My daughter has been to K Jones's house! Apparently, it is MASSIVE. School pals. I think she'll get a kick out of that article. She revels in the absurdity and boringness of All Dads.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 13 April 2023 10:23 (one year ago) link
"In lockdown, when everybody walked the Earth, it niggled me again."
― the pinefox, Thursday, 13 April 2023 10:37 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/12/banished-to-boomer-island-tales-of-a-menopausal-gen-xer-for-hire
― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:01 (one year ago) link
wow, if I was writing something with the goal of discrediting generational analysis I couldn't do better
― rob, Thursday, 13 April 2023 20:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/17/astrology-stars-art-understanding-restrictive
I’ve been in the grip of astrology all my life, so why am I turning my back on the stars? - Daisy Jones
Smug detractors may roll their eyes, but this ancient art gave me a deep understanding of who I am – until it began to feel restrictive
― the pinefox, Thursday, 20 April 2023 12:17 (one year ago) link
Observer leader writer and columnist promotes a Times review attacking J. Maugham KC.
“It is all downhill from the book’s very first, unforgivable sentence: “The life I have is hard, but I got to choose it, and the road that brought me here I did not.” Is this a song lyric? What does it even mean? Does Penguin no longer employ editors?"https://t.co/ilrQwHZssc— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) April 22, 2023
― the pinefox, Saturday, 22 April 2023 14:44 (one year ago) link
God they are so clueless.
"PT Barnum famously declared that there is no such thing as bad publicity but the American showman might have revised his opinion on seeing Monday’s events unfold. While there’s no doubt they have their supporters, the protesters’ actions have been roundly criticised, and one suspects none of the snooker fans present in the theatre or watching at home will be rushing to glue their hands to the Sheffield Parkway dual carriageway in solidarity any time soon."
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/22/empty-pockets-how-snooker-can-reduce-the-temptation-of-match-fixing
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 23 April 2023 09:35 (one year ago) link
Helen Lewis:
Marina Hyde’s column gets a pass here [...] Her column works because she’s Marina Goddamn Hyde, that’s why
https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-vol-226
― the pinefox, Sunday, 23 April 2023 19:26 (one year ago) link
contra the thread question, just a shout out for Heather Stewart who is consistently excellent:
https://www.theguardian.com/profile/heatherstewart
― Tracer Hand, Saturday, 29 April 2023 21:24 (one year ago) link
Oops.
https://news.sky.com/story/the-guardian-pulls-cartoon-of-outgoing-bbc-boss-richard-sharp-after-antisemitism-backlash-12869197
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 April 2023 08:27 (one year ago) link
"Likewise, the cute squid and the little Rishi were no more than that, a cartoon squid and a short Prime Minister,
A big "oh come on" at this bit.
― nashwan, Sunday, 30 April 2023 11:07 (one year ago) link
Deafening silence from all those Guardian writers who were only too willing to associate Corbyn with anti-Semitism.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 30 April 2023 11:17 (one year ago) link
rowson is just another trenchant melt but he seems to think he's goya
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 30 April 2023 11:21 (one year ago) link
Libs not getting it shocker. Burning the country and risking life against police is nostalgia?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/may/01/france-gone-to-hell-politics-nostalgia?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 May 2023 15:50 (one year ago) link
a classic slice of above-it-all smugness, for when you've got no skin in the game
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Monday, 1 May 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry
would it not be possible to report on all this (an undoubtedly worthy subject) without all the whinging about someone being mean to you on Twitter?
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 2 May 2023 14:55 (one year ago) link
She is totally twitter poisoned. That inquiry has still some way to go?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
This post office scandal...I had totally missed it, which is crazy. But looking at it last night I see it's been very much widely reported over the years.
What is Marina Hyde on about?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 10:31 (one year ago) link
Also...the Guardian are no strangers to doing week long reporting on a thing? Panama papers, Charles, etc. Couldn't they do a week long splash on this scandal?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 May 2023 10:33 (one year ago) link
she's right insofar as it hasn't received the level of coverage it should have done, but that's to do with structural problems in British political-media circles, not because people are scolding JK Rowling on social media
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Wednesday, 3 May 2023 10:34 (one year ago) link
Guardian reporters can take the high ground today.
Whatever your views on the monarchy, these pictures should chill you. https://t.co/oAPe5McmPr— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) May 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 6 May 2023 10:54 (one year ago) link
A Guardian journo taking the high ground, amazed she left it till the 5th paragraph before the anti-trans idée fixe kicked in. Yes I know it's Sunday so what can you expect
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/07/police-are-curbing-free-speech-not-just-at-behest-of-right-crackdown-mall
― hellboy falling through the bar (Matt #2), Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:42 (one year ago) link
These people are obsessed.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Sunday, 7 May 2023 14:45 (one year ago) link
congrats to the LAPPL on finding a new stenographer
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/los-angeles-police-department-records-release-undercover-identities
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Tuesday, 9 May 2023 17:33 (one year ago) link
when you're the heir to an amphetamine fortune pic.twitter.com/HjAR3YREJC— David East (@davideastUK) May 10, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 08:09 (one year ago) link
lol!
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 08:39 (one year ago) link
I'm sure she wrote for Sounds in the late 70's. Not read it but it's worth remembering that Thatcher considered sleep quite overrated and inessential.
― calzino, Wednesday, 10 May 2023 08:43 (one year ago) link
"faster you fuckers" is no way to live
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 10 May 2023 09:55 (one year ago) link
Really enjoyed reading a column, for a change.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/14/my-father-is-obese-and-i-cant-stand-being-around-him-ask-philippa-perry
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:16 (one year ago) link
my column would've been "Fuck off"
― contrapuntal aversion (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 14 May 2023 09:42 (one year ago) link
Would be an improvement
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 14 May 2023 14:26 (one year ago) link
Liew is really good. Just laying out the facts, plainly and simply
"So you don’t just sign Erling Haaland, you sign Julián Álvarez to give him a rest. Kalvin Phillips arrives for £45m, doesn’t play all season, and it’s fine. You decide – and just reflect on the breathtaking audacity of this for a second – that you need an upgrade on Phil Foden, and so up pops Jack Grealish. If someone accuses you of breaking the rules, you hire the world’s greatest lawyers to shoot them down. This is perfection, but not so much the perfection of great art as the perfection of a finely-executed military campaign, the perfection of unlimited wealth, the perfection of political strength, the perfection of a pointless mile-high crystal pyramid in the middle of the desert. No academy players and no Mancunians started for City last night. Does this matter? Does anything matter?"
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/17/manchester-citys-inexorable-hard-power-crushes-real-madrid
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 18 May 2023 07:43 (one year ago) link
I'm hoping Inter spend the entire match in their own half and then win on penalties.
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 18 May 2023 08:28 (one year ago) link
First headline article on the site this morning, have you ever read such a piece of shite?https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/21/senior-tories-say-trump-style-takeover-could-precipitate-party-meltdown
The former cabinet minister Matt Hancock told the Observer: “The Conservative party is finished if it succumbs to a Trumpian-style takeover. These Conservative Corbynistas are as destructive to the Tories as leftwing activists were to Labour.
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 21 May 2023 06:19 (one year ago) link
Lets pretend there is a meaningful distinction between the right and the so-called moderates of the Tories because it helps to feed an illusion of a political pluralism that doesn't really exist.
They are mostly all parroting more or less the same illiberal Trumpian stuff re: trans rights, law and order and immigration policy (as are Labour), sure some of them use more openly fascistic rhetoric. And some of them are still sore about the electorally suicidal Truss tax cuts getting shitcanned, and plus are divided on what position to take on nimbyism. But I'd only call them factions in the sense of they are intra-party cliques of rivals who hate each other.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 May 2023 08:48 (one year ago) link
Calzino OTM.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 21 May 2023 09:31 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/national-conservatism-conference-leftwing-dark-age
This piece hits on some of the points Calzino is making. But I also felt that this was as much about where do the always unhappy racists go after they've been given everything they want through Brexit.
And Brexit was a 25 year project for these freaks. It was laughed at the beginning like this was.
The biggest issues for this to work are decline of newspapers and the decline of the state that gives a sizeable portion of people security and faith in what it does. It just won't deliver pensions and retirement and secure housing.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 21 May 2023 11:54 (one year ago) link
The Guardian has treated the Nat-C event with kid gloves mostly, even putting a video on YouTube titled 'The most memorable moments from...'.
― nashwan, Sunday, 21 May 2023 12:08 (one year ago) link
NEW: Seven women say the columnist Nick Cohen groped them or made unwanted sexual advances while he was at The Observer.A Financial Times reporter had the story, but her editor killed it. https://t.co/ETopgAUW25— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) May 30, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 07:33 (one year ago) link
the wall of silence in UK media from so-called respectable journos and suppression of reportage that enabled and protected an offender for years must seem quite fucked up from the outside. That accompanying NYT pic looked like a Constable painting on my phone.
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 07:56 (one year ago) link
once again the NYT putting the British press to shame, god knows the Grey Lady has its problems but at least it manages to do some actual journalism now and again
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 08:12 (one year ago) link
another inevitable angle to this story of evil people revelling in evil
Hearing reports that the "gender criticals" are far less motivated by their opposition to misogyny than by their obsessive hatred of trans people, huge if true https://t.co/LdtPvNtnRZ— Juliet. (@zinovievletter) May 30, 2023
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:00 (one year ago) link
is that D L I see on the thread of transphobic journos and degenerate creeps who were dismissing this as a whispering campaign against Cohen? shurely shome mistake
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:13 (one year ago) link
"these are false accusations from trans activists and Putinists" is a very normal line to take amongst this whole crowd of monsters
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:17 (one year ago) link
NC often appears on Podmasters programmes, where DL is also a contributor. Lay the blame for 🐙 continued appearances at the feet of Podmaster in chief/ex-Select editor Andrew Harrison rather than DL.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:24 (one year ago) link
when did DL stop posting on here? he was still around when I started. maybe he's still here, who knows?
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:30 (one year ago) link
xp I don't think anyone *blames* the tv am egg looking prick for anything to do with Cohen. Just pointing out the crowd he's running with. Not like anyone would care if he wasn't an ex-poster here
― Toploader on the road, unite and take over (Bananaman Begins), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 09:46 (one year ago) link
After women complained of Nick Cohen's behaviour, it's embarrassing that Hadley's take is "look how the New York Times is mocking us Brits" pic.twitter.com/10GzthINCu— RobotMaths (@robotmaths) May 30, 2023
― Tsar Bombadil (James Morrison), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:08 (one year ago) link
even if he was constantly pissed for years, what kind of excuse is that? if anything it makes their silence and complicity even worse
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 13:22 (one year ago) link
Feel like this is now a recurring pattern in the Guardian:
Cost of living crisis? Won't somebody think of the shopkeepers?!?!https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/jun/01/one-guy-uses-us-like-a-larder-the-british-shoplifting-crisis-as-seen-from-the-tills
Risk of Labour doing something moderately progressive? Won't somebody think of the smaller private schools?!?!https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/may/31/small-independent-schools-on-labour-private-school-tax-policy
― Piedie Gimbel, Thursday, 1 June 2023 09:18 (one year ago) link