Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/23/my-pandemic-puppy-is-ruining-my-hot-vax-summer

lmao that is another peak guardian pile of piffle

'here's something you busy bees should find relatable!'

I know that many people, like me, already think that Marina Hyde is a bad reactionary.

But even so, I am surprised at the level plumbed by this particular, latest, column. Astonishingly poor in quality, in insight, in ethical and political values.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/nov/26/britain-mp-vote-nick-fletcher-doctor-who-jon-trickett

Shameful.

Boris Johnson's CBI speech was nowhere near as depressingly bad and awful as Starmer's was. Even the director general of the CBI thinks Starmer is full of shit.

but yeah Hyde is fucking awful (again)

"the alternative is facing up to the bald reality that people actually preferred THIS GUY to his guy"

why not just say the UK electorate are mostly fucking awful and have been awful for decades, and in a FPTP system with the Graun demonising the LOTO on a daily basis it wasn't that hard for them to revert to type.

.. and awful to succeed again

I don't expect an arsehole like Hyde to go into the People's Vote stitch-up that completely fucked Corbyn in 2019. But let's not try to pass oneself off as a very smart and droll arch-cynic who knows what is going on, which is allegedly her brand.

It's not like Trickett wrote a think-piece about it either, just a one sentence tweet that was more about highlighting the hollowed out husk of the NHS that is now on the brink of being hollowed out even more by big US healthcare companies.

The Beatles were like aliens from the future in 1969 - and they are still as radical today
Jonathan Freedland

vicarious memories from a complete dickhead who was born in '67

To be fair, "Octopus's Garden" might have sounded radical to a 2 year old.

it sounded nice! we would be warm / below the storm / in our little hideaway / beneath the waves!!

i was a bit older than two tho

horribly ancient uglies who only existed on scratchy old ex-jukebox 45's is my memory of them and unfortunately I'm not that much younger than him. Anyway they weren't radical and they were fucking shite!

that army fetishizing wankfest was bad enough, but at least he kept it short.

Freedland doing his paper round and rushing home for the six-five special years before he was conceived is going to be the new pretending you lived through rationing and blackouts this week.

why do i get the feeling that if you played him a hundred other records that genuinely sound like aliens from the future, he'd only moan that they don't have proper songs like the beatles

That's well said, NickB. Most people don't actually like "aliens from the future".

It's not like Trickett wrote a think-piece about it either, just a one sentence tweet that was more about highlighting the hollowed out husk of the NHS that is now on the brink of being hollowed out even more by big US healthcare companies.

― calzino, Friday, November 26, 2021

Important point here: Trickett, in his ONE-LINE TWEET, did NOT go on about BJ creating a 'dead cat' effect.

And yet Hyde has written 3 paragraphs about how she doesn't like people using the phrase 'dead cat'.

I don't like it either, actually. But Trickett didn't do it. Hyde did. In an attack on someone who was defending the NHS.

She is morally disgusting.

"the world of Bedford vans, Charles Hawtrey and the Daily Sketch"

instead of making appallingly written clickbait for boomers, listen to Karyobin you odious bullshit merchant!

Baroness Hyde, no matter how liberal-left leaning she pretends to be for the sake of her hilarious ragging on the tories column, often can't help betraying how much of a tory wanker she is to the core.

*peeps into thread, retreats back into little hideaway beneath the waves*

https://www.diy-pest-control.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Rentokil_Carpet_Moth_Beetle_Multibuy.jpg

no one there to tell us/What to do !!

I know that for The Observer, Brexit is the primal scene of the nation’s disgrace, but this is actively disgusting. pic.twitter.com/lwTVC6w7DN

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) November 27, 2021

FBPE psychosis in cartoon form is just as fucking demented as Ben Garrison

I hope someone will be amused by the GUARDIAN VIEW Editorial on KS's reshuffle and promotion of Yvette Cooper:

The new team contains strong and high-profile performers who have the talent and experience to discomfort their Tory opposite numbers. The appointment of Yvette Cooper as shadow home secretary follows an impressive performance as the longstanding chair of the home affairs select committee. Ms Cooper’s clashes with Priti Patel are likely to be Westminster box office. Her track record on immigration policy makes her an experienced pair of hands, in a debate that Labour must handle with care.

I thought everyone, including aggro-liberals, thought that her 'track record on immigration policy' was an embarrassment?

I think they mean ‘discomfit’.

You get some bizarre projection going on with Cooper, who is a thoroughly nasty piece of work. FBPE's often seemed to believe she was a remainer without any evidence suggesting she was. Lots of respectable libs don't judge her cold careerist decision to be nastier/more racist than May and literally having the blood of disabled people on her hands. As for being good "box office" and a big beast, well Corbyn ran rings around her in 2015 and made her look like what she is - a cardboard cut out, a cold dead automaton with nothing inside her.

good summary

Absolutely love this absurd Guardian political opposites series, how are these people politically different lmao pic.twitter.com/YtesAkFdkx

— Agree to disagree 🍊 🍊 🍊 (@StefGotBooted) December 3, 2021

they really seem to have given up on the "political opposites" concept of this!

this one featured two retired professionals who both vote Lib Dem and seem to agree on pretty much everything

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/f3bcb10149bdd62a7ec3b7efd0fc3f49ce3a478f/0_662_5515_3309/master/5515.jpg?width=620&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=f9a958d4fa2821362a8de04f74e7c52c

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/nov/04/dining-across-the-divide-we-inherited-a-degree-of-stoicism-that-is-no-longer-required

https://static.timesofisrael.com/www/uploads/2020/04/AP_19309496124097.jpg

this is what they should be aiming for.

The state of the Guardian demographic these days:

Q My boyfriend and I would like to buy our first property together. We will be joint owners and both contribute towards the deposit, the repayment mortgage and upkeep of a £740,000 house. He is on a significantly higher salary than I am (it’s more than double mine, and likely to increase in the next couple of months). He has therefore been able to save much more than I have so I am only going to be able to contribute about £20,000 while he – with help from his parents – will have £100,000 to put towards the deposit and the stamp duty. I don’t need or particularly want to live in a £740,000 house but I don’t have a lot of choice as he is being very inflexible in terms of location.

Dodgy boyfriend problem

That's always been the Guardian demographic surely?

London is just absolutely full of millionaires

I love the way the photo caption inanely frames the Q&A problem:

Some locations can be more of a financial challenge than others for buying a property. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Only the Lib Dems can win here! https://t.co/8F7lBGkJZx pic.twitter.com/T6lp9mMJ33

— Lafargue (@Lafargue) December 6, 2021

lol they are still doing this now? I don't even think the Graun is sure of what they are trying to do here tbh, old habits die hard.

"When she appears on Zoom, she looks pale, composed and serious-minded beneath her eyecatching red hair (was it this that made the police mistake this ordinary 28-year-old woman for a firebrand?)"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/dec/07/patsy-stevenson-interview-everard-vigil-arrest-faces-of-year

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/dec/09/burying-leni-riefenstahl-nina-gladitz-lifelong-crusade-hitler-film-maker

this an A+ longread which I've only read half of because I'm on the way to the dentist, but I'm going to finish it later. But yeah Riefenstahl was equally as evil + nazi af as she was talented has always been my take. She reckoned Goebbels hated her, but in his dairies he had nothing but effusive praise for her and he slagged every fucker off including Hitler in his dairies.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FGUcR6iXIAIXILR?format=jpg&name=small

she just recycles the scraps from the Succession writers waste basket and these fuckwits are lost for superlatives ... every time!

let's not rule out the positives of Mitch Benn burning his laptop

besides the fact it might blow up and kill him

I would genuinely rather eat a plate of my own shit than ever again hear a Mitch Benn song.

even more so than The Archers or The Moral Maze, any kind of R4 comedy/satirical shows have me reaching for that button at light speed

*boak*

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2021/dec/11/david-baddiel-and-his-daughter-on-his-social-media-addiction-it-can-reward-and-punish-you

recently saw some old panel show footage of everyone laughing after Sean Lock jokes about Thatcher's corpse getting catapulted into Buckingham Palace, apart from Baddiel grimacing away in the background, clearly sickened that this guy was funnier than him and making jokes about dead Thatch - how dare he be so rude.

and Baddiel used to make jokes about having anal sex with 13 yr old girls wo sent him fan mail and of course there is his famous blackface routine.

his father’s dementia, which he often tweets about, and his late mother’s infidelity, which he made a live show about in 2016

The guy's a prince.

He couldn't get any laughs out of his daughter's anorexia but at least he got a Guardian feature out of it.