Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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!

not sure what the reaction is supposed to be to this except "good, off you fuck then"

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus

I hope someone organizes a mob to chuck rotting fruit and vegetables at him as he boards the plane to leave the UK (hopefully never to return).

the case they are making for him being a net benefit to the UK seems to be

* he's a landlord
* he was going to list his company on the FTSE

oh no sir please don't leave us and take all the money that you don't pay any tax on with you, whatever will we do without you

good that the Guardian's "Wealth Correspondent" is asking all the tough questions to our feckless playboy billionaire overlords

https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet-review-proto-punk-star-comic-at-his-70s-peak

At the Dublin show, a heckler shouts “IRA!” and Connolly replies acidly: “I’d love to hear you say that at Ibrox [Rangers’ stadium in Glasgow] …!” It’s amazing, from this modern perspective, to experience again how sectarianism was a violent and normalised fact of life in the 70s.

Talk about living in a London media bubble!

that is actually insane, even for the guardian.

In Belfast, Connolly prudently drops any material about the Troubles, perhaps because he simply and understandably doesn’t want to take the risk.

Or it could possibly be because he didn't have any, except maybe the song about when he was in the Terries.

When he arrives at Belfast airport, Connolly chats amiably to soldiers from 15th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, which he was once with as a Terrritorial Army reserve, and we hear his melancholy song about this on stage, Weekend Soldier‚ easily the best part of his show.

Oh look, that one.

Yeah because there's no way that would be interpreted as taking sides.

or his long, well documented history of sycophantic royal brownnosing

LOL like any comedian from Glasgow was going to have "material" about the Troubles. You'd may as well paint a target on your forehead.