Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

didn't Zoe Williams used to be their sort of voice-of-youth columnist back in the day? Anyway, the oldest Zoe Williams column available on the guardian website is a list of '101 things we don't miss' published April 2001 that includes Roland Rat and Deely-Boppers, so her writing fluff pieces for them is not a new development

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/apr/21/weekend.zoewilliams2

I know her a little because we have many mutuals and I like her; she has no time for bigots or terfs, especially those in the media. She is definitely on the left despite going to private school in West London. Not crazy about the Poly Filla stuff she is asked to write, though. I say this all the time but columnists get their gigs because an editor becomes fascinated with some aspect of their lives and then they’re in that job forever. One huge reason her output has increased recently is that she has been seconded to Parliamentary sketch person while John Crace recuperates from his heart attack.

should i be worried abt the heart-attack rate among senior guardian columnists? god keep chiles safe!

He doesn't have Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit living rent-free in his head.

fluff is good again

it just goes to show that centrism is even worse for health than heroin addiction

Certainly at a policy level

and at a personal cost for Crace, the burden of being a disgusting neoliberal shill led him to get his posh works out again and inject a heart attack inducing speedball into his balls!

omglol

Say what?

Labour’s shadow chancellor says she is William Wragg incident and says it is right there is proper investigation

"But Doctor, I am William Wragg incident"

lol

As Rachel Reeves awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into William Wragg incident.

Meltamorphosis

the foul insect-like creature was transformed into william wragg incident. It was a mixed bag but most certainly an upgrade of sorts.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/09/m-and-s-invests-methane-burping-farting-cows

what a load of bullsh- ah, right yeah, that's literally what it's about

just clicking on that graun website to see some more smouldering manure

Not worse just the same old same old from these double dyed cunts.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/frank-field-lib-dems-progressive

Leaving the politics aside it's a piece of will-this-do crap and as political analysis it's inane.

Guardian declare for "Sir" Ed Davey now, you cowards!

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/elite-force-bucks-trend-of-ukrainian-losses-on-eastern-front

I thought the Azov Brigade were a far-right militia. Am I mixing something up?

it does briefly mention that in the article:

The 5,000-plus strong brigade has shed any far-right associations, relentlessly emphasised in Russian pre-invasion propaganda, and is one of the military’s elite forces, comprised entirely of volunteers.

ah thanks, I genuinely missed that sentence

would be good if they fleshed that out a bit though tbf

Looks like bullshit to me

i also have shed any far right associations and if you don’t believe me just ask me more about it

It's also saying yeah they were a bit fashy, but if you have a problem with that then you're just been played by putin

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/30/everything-must-go-by-dorian-lynskey-review-why-is-it-always-apocalypse-now

"In less skilled hands this 10-Armageddons-a-page pace might make for a depressing read, but Lynskey’s encyclopedic knowledge (we race from James Joyce to Joy Division, from Alan Turing to The Terminator)..."

It might feel that in 2024 the ways in which we can wreck the Earth are more numerous and potent than ever, but it was ever thus; the world has always been just about to end.

The first half of this sentence is absolutely true and the second half is delusional bullshit.

mat osman is the drummer from gay dad (bassist from suede)

I think it is broadly true that each generation since Hiroshima thinks the world will end with them, but since I haven’t read the book under review, I don’t know whether the author attributes that to paranoid narcissism on the part of religions/particular groups of people in the same way that I would.

Sensible politics is when you know the world will never end and everything will continue more or less like it is now, forever

Anxiety as capitalism drains the planet of ice and water is a load of trot rubbish fellas!