Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

"this is tragic stuff" :D

it did inspire some good shade from berg (directed at beethoven): "Es gibt doch nur eine VI. trotz der Pastorale"
webern's recently discovered reply: "zu lang, also sehr mimpy (genau wie du, wirklich real zu sein)"

they're not doing much Mahler at the proms this year, only 1, 5 and Das Lied I think. I couldn't be arsed to book any of those (saw Das Lied earlier this year).

In fact it's just 4 and Das Lied. Duh.

I seriously cannot be bothered to read the article. Would rather prefer to sit through a Mahler symphony, even no 8

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jul/15/theresa-may-legacy-feminist-champion-women

Aw yeah.

Don’t give them the clicks, imo, the url tells you 95% of what you need to know.

Nah, there's gotta be a good top comment

Oh sick, it's one of the ones that doesn't have comments

I presume they are pretending the two child rape clause didn't happen for the sake of a very wrong controp.

https://www.theonion.com/women-now-empowered-by-everything-a-woman-does-1819566746

Theresa May’s positive legacy? She’s a feminist champion | Martha Gill https://t.co/vH0iJ1YaV2

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 15, 2019

here are the comments :)

I guess they got exactly what they wanted. Played right into their hands

The Conservatives look like the party of privilege

Who knew?

Greening setting her stall out for all those who think she had absolutely nothing to do with education "reform" during the last nine years.

The Graun posted some right drivel at the the start of May's tenure as well. What a genius gambit by going to the left of Labour via lip service etc...

Boris Johnson's positive legacy? Latin is once again on the curriculum.

(did you see what I did there?)

"look like" the party of privilege

won't someone think of the optics?

I can't work out if a paid political journalist, leader writer for various newspapers is actually oblivious to the multiple awfulness of the deeply unpleasant, stagnant shit souffle that May is as a human and a politician. Or she's just been asked to write a risible challop piece about her. Either is bad.

Serious question, would Gavin Shukar actually get paid for his article?

I mean, he should, 'cos it's hilarious.

"for one short period back in the spring, it looked as though the formation of the Independent Group might just catalyse the unravelling of both parties of government..."

read a piece last week about controversy regarding the singer rosalía releasing a song in catalan which uses spanishisms. the article, from a guardian writer who lives in barcelona, had a link to a tweet in catalan which he identified as being critical of rosalía but was in fact critical of criticism of rosalía. i haven't to barcelona since 2010 or had any contact with the catalan language since that time and i could read the tweet.

made me mad.

Are you referring to this one?

de vertitat perdonarem que la rosalia digui "cumpleanys"?

Because the Guardian piece's author doesn't describe it as an instance of criticism.

ah it's been edited. there was another tweet linked in the article previously

Lol

Toby Young may be terrible and whatever but those indignantly piling on should realise they are mainly doing it for two reasons: 1) it's his turn to be bullied on twitter today and 2) they like bullying people on twitter

— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) January 3, 2018

Let's presume there are equal numbers of straight men and women. 'Redistributing sex' would just mean monogamously pairing off more of them, wouldn't it? I mean, it's v old fashioned, but not sexist, unless you start from the sexist pov that sex is a commodity women give to men? https://t.co/DDGrJgBdE6

— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018

@thomasknox Newsflash: women are just as sexist as men. Sexism still a problem.

— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) July 16, 2014

None of these points are made in the article. Assuming "more sex for everyone" means "sex should be wrested from women and given to men" itself rests on the sexist belief that women don't like sex and men do.

— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018

I don't get why this is sexist. Isn't he saying that nowadays dating is a free for all, so the most attractive men and women get all the sex, and the less attractive men and women don't get any. 'Redistribution' would mean returning to olden days where everyone had to be married

— Martha Gill (@Martha_Gill) May 3, 2018

Publishing this by a man who was one of the key architects of the spurious case for war cynically constructed to justify war crimes on an unimaginable scale is beyond insulting. The Guardian is vile and indefensible. Campbell is a war criminal who should be locked up for life. pic.twitter.com/DG5V7R37ng

— Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) July 15, 2019

Xp any relation to eric lol

The older I get the more I think Kate Millett was right about everything.

good grief, Martha Gill is so very bad I hope she's embarrassed one day at all this drivel she gets paid to write. It was bad enough when the Spice Girls were declaring Thatcher as a paragon of feminism, but at least they had the excuse of being dim as fuck pop stars, not so called political journalists.

https://youtu.be/yaq-t59D9hA this reminds me of this classic clip (0.53 for Thatcher)

it wasn't all the spice girls! the mels and posh pushed back!

but not sporty?

or is she sporty i can't remember.

quality question on that clip btw.

mel c is sporty

good on her.

Mel B of Harehills can stay in LA forever for my liking, or move back to Leeds!

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/jul/24/millionaire-retired-30s-kristy-shen-bryce-leung-fire?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1563950418

Today, at the grand old age of 36 and 37, respectively, Shen and Leung are reveling in their “retirement” (to use the term on two people so pulsating with youth seems disingenuous).

it's a feelgood piece

Leung, meanwhile, says he was recently diagnosed as “obnoxiously happy” by a doctor. He is so convinced by the power of Fire that he thinks it could even have political ramifications. “[Donald] Trump’s rise to power was caused by economic fear, Brexit was caused by economic fear … If everybody was FI [financially independent], Trump wouldn’t have got elected.”

only a really poor doctor would have misdiagnosed such a clear case of terminal smugness as that one.

jfc why did i read that?

cos it's such a graun classic!

has to be a misquote, right? If everybody was *on* fire, Trump wouldn't have gotten elected.

Read the Guardian every morning to see what's pulsating with the youth

somewhere between physically sick with depression and violent heat-sapped rage now

Their journey to Fire started fairly conventionally – they were saving for a deposit to buy a house. But the more they saved, the more house prices went up and the less sure about getting on the property ladder they became. By 2012, after seven years of saving, they had C$500,000

feeling like a right chump for not saving c$71,428.57 a year rn

it's only £43,513.74 ffs!

leaving aside the impossibility of saving that amount per year I'm confused to how this is supposed to work anyway. They've calculated their expenses as $40k a year and saved 25x that amount. so they think they are going to die in their 50s, and that there will be no inflation in those 25 years? idgi

i'm feeling bad about all the money I've pissed away on booze, scratch-cards and football betting. I could saved up almost a quarter the amount for a one way ticket to fucking switzerland!

no it's fine they have INVESTMENTS and three BACKUP PLANS

also being dead in 15 years or so is probably a fate that we can all expect to enjoy so good on 'em i hope they make the most of it before the climate apocalypse occurs

Since retiring she is so much happier – at one point, her job made her so miserable she was on anxiety and depression medication

Here's hoping she gets her old job back.

lool!

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/aug/13/quiz-identify-these-pop-superstars

I got 8/15, of which at least three were wild guesses.

I got 8/15, of which at least three were wild guesses.

Exact same for me, wild guesses and all!