Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Lol pvmic

<3

Kind of a relief to see Freeman writing for The Spec tbh - get in your lane dingbat

When I click on that Freeman link the page shows a load of 'similar Tweets' (in effect) below and they are things like Kate Hoey, Brexit Party, John Redwood. That's literally the algorithmic company Freeman's keeping now.

I agree with Nashwan, I'd rather see her in the Spectator than getting credibility from publishing anywhere else.

Christ, her actual article is even worse than I expected - it's a 'diary column' or something.

It states: 'I am an innate people-pleaser'.

Toynbee is back on the 'Labour patriotism' sauce https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/22/starmer-challenge-defeat-tories-patriotism-labour

Slightly more voters trust Labour on Covid than don’t trust them, but the pandemic should be long over by the next election in 2024.

Did anyone else get a horrible sinking feeling reading this coming from Toynbee?

https://i.redd.it/h6mnve5xce651.png

This is hard to read.

https://amp.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/04/cupboard-love-my-biggest-romances-always-begin-in-the-kitchen?

i have a plan for resolving that problem

I don’t like to see anyone until I’m on my second cup. My flatmate, one of the great loves of my life, says that nobody has ever hated her the way I hate her in the first half-hour of the day.
I fell in love with her in a kitchen, too: my old kitchen, 4am, fluorescent fridge-light, her eating cold leftovers, me pouring boiling water on to a pair of teabags. We were both sort of despairing in those days, and though we had known each other for a long time it was in that kitchen that I knew for sure that I loved her completely. I have never had a kitchen I didn’t fall in love in; I never want to.

xp https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/04/cupboard-love-my-biggest-romances-always-begin-in-the-kitchen ?

Why did you link it again?

Anyway this is one more funny.

I don't like to criticise other journalists, but from @guardian journalist to mouthpiece for this hard right, hard Brexit, international law-breaking PM is really quite a leap. I honestly can't imagine why she wants to do it.https://t.co/QL6ErUtd7E

— Christina Patterson (@queenchristina_) October 8, 2020

i honestly believe i can imagine this

I mean that video where she is shaming a w/c woman as a benefits scrounger might have let the cat out of the bag somewhat.

Her husband is a Spectator editor.

She is named Allegra Stratton.

i for one cannot believe anybody with a right wing bone in their body has ever written for the Graun

sounds like a name for some shit UK manufactured car from the late 60's that was still clattering about the roads a decade or more later

Just love this debate, it crosses over with shit liberalism thread too. From the little I see Lewis Goddall gets far more heat because he seems to do a good job reporting on government failure.

I fear that some, whatever their views on this government, are motivated by a desire to witness a woman fall from glory so they can say “told you so”. I well remember the bitter and purine response from Men of Twitter to Allegra’s Newsnight era

— Hannah Fearn (@hannahfearn) October 10, 2020

whatever next? Theresa May - harshly judged feminist icon?

weaponised feminism is a strong look

Elena ceaucescu was hated because she was a strong woman

whatever next? Theresa May - harshly judged feminist icon?

― calzino, Saturday, 10 October 2020 11:14 (thirty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Is it a woman’s job only to call out sexism where she sees it affecting someone she agrees 100 per cent with? I don’t think so. Politically, I didn’t want Theresa May as PM, but they doesn’t mean her tenure wasn’t marked by blatant misogyny

— Hannah Fearn (@hannahfearn) October 10, 2020

Theresa May was a victim of misogyny as is every woman sometimes, but as a politician she was also capable of enacting policies that reinforce misogyny, strange how these kind of journo complaints are generalised as if to suggest that any attack on a woman's behaviour is inherently misogynist

I never wanted Theresa "rape clause" May to be PM honest, so it was with a heavy heart that I voted for the Conservative party in 2010, 2015, 2017 .. etc.. she could be a new Simon Hedges style parody account. Yeah attacks on May often were misogynistic but that doesn't mean she wasn't one of the most spiteful, vindictive, racist and poor/disabled hating home secs/pm's of this era.

the panic is coming from inside the landfill, ihibidtae

lol, the Guardian's last mention of Bolivia appears to be from two days ago. No acknowledgement that the election has even taken place.

Lol was just looking for that

hot off the press! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/19/bolivia-election-exit-polls-suggest-thumping-win-evo-morales-party-luis-arce

Yes, I also was finding it odd that this election was unmentioned.

"Allegra's Newsnight era"

The Guardian's top story from South America today pic.twitter.com/ISPJjjB0sB

— All Tension No Release (@hoodedman1187) October 19, 2020

tbf

Credit where credit is due

guardian reporting on ehrc Labour fallout this morning some of the most distorted bullshit which I guess not surprising. just line by line an omission followed by a misrepresentation followed by an outright lie and so on. I expect the comment page to be pure garbage but I'm naive enough to expect some level of journalistic standards in the news reporting. I guess tell that to the people of Latin America etc

It’s astonishing how much of their news coverage is simply factually incorrect or hugely distorted, even on less clearly ideological topics.

well I know they can't read a graph, it was a real eye-opener when I learned some basic statistics how frequently their reporting of research findings bore so little resemblance to the papers they were referring to

and I mean basic stuff

and I mean basic stuff

Almost everything, irrespective of the topic, reads like the writer has no subject knowledge but has been incompletely briefed by someone with an angle.

Tiny things that make you irrationally angry: Guardian continuing to use the Corbz dicknosing pic (in his own front garden tbfttfloto) on the front page 24 hours later. Kind of welcome the pic ed snark on the football pages, but doesn't exactly indicate they are serious about the issues here.

The only thing this lot are serious about is wild swimming

tbfttfloto

tbfttpe, the completely flat wire on that dicknose pic suggests he's never worn it over his nose

isn't it a single use mask?

Man outside own front door hasn’t affixed single-use mask yet, pls alert the media.

i think we need a full forensic analysis on this

Today i will be ignoring Gaby Hinsliff and focusing my ire on the article about synthetic diamonds being "anatomically identical to a stone that has taken billions of years to grow underground".

It's true, same internal organs and everything

This lump of coal here - same stuff, trust