided to do it in a caravan.

We leave Cork in August, and after a trip in the van to France and Spain, we are planning to head to New Zealand for the winter. We will have to abandon our van on Ashim’s sister’s drive, but we’re not done with tiny homes. We are learning to sail and are hoping to live on a boat for our next posting. After our 17ft van, we won’t know what to do with the space.

https://www.theguardian.com/small-business-network/2017/jul/22/letter-to-my-younger-self-money-squat-dont-panic-logan-hall-rebel-hack-studios

LOL fuckin' bawbag.

has there ever been anyone who did this open letter to my younger self thing without seeming like a complete twat?

Mary Bell

Did she make a killing with the sale of her London house? Oops, getting her mixed with a smug graun hack!

Hitler

'When good TV goes bad: how Game of Thrones became a throng of dire old vice'

that's appalling

Not a complaint by any means but interesting to see a Bill-Gates-sponsored article attacking a Bill-Gates-sponsored chain of schools:

https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2017/aug/03/uk-urged-to-stop-funding-ineffective-and-unsustainable-bridge-academies

Yeah. Sponsored Content is still editorially independent (though I wouldn't be surprised if editors get jittery and self-censor).

It's Paid Content (in a different font) that's the advertorial stuff.

Simon Jenkins tries to outdo Jonathan Jones in the ignorant clickbait stakes:

'Ignore the panic. There’s little point learning languages at school.'

From Andrew Graham-Yooll's A State of Fear: Memories of Argentina's Nightmare (as mentioned on the current what are you reading thread), from his time in exile in the UK, in 1979:

I went to work at The Guardian, where liberals are conservatives who counsel readers to vote Labour

How times have changed

That's marvellous

Alastair Campbell and @OwenJones84 have a bit of a The Thick of It moment. Watch the full encounter: https://t.co/0FONZmHiuR pic.twitter.com/gd66pNgOr7

— The Guardian (@guardian) September 19, 2017

we can all laugh about it now

that's another good one for my expanding Can't fucking stand Owen Jones dossier.

lol alastair remember when you played a leading role in condemning hundreds of thousands of people to death haha okay anyway let's sit down and have a chinwag

just a couple of lads from the north in london together!!!

Isn't it the most infuriating thing to watch someone who is broadly right being so intellectually outclassed by somebody who is fundamentally wrong? And yes, the rubbish Iraq joke followed by chummyness with *millions* dead and nobody held to account for it, fucking hell Owen, I'm done defending this debating society prick.

This guy writes for the Guardian I think. This isn't any more than averagely bad but it's interesting seeing good tweeters come unstuck at length.

https://theguyliner.com/2017/10/05/the-trouble-with-nostalgia/

managed a sentence and a half