Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

lol, apart from him!

lol noods :D

To save Hungary's liberal democracy, centrists must work with the far right
Cas Mudde

that's exactly what I love about them " ".

Comments by Labour disputes panel chair who quit come as Corbyn tries to draw a line with Passover message

Comments by Labour disputes? Who quit come?

The Guardian view on B-sides

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/apr/12/ultra-processed-truth-10-bestselling-foods-cherry-bakewell-fray-bentos-pies

This is my least favourite article that I’ve seen in the Guardian for a while. The uncritical acceptance of the opening sentence As the saying goes: if your granny wouldn’t have recognised what’s in it, it’s probably not real food. intensely annoys me, and it just gets worse from there.

I hope they publish a response from someone like Ruby Tandoh or Anthony Warner.

that sentence is one of my biggest pet peeves because there's a certain... I don't know if I'd go so far as to say "casual racism," but a certain thoughtlessness to it. namely, that the hypothetical granny probably wouldn't recognize food from almost anywhere else in the world

(I realize I say "____ is one of my biggest pet peeves" about once a week, but this one really does bother me. see also "it's full of CHEMICALS!")

oh wait, never mind, here's the casual racism: A gold star for anyone who knows how surimi is made.

at least it wasn't 'a gold star for anyone who knows how gefilte fish is made' i guess

damn

I love at least half of the stuff in that list but tbf I'm not a middle class wanker

The editorial backing bombing the Syrian government is terrible.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/apr/12/the-guardian-view-on-arms-control-signing-up-must-mean-something

At least the Mail doesn’t wrap their banging of the war drums up in evasion and appalling, meandering prose.

You UKers are lucky, at least you don't have Brigid Delaney in your edition. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/brigid-delaneys-diary

Oh dear, that wasn't good

AusGuardian articles do little to dispel the idea that nobody there can write beyond a high-school level (or if they can, they emigrate).

oh yeah, i saw a brigid delaney piece linked from the front page of the grauniad yesterday and it was stunningly poor - still not quite entirely sure what it was about other than she missed a gig because russell crowe tweeted at her? classic polly filla stuff

She was also responsible for the masterful cockup referenced here, http://www.patheos.com/blogs/thezenpagan/2017/01/welcome-to-tiny-train-world/

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2018/apr/14/gigs-cost-live-music

ok which of you buggers is this ?

Not impressed. Calls himself an obsessive but only goes to 50 gigs a year.

You UKers are lucky, at least you don't have Brigid Delaney in your edition. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/brigid-delaneys-diary

since clicking on that link, every time i open the app it takes me to that page. so yes my guardian app is definitely worse than it used to be.

sorry!

So I guess we're just uncritically reporting nazi propaganda now https://t.co/OgCdmVaYWz

— Crowsa Luxemburg (@quendergeer) April 26, 2018

just when their Windrush coverage was getting them deserved applause, they go do a much worse than they used to be thing like this.

"Wave of Immigration" is a not bad Pixies song iirc

Pixies outed as MAGA hat wearers shockah!

come on if there's anybody you wouldn't be surprised to see Trumping it up

the graun piece is just parroting some racist Trump supporting former Republican senator's ignorant claptrap, not good.

we have to secure a future for white Christendom tho

While you're here, we have a favour to ask...

I know it's hardly the worst of the Graun's crimes, but this guy should probably try reading Watchmen
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/apr/27/what-if-superheroes-arent-really-the-good-guys

El guardián de toledo, 1650:

Are popular romances of chivalry actually a bit silly and preposterous?

tbf the article does mention watchmen (once!) but yeah it's an insight-free rehash of every 'wot if the good guys... are actually bad' article written since 1987

zoe williams has a piece in today's grauniad on 'bad nationalism' which begins

i was on a panel last week, talking about good nationalism and bad nationalism. The difference, to me, is pretty plain, though not without controversy. Good nationalism is a certain specific solidarity based on the things you have created together, as a nation, and the things you aspire to create: you could call it, for short, Danny Boyle nationalism, and it takes in the NHS, the industrial revolution, the internet, as well as other less cinematic things, such as the sewage system.

i mean you could call it 'danny boyle nationalism' for short but you know what's shorter? 'socialism'

NHS: created together as a nation as thousands of doctors flocked to give up their lucrative private practices and demanded it
the industrial revolution: FUCK OFF ZOE YOU HIGH

i certainly feel a swell of pride when i think of enclosures and child labour and the brutal exploitation of our foreign empire

the internet is cinematic now?