Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

I mean Turrican seems to enjoy it, but otherwise

I'd have some sympathy for the writer if there was a sense that it was as painful for them to make this content as it is to read. But we're all stocked up on banal inanities wrapped up in fake jauntiness/smugness etc, thank you very much.

Well, The Graun is for sure.

https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/oct/26/together-we-are-safeguarding-the-guardians-independent-journalism?CMP=share_btn_tw

The Graun is on the up + up. They defeated Trump with their progressive journalism and now their paywall revenue outstrips advertising income. So obv now they are going to abandon clickbait and the all ads masquerading as journalism type shite. And give Deborah Orr a payrise for her services to Hot Takes.

as long as there's still plenty of lifestyle and thinkpieces that reflect my on-trend, cosmopolitan centrist Dadism then keep on keeping on I say

luv2support independent journalism (and occasionally enjoy entire sections of advertorial about how wonderful azerbaijan or saudi arabia are)

bg, where did the “luv2verb” thing come from?

i guess must have picked it up somewhere but honestly i have no idea where that would have been - all i know is that i'm committed to getting myself 51'd by using it constantly

luv251 hang on

@hambeef love too get a bite on that. thank you for sharing

— wint (@dril) December 8, 2009

^^^i believe it began with this fella tho i only starting seeing it in bulk this year

everything circles back to @dril eventually

martin kettle offers a blazing-hot take on the list of alleged tory sexual harassers, gets instantly ratioed

If I worked for Putin, I'd think that Tory spreadsheet was a good day's work.

— Martin Kettle (@martinkettle) November 1, 2017

anybody who claims harrassment is an enemy of the state

2/1 Doubles down on this
4/1 Feeble non-apology
8/1 "Please ladies, help me to be a better man"
10/1 "Somebody hacked my Twitter"
16/1 "It's Corbyn's fault"
200/1 "I've behaved like a cunt and will retire from public life immediately"

he doesn't tweet much so i'd put my money on 'doesn't react on twitter, shits out an "i got ratioed for truth-telling" column' next week

That half page advert wrapped around the guardian today is a ballache. Can't pick the paper up without it flapping, can't throw it away because the crossword's on the back of it.

Maybe you could put it to one side.

How to drink wine: a quick guide for Theresa May

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/24/the-guardian-view-on-taylor-swift-an-envoy-for-trumps-values

This would be embarrassing on a Blogspot page, it’s astonishing in an editorial.

it's an envoy for the Graun's values

Her new album, Reputation, is not available on Spotify – anyone wishing to hear it must buy it.

Ideally she would give it away for free while debasing the content and interrupting you every two verses with a begging note.

fair play to them, they understand their comment section regulars at least

lol sv

their editorials shd have more pop music chat imo, like when they misread an article in their own paper that said it would be cool if Sleaford Mods were nominated for a Brit award and wrote a thing congratulating Sleaford Mods for being nominated for a Brit award

you don't get this kind of quality reportage behind a paywall

Blimey - that's embarrassingly poor.

The ILX Guardian thread, Dan Hodges and Piers Morgan, united at last.

On a day when Bonker's Britain went even more bonkers than usual, this Guardian leader on Taylor Swift and Donald Trump basically trumps the lot. https://t.co/Y0FZnxZif5

— (((Dan Hodges))) (@DPJHodges) November 24, 2017

Disgraceful, bizarre & politically sinister hatchet job on @taylorswift13 by @Guardian simply because she doesn’t preach their politics. https://t.co/toAIruQWaP

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) November 25, 2017

I hate Taylor Swift and think she's probably evil but that is ridiculous yes

That is part of the problem, imo. Brainless, pseudo-woke clickbait is an open goal for the far-right and the Guardian engaging in this kind of bad faith hatchet job just makes it harder for politicised writing on pop culture, diversity, etc.

Xp

Bonker's Britain is back baby

Shari on a huge pile of money

Younger, hipper, cooler:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/dec/21/prince-harry-and-meghan-markle-release-official-engagement-photos

trolling yr own readers for clicks, classic

meghan seems nice enough, so it’ll be a bit sad to send her to the guillotine with the rest of her in-laws, but omelettes/eggs innit

still at least they're not envoys for Trump's values

gl ISIS, if you need any help vaporising them - give me a bell.

the royals: calzino’s ilx bat-signal

I for one am glad that somebody is prepared to offer support to ISIS in this difficult but necessary task

judge a man by his enemies etc

Markle, 36, an American actor best known for her role in the legal drama Suits, displays her engagement ring in both studies. The ring was designed by Harry.

it's a ring, surely as long as you can operate a pair of compasses

^ I couldn't find the propert 'favourite screen names' thread, but genuine lol at that one, NV (you might've had it a while, only just noticed)

let’s not give harr

it's a ring, surely as long as you can operate a pair of compasses

"still at least they're not envoys for Trump's values"

Trump is quite useful for odious Lineker/Rowling types, it gives them someone other than Corbyn to slag off. And when you are trying be nice Tories, having such a fucking amoral fascist abomination to score easy moral points off is very useful for their social media side of the biz. Fuck all these people tbh!

I know, it was a snarky dig at the Graun's outraged Taylor Swift op ed upthread

Taylor Swift = bad
The Royal Family = delightful

apparently

I'd forgotten about that one before I read it!

I meant to say before I didn't read it. I refuse to believe Dan Hodges + Piers Moran are on the right side of any argument, but it seems the Graun has gifted them this opportunity.

taylor swift thing was revealed as nazi psyop in the stormer style guide leak, so i guess the guardian is not great.