Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

the art of damage limitation and carrying on when the reasoning behind your latest book is completely blown away by real events.

I'd love to see this cunt trying his patter with the postcode gangs of Sheffield, that used to rob tools out of our vans and try and sell them back to us later. Not that they were necessarily voting types of citizens.

We have a ready made Centrist party in the UK, no need to even contemplate forming a new one. Why doesn't he go and join them?

we have something like 12 by now

if you want your own accommodation in Manchester and you're a wheelchair user then the wait is a mere 114 years. gradualism at its best.

https://www.aspire.org.uk/blog/loneliness

I still think insipid soundbites are way more important than actual disability benefits for the disabled.

Still, it's better than it was in 1872.

It was terrible back then, poor communities didn't even have groups like More In Common dishing out platitudes soup.

"Neoliberalism is a long way from being the all-conquering hegemonic discourse the Corbynite left claims it to be. Indeed, neoliberalism has been pretty much disowned by the leaders of all the largest political parties."

Kindof shocked that a professor of politics in a fairly prestigious university does not have a better understanding of neoliberalism. That is, the way neoliberalims is always self-disavowing, presenting itself as a set of techniques and procedures rather than an ideological, world-making discourse. It is only the last ten years or so that the various crises set in motion by the crash have made it possible to name neoliberalism in a popular sense, prior to that discussion of neoliberalism was more limited to academic/activist/etc. kinds of discussion. Obviously the whole article is riddled with delusional hide-bound-by-class bunker thinking exacerbated by losing-my-edge anxiety but it should be pointed out that there is also a (seriously worrying for his students) cluelessness about the basic characteristics of the phenomena he is describing. This is different from his willful mischaracterisation of "corbynite" views and positions (which I would expect) and, to me, completely unforgivable from an academic point of view.

just felt that was worth noting. Also this kind of bollocks is intimately linked with REF culture and university managements increasing obsession with "impact," a disastrous vehicle for the most craven, showboating academics that rewards this kind of nonsense with professorships.

absolute peak Guardian, this: https://t.co/le13kG4FOG pic.twitter.com/9Ml4SJvks6

— Marie Le Conte (@youngvulgarian) March 28, 2018

£2500 (plus travel) to go and gawk at a failing economy? shut up and take my money

might get meself on one of their "Brexit and inner cities in the North" holidays

if you wanna see a dead child refugee wash up on a beach while you're there it's an extra £500

accompanying mezze platter only £15 tho

get the feeling the marketing people are just flipping thru old "Modern Parents" stories from Viz for their ideas now

these recipes are very bad (mostly)

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/mar/28/six-of-the-best-egg-brunches

My favourite one is at the bottom. Put yoghurt in the microwave for a minute then add two poached eggs on top. The recipe is called "Magic Soup".

might get meself on one of their "Brexit and inner cities in the North" holidays

A full two weeks with John Harris.

xp

the worst type of more equals less type recipes, lets just throw a bit of everything in there and not worry that it looks absolutely minging!

It seems to no longer be called "Magic Soup"? And now it's the OVEN they want you to put the yogurt into? Yes I'm going to put the oven onto 200C, wait for it to come to temperature and then put a small bowl of yogurt in there for 5 minutes. I mean fuckin what??

I am honestly laughing now and cannot stop

"Just pop an oven-proof bowl of yogurt in the oven for 5 minutes and r-"

"OK you're insane, or I'm insane, it's one of the two"

The green eggs one looks absolutely disgusting and that's with a professional food photographer.

way to disrespect white culture everyone xp

my bad it's only 140C that's a totally efficient and normal temperature for HEATING UP YOGURT FOR 5 MINUTES

behold the opening line from today's inane garbage article Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age

on the internet, the adage goes, nobody knows you’re a dog. That joke is only 15 years old, but seems as if it is from an entirely different era.

motherfucker that joke is twenty-five human years old as even a cursory googling would reveal, jesus christ buck up your ideas grauniad writers and/or subs

omg tracer don't you even have an aga?

more like Aga Can't amirite

egg-in-an-aga saga: the tracer hand story

Beware the smart toaster: 18 tips for surviving the surveillance age

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2007/01/15/jh.jpg?w=620&q=55&auto=format&usm=12&fit=max&s=7640f84b8fa22bff9c461e4854675828

only one winner in that particular battle of wits

top tip: pour your yogurt into an old padded envelope and simply cook it in the toaster

My bad, it's the book it's from that's called Magic Soup, although yoghurt-in-the-oven is the cover photo

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Magic-Soup-Food-Health-Happiness/dp/1409154920

Kate Adams has been immersed in healthy food since an early age. Her parents helped to launch the original Vegeburger and Kate worked in health publishing for 10 years. She was responsible for hits such as Gillian McKeith's You are What you Eat and Tiger Aspects Cook Yourself Thin. Depressed by her expanding waistline, Kate Adams set out to lose weight and keep it off for good. Six months later and over two stone lighter she decided to share her experience by setting up the Flat Tummy Club.

flat tummy y cause i keep accidentally BURNING MY YOGURT

whatever happened to noted poop-toucher and fake-degree-holder gillian mckeith anyway? she was everywhere for a while

i've found her twitter

The British Lara Croft 😍😍 @GillianMcKeith pic.twitter.com/yVxnVFMp0q

— giles (@ImGilo) March 9, 2018

Think I'm a Celeb p much finished her career:

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2010/nov/20/gillian-mckeith-im-a-celebrity

Am slightly suspicious of this claim abt an 'original' vegeburger tbh.

ur-burger

When I used to live in London this hippy yank guy called Greg Sams I once did some work for, claimed he patented the first vegeburger. But he was a total bs merchant.

In this interview, Gregory Sams, author of 'Sun of GOd' provides fascinating insights into the meaning of our closest star -- the Sun. Gregory proposes that far from being just a meaningless ball of plasma, the Sun is an aware and conscious entity. Is this why so many ancient civilizations from the Sumerians, to the Egyptians, Mayans, Aztecs, Celts and Native Americans revered and worshiped the sun as a god? Gregory's ideas may seem radical, but up until 2,000 years ago, this was a widespread perspective throughout the world.

i like the cut of this fella's jib tbh

As Gregory Sams awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into the inventor of the first vegeburger

He was a bit of a boastful name-dropping arse, chiming on about he was friends with Lennon blah blah, 1st macrobiotic restaurant blah blah.

Nigella's version of that recipe is called Turkish Eggs, it is fucking delicious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ1Rd5HOEK4

i'm getting almost overwhelming asmr vibes from that video

lol at nickb's kafka rewrite

LOOOOOOL someone I know works with Greg Sams rn and let’s just say she doesn’t see what’s wrong with Stuff David Icke Says. I dread having to hear her opinion on That Mural tbh.

any numpt that thinks a gigantic ball of hydrogen/helium is a deity is not to be trusted on anything imo.

that's Ra-cist