Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

what's really tickling me right now is that fox-clubbing lunatic in the windmill becoming a leading voice against the likes of transphobes like Moore. Going by his current trajectory, Joylon will be a full-tankie by January!

Windmill Jolyon says (!):

Moreover, it appears as though Comment is Free was blocked from carrying a piece in support of the Good Law Project litigation. This is not a comment on its younger staff, but I would say the editorial line of the Guardian is more transphobic than that of the Mail.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 25, 2020

The Guardian has recently refused content in support of trans women from a group of leading feminist cis women. It advances the agenda of (the polls show) a small minority of privileged cis women against one of the most vulnerable groups in society. I am so ashamed of it.

— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) November 25, 2020

oh for god’s sake pic.twitter.com/KGMv5vHCzn

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 25, 2020

tiny violin gif x1000

Slow day for Moore as she only appears on the front page of one national newspaper, The Daily Mail, talking about being silenced, this morning.

As I hate this rag (and this is a sorta nothing gesture as there are plenty of transphobes and racists left on their books) I really like how much she is really sticking the boot in, and using every single right-wing outlet to do it.

I assume they'll just take it on the chin but it'd be interesting to see some kind of response from The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/nov/25/got-to-make-cuts-somewhere-maltby-gives-sunak-benefit-of-the-doubt

Boris Johnson started talking about levelling up back in the summer. But the phrase hasn’t filtered up to Maltby just yet and the voters of tomorrow do not appear to be growing up with a sense of north-south injustice. Does London get too much government money? Sixteen-year-old Jemma Frost, walking home from sixth form college, wasn’t sure: “The south has bigger cities than the north, doesn’t it, so they will need more.”
She too thought Johnson had done a good job: “He’s tried his best.” There is no stigma against the Conservatives among her generation, she suggested. The miners’ strike was 20 years before they were born: “It’s only older people who are still angry about it.”

Round the corner at Kell’s Kitchen it was another slow afternoon. The corner cafe is takeaway only during the second lockdown and many of their enormous sandwiches – the special contains three rashers of bacon, four sausages, three eggs, beans and mushrooms – are difficult to eat on the hoof.

The owner, Tracey Taylor – Kell is her daughter – is just about making ends meet, but times are tough. Normally she delivers to local salons, but they’re all shut. Half the workers on the nearby industrial estate are furloughed, so they don’t need feeding. “Business is rubbish,” she sighed, behind a Perspex screen and a mask.

Yet like many people in this former Labour stronghold, Taylor didn’t blame Johnson for her predicament. “I think he’s done quite well. I feel quite sorry for him, he’s had it tough,” she said. Would Labour have done a better job? “Probably not.”

Bilge-tier journalism

really crying tears for all these "working class" tory-voting business owners who are having such a hard time of it.

are they actually real people or are they just fictional characters from all the John Harris safaris that he abandoned for being too on the nose?

It's just, she evidences 1 6th form student, after the sentence "But the phrase hasn’t filtered up to Maltby just yet and the voters of tomorrow do not appear to be growing up with a sense of north-south injustice", and 1 cafe-owner who she has clearly ascertained in advance is a Tory voter.

Fuckin journalism, how does it work?

Of Sunak’s announcements on Wednesday, it was the cut to the foreign aid budget which Iqbal thought would go down best locally. “I’ve lived in this country for about 30 years and as somebody coloured, you are still classed as a foreigner,” he mused, suggesting he had never quite been accepted locally, despite also running a curry house around the corner for years. “It might be good for the average British folk if the government is giving more to people here than abroad.”

-_-

People are misinformed and ignorant about politics? There are no lessons for a journalist to learn here!

"curry house" is annoyingly patronising from a Guardian journalist. call it a restaurant. like "builders' tea"

They don't actually have restaurants north of Stratford-on-Avon though, don't be silly.

ogmor come back to ilx we are talking about the north!

Pidd is the very worst - even her name sounds like it should be onomatopoeia for a particularly desultory and condescending journalistic squib.

is this not the lady who used her small business owning landlord pal as a labour-turned-tory source

we just have gravel pits where we feight to the death for mouldy cobs of bread up here

Would really need a worst Guardian writer poll. Too many to choose from.

is this not the lady who used her small business owning landlord pal as a labour-turned-tory source

― reggae kraftwerk (||||||||), Thursday, 26 November 2020 10:14 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Twentymans. yeah. She obviously noticed all the criticism and decided the best thing to do was double down on her approach.

Am I wrong in thinking the implied message behind all these pieces is "Keith, pssst, this is what you need to do?"

turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

— wint (@dril) March 15, 2017

dril has her number!

there's always a dril tweet

There’s always that dril tweet tbh

"my mario tip: Anything is possible in the world of Mario." - my mario tip

— wint (@dril) August 4, 2014

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

twice.

the old 2 Goomba salute

Can't believe dril book hasn't got an ILB thread

I was given the dril book last Christmas as a novelty present, would love to see it

I have seen the person's tweets before, but don't know who they are or where they are coming from, literally or figuratively, really.

That's a relatively straightforward dril tweet (the 'Racism' one). Most of them make me feel old and confused. Which may well be the point.

Well here's the news daddio, he's just been denounced as passé and a total square on the twitter thread!

Where's my pitchfork!

There’s always that dril tweet tbh

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Thursday, November 26, 2020 11:31 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is the gift that keeps on giving if you're a Graun hack or a politician

I have googled 'dril' before but tbh the explanations left me none the wiser

dril hasn’t been the same since he sold out

Guardian Christmas quiz of 'dril tweet or Adrian Chiles standfirst?' pls.

lmao

Moore also on substack

Don’t snark – this ‘Brexit festival’ may turn out to be just the tonic we need
Gaby Hinsliff

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/27/brexit-festival-eu-national

if it works, there’s a useful lesson here for the left about telling a modern, upbeat, inclusive national story – something any aspirant prime minister must learn to do – without being either painfully jingoistic or embarrassingly naff.

Sounds like Gaby Hinsliff thinks she is on 'the left'.

So what is this 'modern, upbeat, inclusive national story' she's talking about?

It's odd that Hinsliff has this sinecure.

Freedland has been there for over 20 years - and though a dreadful, mendacious person, he has a kind of talent for glib narration. Freeman is a bad fashion columnist who enjoyed mission creep. Williams is another long-standing staffer who sort of earned her status. Hyde is bad in the ways everyone says, but has talent for it, and a big following. Jenkins is a substantial, experienced journalist. So is Toynbee, in another way. Harris was quite significant in the music press and worked his way in to political writing. You can see a certain logic with most of them.

But Hinsliff writes this stuff for a major outlet every week, despite being a nobody. Has anyone ever said 'I'll buy, or even click on, the Guardian for the Gaby Hinsliff article?'; 'I can't wait to hear what Gaby Hinsliff has to say today'; or 'Gaby Hinsliff should appear on TV discussion programmes more?'. Does anyone know or care anything about her beside the terrible opinion articles she cranks out?

She seems an anomaly in being awful, like others, but also in such a nondescript, nobody, beige way.

Will this inclusive national story include the nation of the UK that voted 62/38 to stay in the EU?

it's amazing how passionate and principled these m/c guardian-wanker Remainer ultras are, just inspirational.