Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

it really is astonishing to me the unresearched, fatuous bigotry that people who call themselves journalists feel okay putting their names to, but i don't know why, it's as old as the hills really

hangon is this the same wan whose friends all abandoned her for this same reason? she doesn't include an explanation of how they all came around to transphobia and are now totally with her. what an eejit.

ooh! 'Tankies Have Taken Over My Webforum' has a nice ring to it

― imago, Monday, 21 February 2022 bookmarkflaglink

You should pitch.

per an article from last year, she lost "at least a dozen" friends over being a transphobe & didn't at all understand why being an obsessive bigot was a friendship dealbreaker so my guess is by now the only ones left are those who completely agree with her, as that article suggests

yeah funny how that works

Adrian Chiles' latest is even better in context pic.twitter.com/s7JLqNPuCA

— future canon (@futurecanon) February 24, 2022

Now more than ever this is the Guardian content we deserve

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/feb/25/you-be-the-judge-is-it-ok-for-my-boyfriend-to-keep-butter-in-the-cupboard

ah fuck jury duty again?

Some people asking why no Chelsea in this article. Why do you think? It’s not for a lack of will believe me https://t.co/nXfCcsti7b

— Barney Ronay (@barneyronay) February 26, 2022

im not in any way invested in the guardian as a bastion of anything, nor even a facsimile of a bastion that is the closest thing you might hope for in this world, but this is a shocker

Because - he's saying it's been censored?

it's not a lack of will, it's a lack of remembering to mention him

From the same correspondent:

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2022/mar/05/shane-warnes-death-is-like-that-of-a-friend-and-gets-worse-with-each-hour

Extreme headline.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bz2YNYpCYAE6mBR.jpg

I have been consumed by grief ever since I heard Neil Warnock was killed by a frozen ice javelin of piss.... blah blah ..from the rosy-cheeked stripling to the gloriously grizzled and statesmanlike Yoda-Warnock of 2005, with his lovable little flared white trousers, his ennobling air of gravitas.

lol what a dickhead

I remember his ennobling air of gravitas when he said "Boris Johnson is good.. Brexit is good..now you just need to vote for Boris and bloody well get brexit done me old cobbers!"

you could just say he was the greatest spin bowler of the century and work on from there rather than pretending he was your dearly departed gentle and benevolent uncle.

op-ed on feminism by ... Rachel Reeves.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/06/progress-women-international-womens-day-labour-party

Zoe Williams:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/08/i-accidentally-took-my-kids-to-a-jeremy-corbyn-rally-how-could-i-explain-stop-the-war-to-them

Yes: "I accidentally took my kids to a Jeremy Corbyn rally – how could I explain Stop the War to them?" - it's real.

appreciative, tinkling chuckles ensue

There were some homemade signs, but two banners centrally produced, one uncontroversial: “No to Nuclear War.” The other was more problematic, drawing an elliptical but discernible equivalence between Putin’s aggression and Nato’s “expansion”, by saying “no” to both. This was quite complicated.

Why is she describing the second banner in such a coy way? Does she mean it says " Stop the War. Russian troops out! No NATO expansion" ?

I'm sure her pre-teen kids are quite capable of using wikipedia. Stop the War event ≠ 'Jeremy Corbyn rally, of course.

NATO expansion is good now?

‘War is bad because it kills people’

got no problem with this sentiment nor how it is expressed, even if dickhead posh guardian liberals who identify as left-wing because they once went on an ANL demo in '91 are going to ridicule it as "student politics" or naive.

I have watched the whole of the speech that JC gave in Trafalgar Square - last Saturday I think. It's excellent. It warns of the horror of nuclear war. In case anyone was wondering, it extensively condemns Vladimir Putin - not something that ZW would want us to know.

Quite something how she flaunts her ignorance. I'm sure it's intended as "relatable" self-deprecation but there's no reason not to take it at face value. The piece seems like it's leading up to how she explains the war to her children, the nuance involved in "No to NATO Expansion, No to Putin" - but she just ends the column instead. She gets paid for this?

She gets paid for this?

I never read any of these people because I can barely get past a couple of paragraphs without this question screaming in my brain.

They pay brisk money for this... oh wait, sorry wrong thread.

OK, I understand why she is finding it hard to explain an anti-war rally.

Some people have difficulty explaining biscuits..

Isn't that an Adrian Chiles column?

haha!

williams has been emulating chiles more as sodha has been heading into melanie phillips territory. identity crisis!

That's the politics of your paper, didn't you know?

Just had an email from LinkedIn saying the Guardian is looking for a political editor, which is good to know.

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) March 10, 2022

Lol, couldn’t happen to a nicer person

She’s now claiming that she was only surprised that Linkedin was advertising to her, and that she already had plans to move to “another part of the Guardian” but that’s certainly not how the first tweet reads.

Bit of personal news from me: after 6 mad, wonderful years as political editor, I'm breaking out of Westminster.
I'll be the Guardian's new special correspondent - reporting on how the pandemic, and Brexit, are changing lives and livelihoods; and keeping an eye on "levelling up".

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) February 25, 2022

she announced it herself weeks ago

reporting on how the pandemic, and Brexit, are changing lives and livelihoods; and keeping an eye on "levelling up"

oh wow, bookmarked

maybe her new roving reporter position wasn't as it was sold to her and she isn't happy about it, but u love to see it!

not to defend her political editing (it sucked) but the first tweet is easy enough to read as the joke it's meant to be (she's pretending to find informative and useful a thing she already knew)

That would be more believable if I didn’t know a fashion editor there at one time who found their own job advertised suddenly and was not expecting it at all - and because she hadn’t done the full two years couldn’t even nab them for constructive dismissal.

ok but stewart evidently was expecting it, she announced herself weeks ago as calz points out

Fair enough but it does seem designed to elicit "oh noes how can they be so horrible to you" etc.

Actually relatively good by Ronay's recent standards

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/mar/07/manchester-united-derby-reaction-roy-keane-media

though it includes his bad and annoying tic: "There are two things worth saying about this. First, no useful purpose is served here."

Wondering what they have planned for us tomorrow

I know Hadley Freeman writes utter tripe during the weekdays but The Observer houses an astonishing amount of shit by itself.

just like clockwork: https://www.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/20/observer-view-cass-review-gender-identity-services-young-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Well ok now. Detailed thread from OJ on Suzanne Moore and office Pol re: trans rights.

OK everyone, this is boring, there's one trillion more important things in the world, and I'm sorry to inflict this on your timeline!

For the last few years, Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore has had, let's say, a bit of a grudge against me.

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 6, 2022

So this is the second time that The Guardian has simultanously published a piece by Susanna Rustin (broadly against trans equality) and a counter-piece by Zoe Williams (broadly pro). This is clearly how The Guardian plans to triangulate around the whole issue. pic.twitter.com/6tETuPgK5r

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 7, 2022

ironically both articles criticise Labour for not having a consistent policy

Quite the final sentence in this: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/06/jimmy-savile-a-british-horror-story-review-a-welter-of-devastating-detail

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/trans-people-mental-health-crisis-point-uk-warn-experts

Trans people’s mental health is at crisis point in UK, warn experts

Helplines report rising demand, as conversion practices decision follows years of ‘negativity from government, media and others’

ffs