Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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.

the guardian is nazi psyop tbf

Why Turning Off Your Lights Tonight Wastes Energy

makes u think

You Won't Hear The One That Gets You, And That's Okay

More Prince Harry today:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/27/the-guardian-view-on-prince-harry-the-monarchys-best-insurance-policy

Just giving him the same tobacco smoke enema as the BBC have, yeah more posh but dim Tory celebs needed in this era.

this headline

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/07/uk-retailers-to-restrict-sale-of-acid-products-to-under-18s-b-and-q-wickes-tesco-attacks

you have to send your bairns into B+Q for sulphuric acid these days, that first acid attack is always the most special one!

This is quite impressive:

The @guardian have written an obituary of their former editor which contains false information lifted, seemingly, straight from Wikipedia. This is extraordinary. (Peter Preston's 51st State is a weirdly prescient political novel. The film is about a drug deal in Liverpool.) pic.twitter.com/LP9spFDAIJ

— Heather Ryan (@DrHFRyan) January 7, 2018

fuck me, that isn't going to make it to the corrections and clarifications section.

is the Guardian masthead worse than it used to be?

http://uk.phaidon.com/agenda/design/articles/2012/september/27/design-of-the-week-david-hillmans-guardian/

I miss the 90s masthead

sorry, the link was supposed to be this: https://www.theguardian.com/media/2018/jan/12/guardian-unveils-new-masthead-tabloid-launch-newspaper-online-apps?CMP=share_btn_tw

look forward to a bunch of thinkpieces from the usual idiots about how the absence of capitalization indicates a postmodern wilderness where truth has been abandoned and the liberal consensus has failed and you're not even allowed to call them [INSERT RACIST EPITHET HERE] any more

caps are back mate and serifs too

https://i.imgur.com/GqeNCAl.jpg

It looks like the font on a mafia film poster.

Was thinking more 80s Woody Allen

It feels like it should be lightly animated.

i like it, the guardian still sucks tho

can't help reading it as The. Guardian

oh I obviously mis-skimmed the article, hurray for truth, objectivity and sensible centrism.

there's a fish and chip shop in Hull called The Codfather that uses a similar logo

I think this cover has been v typographically influential over the last couple of years

http://d28hgpri8am2if.cloudfront.net/book_images/onix/cvr9781476789033/a-girl-is-a-half-formed-thing-9781476789033_hr.jpg