Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

When you really think about it everything is just ⚛

Getcha Higgs Bosons, only 50p a paahnd

The only thing this lot are serious about is wild swimming
― xyzzzz__, Friday, October 30, 2020 8:32 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

sadlol

Watching Hadley and Gaby trying to tweet precisely just now and all I'm getting is an understanding of why the brutality of gulags might have been a good thing after all.

Kolyma would be too good for these fuckers, send 'em to Barnsley!

they'd only be writing smug pieces about the exotic landscapes and superb wild swimming in Siberia.

Past tense says it all

Antisemitism in the Labour party was real and it must never be allowed to return
Margaret Hodge

I briefly channel surfed past Times Radio yesterday for about 30 seconds. It was brillo pad sucking up to Hodge followed by Chris fucking Williamson!

I haven't got to the end of the EHRC report but I'm pretty sure it doesn't conclude by saying "there were problems with antisemitism but it's all gone now, great job lads, bye!"

to be fair to the labour party, they've done an incredible job of rooting out antisemitism and there will never be another example of it from mps, staffers or members xxp

otherwise, in the unlikely event that there was an outbreak of perceived anti-jewish sentiment, sir kieth would surely need to resign amid widespread and justified criticism

Keith has already shown how he will be going forwards on anti-Semitism. Like if of one of his fave right-wing cabinet ministers praises a statue of a pro-Hitler MP who was an embarrassment to the Tory party of the 40's, then to quote him "I'm not going to talk about that".

meanwhile Rosie Duffield still is a thing

lol quiddities and agonies

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/oct/31/we-left-the-uk-for-portland-expecting-a-liberal-dream-that-wasnt-the-reality

america is pish, who knew

can't believe I got lied to about the US healthcare system by Kate Andrews!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/oct/30/1953-britain-guyana

this is really good actually, about the rarely mentioned British imperial coup d’etat in Guyana in the 50's and its legacy

Without reading that I'm guessing the legacy is awesome

I was reading a book about the Raj recently that concluded the Indian indentured labourers shipped over to British Guiana might not have been technically been slaves, but... They were allowed to return home after 5 years of hard labour, but of course there was a very unhelpful bureaucracy there to insure that barely 0.0000% actually ever did return to India.

that scene where Brenda signed off on an armed invasion to destroy a democratically elected govt and imprison all it's cabinet, as depicted in The Crown is one of the highlights of Season 1!

Of course.

Not an unbiased point, but I don’t understand the ban on outdoor swimming. Minimal risk of transmission - significant benefits to physical and mental health. The same goes for botanical gardens. pic.twitter.com/Lyo9BDXPfe

— Paul Lewis (@PaulLewis) November 1, 2020

lol Full Graun