Is the Guardian music worse than it used to be?
― marcel the shell with swag on (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 16 August 2022 15:19 (two years ago) link
Imagine the differences if this had been published by the UK rather than the Australian wing of the paper:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/aug/17/ellia-green-former-australian-rugby-sevens-star-olympic-gold-medallist-comes-out-as-trans-man
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Wednesday, 17 August 2022 07:08 (two years ago) link
UK headline would at least start with the word "controversy"
I don't have the heart to find out whether the usual are complaining about erasing women, pretending he's actually a trans woman, or doing both at once somehow. but I'll probably have to hear about it soon anyway
― Left, Wednesday, 17 August 2022 09:39 (two years ago) link
Nice to be able to walk away from it all.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/aug/29/rory-stewart-politics-privilege-podcast-stardom
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 29 August 2022 08:31 (two years ago) link
Ugh don't know why I even started reading that... not that I got very far.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 29 August 2022 09:43 (two years ago) link
Still nice to see former Celtic midfield stalwart, Murdo MacLeod, takes a good photo.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Monday, 29 August 2022 09:46 (two years ago) link
'the snake-pit of coalface politics' is a line that could do with some expanding on
― nashwan, Monday, 29 August 2022 10:24 (two years ago) link
I also wonder whether Campbell and Stewart aren’t more ideologically aligned than they suggest. They are white, centrist Scottish men who have been booted out of their parties.
― conrad, Monday, 29 August 2022 10:58 (two years ago) link
lol lmao wow
― rob, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:15 (two years ago) link
Fair play to the Graun for managing not to put a picture of Rib Rensenbrink on the cover today
― Led By Honkies (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 9 September 2022 13:31 (two years ago) link
Rob Rensenbrink lol
‘Much more than a figurehead’: how the Queen was the beating heart of the Commonwealth
so it's fucking dead too then?
― rob, Friday, 9 September 2022 13:35 (two years ago) link
Is ham bourgeois, or not:https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/09/good-food-west-virginia-supper-club
"(Amy Dawson) had grown up being told everything about West Virginia was backwards, and a sweating ham sitting on the kitchen counter seemed emblematic of that.
(However) in the UK, where I am from, having a Spanish or Italian ham shoulder or leg on your kitchen counter is now a status symbol: it communicates being cultured and well-travelled enough to know about delicacies from the European continent, having the money to buy it (they can cost upwards of $350) and, oftentimes, owning the expensive, fancy equipment to slice it."
It's a potentially interesting story - it would be nice to know when prawn sandwiches went from luxury food to naff to imitation luxury food to staple of football matches to nothingness - but it's really boring. It feels like an advert for a little clique of people who eat food at a long table (apparently for hours, because one of the photos is at night).
I realise you can't tell what people are like from looking at them, but the photographs put me in mind of the old "things white people like" blog from many years ago.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 9 September 2022 19:53 (two years ago) link
I really can't believe how much they're fawning over Brenda; this might be the worst of all: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/sep/10/farewell-your-majesty-cartoon-the-queen
― ledge, Sunday, 11 September 2022 11:35 (two years ago) link
All else aside it’s discomfitingly childish. Goo goo ga ga shit
― Wiggum Dorma (wins), Sunday, 11 September 2022 11:45 (two years ago) link
riddell is hands down my least favourite political cartoonist, his colour sense just fkn reeks
― mark s, Sunday, 11 September 2022 11:51 (two years ago) link
The UK gets like that on these occasions. I think the thing that gets me most is the sheer scale of the play acting that goes on, I can't bear it.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:01 (two years ago) link
The amount of fawning coverage the Guardian has devoted to the Queen is appalling. It's getting pretty North Korean in the UK right now, I mean I know republicans are in a minority, but not by so much, it's maybe 40/60? Let's hear their voices too for Christ's sake.
― Zelda Zonk, Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:03 (two years ago) link
I saw t'other day that one of the Graun's other crap cartoonists (Edith Pritchett) is Matt's daughter. I bet that was a short job interview.
― calzino, Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:05 (two years ago) link
wait, is there no cartoon yet from matt himself?
his slicey bois have been silenced
― mark s, Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link
out of respect, no cock and balls this week
Difficult to draw when your tears are making the ink run.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:31 (two years ago) link
counterpoint: he knows his savage republican views are not wanted
― mark s, Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:39 (two years ago) link
Matt: the frenemy within
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 September 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
Republicanism is 25/75 - higher the older you get, of course, but even the 18-24 year olds (barely) support the monarchy https://www.statista.com/statistics/863893/support-for-the-monarchy-in-britain-by-age/
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 11 September 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
Sorry: lower the older you get.
It's mostly superficial and wishy washy and people saying what they think they should say, a few years of KC3 might upset the apple cart.
― Buckfast At Tiffany's (Tom D.), Sunday, 11 September 2022 19:29 (two years ago) link
a few 😬 gifs even
― mark s, Sunday, 11 September 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
this week Zoe Williams didn't listen to the radio, but she might listen to it again in the future. How much money is she paid for this shit? She is no Chiles, that's for sure.https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/the-radio-was-the-soundtrack-to-my-life-but-i-turned-it-off-a-week-ago-and-may-never-turn-it-back-on
― link.exposing.politically (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:24 (two years ago) link
They dedicated the Today programme to her before the 9 o’clock pips this morning.
― Madchen, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 18:41 (two years ago) link
i listen to the radio all the time and tbh there were bits of the World Service, Radio 3 and some sport on 5 Live that were completely listenable, don't know what kind of shit ZW listens to cos i'm not reading anything of hers on purpose
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 19:57 (two years ago) link
maybe Times Radio. I alternated between R3 and Jazz fm for some modicum of sanity. The latter were playing Miles Davis and Kenny Burrell tracks and the presenter was saying this is music inspired by locations QEIII was also inspired by!
― calzino, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:09 (two years ago) link
after the first couple of days a lot of BBC radio was normal enough if you picked your spots
― feudal vague (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:17 (two years ago) link
I don't why I made Lilibet the third, it's her son who's the thurd - but nm
oh yeah there was still some programming left. I was even much more grateful than usual for the NPR shite that was broadcast on WS. Just anything would have done in these circumstances. Some might counter why not just go on bbc sounds and pick some program that suits you, which is fair but sometimes you just don't want to make any decisions.
― calzino, Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:24 (two years ago) link
and the presenter was saying this is music inspired by locations QEIII was also inspired by!
lol that's an astonishing reach, but if it that's what it takes for the guy to play his jazz in peace...
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
in the annals of who embarrassed or disgraced themselves since the passing (so-called) of E2R i am going to state for the record that cartoonist matt earned his pay and nailed it! by *not* disgracing or embarrassing himself in his wry sideways look etc etc
― mark s, Wednesday, 21 September 2022 10:48 (two years ago) link
The Observer, but...
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/02/if-labour-is-truly-the-party-of-equality-it-wouldnt-shut-down-the-trans-debate
― AlanSmithee, Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:18 (two years ago) link
there's a y in the day, and the Guardian Media Group are platforming hate speech as per
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 2 October 2022 20:48 (two years ago) link
genuinely chilling. the kind of thing i would have expected in the heyday of the daily mail.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 October 2022 08:09 (two years ago) link
Save us from former Ed Miliband advisors passing themselves off as journalists or, perplexingly, comedians.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Monday, 3 October 2022 08:19 (two years ago) link
And people wonder why we hate British comedy.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 3 October 2022 08:24 (two years ago) link
The 40 and 60 are both much lower than that, 'I dont care's surely outnumber republicans, possibly monarchists too
― anvil, Monday, 3 October 2022 08:30 (two years ago) link
I think the "I'm not a royalist but..." brigade outnumber both. For the moment anyway.
― Fronted by a bearded Phil Collins (Tom D.), Monday, 3 October 2022 10:32 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/03/how-we-met-i-like-to-think-of-myself-as-rational-but-this-felt-like-love-at-first-sight
It's crazy how they publish both the trans debate piece and the one above.
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 3 October 2022 12:22 (two years ago) link
Optimistic.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/03/tories-heading-for-oblivion-u-turns-kwarteng-truss-45p-tax-rate
― the pinefox, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 09:43 (two years ago) link
i've been waiting for tory oblivion since eu tensions were due to tear them apart long before brexit. call me when it happens.
― ledge, Tuesday, 4 October 2022 09:45 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/06/dining-across-the-divide-being-two-blokes-in-middle-age-we-did-talk-a-bit-about-military-history
"An IT worker and a barrister are both interested in policing. But where do they stand on Brexit?"
Literally, surprisingly, written by ... Zoe Williams.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 October 2022 12:07 (two years ago) link
"Richard He was over a decade younger than me. He’d got longish hair and a beard, whereas I’m clean-shaven, but otherwise he looked a normal chap.
Doug I had chilli prawns, chicken and then a lemon tart."
― the pinefox, Thursday, 6 October 2022 12:08 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/08/i-thought-my-boyfriend-of-10-years-was-going-to-propose-then-he-told-me-he-was-transgender
never not at it
― saigo no ice cream (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 8 October 2022 20:11 (two years ago) link