Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Can see why he loves proper working class folk and their music then

it's been a very successful grift for nearly 30 years, and he doesn't have a backup grift to fall back on?

This list has lots of people I expected to see, and also plenty I didn't.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_University_of_Oxford_people_with_PPE_degrees

Strong argument for nuking Oxford

Non-UK Politicians is where that really kicks off imo

oh wait hang on it subsequently kicks off even more. Will Self!

oh shit actually all the architects of doom are there. my god

Self may be the least objectionable person on that list

that isn't far off the truth

There are quite a few people I like, Dennis Potter did it too! But the list is about 25% straight-up evil and another 50% are we could say "overachievers" in their professional lives

It's the journalists that really sting. They're all in the same nauseating club as the cunts they're meant to be holding to account

Paul Gambaccini!

less PPE more PPE

I need some PPE to protect me from PPE's

to controps a wee bit on this, the issue with oxford PPE as a degree is that it is (or anyway was) capacious enough to sport a large ambitious subset happy to go all in as a kind of club or gang of backslapping n backwatching n backstabbing wronguns on the rise together

(lol i think 9 ppl in all took the same combined finals as me <-- indie as fvck)

UK weather: 'messy mix' of wintry conditions expected

this article has been hanging around the UK headlines front page for a couple of days now. i tend to have an adverse reaction to weather journalism anyway but the sum total of this seems to be “it’s winter”? for noobs?

It’s Britain. This is what we read.

https://www.theguardian.com/food/2021/feb/06/in-praise-of-eggs-use-them-like-a-broom-to-sweep-everything-together

I tried this but my kitchen floor ended up even filthier than before.

best sticking to playing table tennis with them

it only works if your mates have a spare flat to keep your eggs in

i, for one, lolled

Very brave of Marina to go after her entire audience like this. pic.twitter.com/oJOiRGeZXw

— Shrieking Tinman (@phased_bemused) February 6, 2021

Context aside, idk how well the Guardian approach of hiring people prominent on Twitter and trying to control what they post there will work.

One of the most serious threats to free speech is the silencing of criticism of the government of Israel.

I have now found this out the hard way, having just been fired as a Guardian columnist for sending a tweet about US military aid to Israel https://t.co/EEfLqjY1IM

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) February 10, 2021

are we sure it's not because they finally read his work

truly appreciate the many supportive tweets beginning "I can't stand Nathan Robinson, BUT" or "Nathan Robinson is an insufferable preening grifter ponce, BUT"

— Nathan J Robinson (@NathanJRobinson) February 10, 2021

haha

i was going to say maybe they saw his clobber

that tweet is honestly the most human-sounding verbal expression i've ever seen from nathan j robinson

Haha I listened to him read the audiobook about being a socialist and he reminded me of every socialist I met at the Oxford union

This is something..

https://amp.theguardian.com/books/2021/feb/11/naim-attallah-obituary?

The obituarist died before the subject of the obituary.

Yes, always like it when that happens.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/14/race-gender-oppressed-can-be-oppressors-too-kemi-badenoch

Extraordinary stuff from Sonia Sodha in The Observer.

I guess having denounced the left as racist, ‘trans allies are no better than racists’ was inevitably next.

Oh yeah, “race traitor”, that concept and insult so common on the left.

it's like a vicar who can tell any anecdote from their life or the news and spin it to be about the sermon on the mount

the kind of people Ed had advising him as labour leader eh?

I’m pretty sure Bindel’s transphobia got her booted from The Guardian on more than one occasion before the editorial team lost the collective plot.

Still, good to see the BBC’s guidelines kicking in.

When it comes to race and gender, oppressed people can be oppressors too | Race | The Guardian https://t.co/DJmDtiq2NC

— emily m (@maitlis) February 14, 2021

Delayed action post: loved that obit, up thread.

Ah yes, today is Sunday again.

w/o naim attalah the wire would absolutely not have made out it of the 80s, or hired (or indeed fired) me lol

my new ethical consumption thing is im no longer clicking on guardian etc hate reads and from now on will only post cached via archive.org as i refuse to give them their hate clicks. actual journalism stuff is fine, but not their 'why transphobia is not only the best strategy for labour, but morally correct' think pieces. i invite you all to join me in this high-minded and self-satisfied activity.

I've been doing that for a while now, which, along with the fact that I'm not British and don't live in the UK, explains why I hate The Guardian less than some of you. Ignorance is bliss.

Isn’t this what dumptheguardian is for?

Of course this counts as BREAKING NEWS:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/feb/14/harry-meghan-duke-duchess-sussex-second-child

as lex once posted: guillotine it!

: )

one one hand yes of course, on the other hand still reeling from this breaking news from yesterday

William and Kate Are Reportedly Trying for Baby #4 and Queen Elizabeth Has Been Informed https://t.co/YqTKsTNSrR

— Cosmopolitan (@Cosmopolitan) February 12, 2021

Is the spunk blue too?

red white and green.