Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

me and Hannah went to it, it was on telly too. we had to endure that shite so's we could get a good spot for Katy Perry.

Lord Rockingham's XI not Scottish despite being mentioned several times there. Vocalist of Hoots Mon was not actually in the band.

what the hell is this.

From Stonehenge to Iceland's Arctic Henge, by motorbike – photo essay

it contains the line “Germany is full of surprisingly green fields”. as someone pointed out it reads like a well-written Year Seven holiday assignment.

also unless i’ve missed something it’s not really a photo essay. i mean it’s got some photos in sure.

it’s an hour or so since i read it and i’m still laughing at “surprisingly green fields”. i’m not sure whether they meant germany is surprisingly full of fields and they are green, or if it was the fact the fields were green that came as a surprise, or the sheer vividness of the green hue came as a shock. all are equally strange.

When I relocated to Iceland from London in 2015 to write a book

We've all done it.

There is something Marilyn Hagerty-ish about it, prose so flat and detail so random you can only assume there's some subtext or other.

Actually I know someone who went to live in Iceland, years before it became in any way fashionable, and fathered several children there before coming back to Scotland, throwing an abandoned shopping trolley into the hitherto calm Icelandic gene pool and confusing genealogists for generations to come.

I want to relocate to somewhere to write my exhaustive study of the history of m-cat 2006-2009, gizza posh flat, I could do that!

i think the subtext is some commissioning person met this person while high on icelandic volcano fumes and thought they had an interesting story to tell. idk then they got hexed or something to force them to publish it.

They drove past farmhouses.

And cornfields.

To an ancient Icelandic henge that has stood since 1996.

i’m not sure whether they meant germany is surprisingly full of fields and they are green, or if it was the fact the fields were green that came as a surprise, or the sheer vividness of the green hue came as a shock.

I thought that was going to be a Thirty Years' War link!

Getting quite riled up by this today - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racism

Can't believe a middle class white person has issues with identity politics

skimming michael white tweets I'm struck by what a joke its going to seem in years to come that the guardian was the most leftwing broadsheet in the country

I remember when rock was young
Me and suzie had so much fun
Holdin hands and skimming michael white tweets
Had an old gold chevy and a place of my own

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what a load of shite

lmao that cannot be real

Huge fuckin knee

hi, i'm elle hunt and i've never seen a knee before, btw who looks at album art now in this streaming-centric world of ours anyway, okthxbye

Deadlines are a hell of a drug

Big knee or tiny hand?

Once seen, the giant knee on the cover of the strokes' debut album cannot be unseen, and for that I am grateful.

hi, i'm ledge and i've never seen a knee before

"I see asses everywhere now, where before I saw knees."

?

Where was she seeing all these flexed knees that now look like asses to her?

(also of course she sees asses everywhere, she's working for the Guardian culture section lol)

Have to say I think this article is a bit of harmless Friday goofery made to be clowned on by bored idiots like us, I enjoyed it but thought it a shame she bothered filling it out with all that rough version boringitude.

wanted to post something to the effect of this being a place with a several hundred-post thread about whether a Loverboy album has a man's or woman's ass on the cover and as such not truly entitled to poke fun

except the thread seems to have vanished

There was a whole deal with that thread and google iirc

it's v enjoyable to see everyone rip into them on twitter & their total inability to defend themselves suggests they know they're full of it

your disgraceful bias has lost you hundreds of readers a day yet you persist in it because you apparently consider your idealogical role as hit squad for the capitalist class more important than actually being a successful capitalist corporation

— David Graeber (@davidgraeber) September 26, 2018

It’s tempting to think that the the influx from the Evening Standard and Buzzfeed, etc, has changed the nature of their reporting over the last few years but then Michael White pops up on Twitter talking about Fenians and you remember they’ve been appalling for decades.

as have Liberals

#BoycottTheGuardian was trending on Twitter yesterday but there wasn't a clear explanation of *why* anywhere, if I hadn't made an effort to find out I might have thought it was due to the right wing users who complain about "guardianistas" upset about Tommy Robinson or something.

I suspect Guardian boycotters would avoid it anyway.

Kerry-Anne Mendoza from the Canary was booked to do a lecture at Kings Place by the NUJ and dozens of Guardian contributors complained online and are trying to have her cancelled. I’m no great fan of the Canary or its editor but the booking was for a particular BAME lecture given every year, the people going after KAM so far are white, and she’s not. Really bad optics all around.

Who exactly is the Guardian for? pic.twitter.com/KTvuqO6n0T

— Peter (@pickyouredge) October 6, 2018

May reclaiming cuddly One Nation Toryism via nothing more than lip service, whilst still actually killing disableds and maintaining a foodbank regime of low unemployment poverty has The Graun seal of approval it seems. Yes what was it I ever actually liked about these cunts again? Can't remember.

Once read a Francis Wheen book, used to like Kakuro puzzles. I actually used to be a regular print guardian reader of sorts - wouldna wipe my arse on it these days. Must have needed my fucking head looking at!

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Last year, I made fixing our broken housing market my personal mission.
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In the past, economic change has left some communities behind. This time it will be different. Government is today stepping up to its proper strategic role in our economy, ensuring that good jobs and real opportunity are spread across the whole country – with every town and city seeing the benefit.
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So these are our Conservative solutions that will build a country that works for everyone: fixing markets, not destroying them; helping with the cost of living; ending austerity; building an economy of the future which benefits the whole country.

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Don't mention 'disabled' to a Tory whatever you do.

I knew they were struggling to sell broadsheet quality journalism for the price of a thimble of piss, never mind a fancy coffee! But this will cause long term damage to what's left of their "brand".

missed a set of ""'s there!

Looking forward to them adding "Anyone But Corbyn" to the masthead.

Can’t wait for the piece Corbyn has for the Mail.

"My years as an evil Paedophile Soviet Agent taught me more than anything that we need to capture the centre ground to be serious players...

I'm not saying all the goodwill + plaudits for Amelia Gentleman's Windrush exposes are totally negated by this, but running dubious Conservative Party adverts when they already have the greatest part of the print press already doing this is a very bad move on many levels for The Graun imo.

Amelia Gentleman is married to Jo Johnson, please don’t forget that.

didn't they do this semi-regularly in the Cameron era? was always puzzled by what the Guardian thought they stood to gain from it

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Not wanting to pay your site mods overtime is not owning the consequences of your liberal above-it-all bullshit!