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
Perfectly normal behaviour https://t.co/XuDubJbITb— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) October 3, 2021
― michel goindry (wins), Thursday, 1 June 2023 10:03 (one year ago) link
Maybe also why NC got paid off.
It doesn't remotely excuse the organisations who covered up for him, but a not-insignificant reason people (even people he mistreated) kept quiet about Nick is ... pity. https://t.co/HCqhM5PJuZ— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 June 2023 11:14 (one year ago) link
One of the people that RT-ed that tweet is one of the victims
Taken me a while to want to comment on this. What I will say is that lots of people have self-disgust and despair. Most of us don't attempt to disseminate that stuff to the people around us. And if we find we have hurt someone, we take responsibility and we say sorry to them. https://t.co/7T8aqWZ9Au— S Richards (@Sus_Richards) June 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 June 2023 11:23 (one year ago) link
15. Reporting on the recent CBI sexual assault charges @guardian quotes former CBI president, “People decided to go to the newspapers and not speak to us directly, which in itself points to something wrong with our culture,” [Damian McBride of CBI]— lucy siegle (@lucysiegle) June 1, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:06 (one year ago) link
Is that the Damian McBride?
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:40 (one year ago) link
apparently the former CBI president is Brian McBride, Graun pieces vmic
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:45 (one year ago) link
lol
― Maggot Bairn (Tom D.), Thursday, 1 June 2023 17:51 (one year ago) link
The word you're looking for is 'shot'. https://t.co/Qiq9HxewgD— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 8, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 9 June 2023 08:23 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/11/labour-opposition-power-keir-starmer-party
Harris considers the possibility that KS might be authoritarian in power.
Along the way he naturally asserts that JC was similar.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 11 June 2023 11:45 (one year ago) link
absolutely insane paragraph to publish pic.twitter.com/CDVBF46jYF— Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor (@eff_hey) June 11, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 11 June 2023 22:16 (one year ago) link
the gulag is too good for these
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 11 June 2023 23:57 (one year ago) link
Say what you like about Hitler, at least he had rules
― Zelda Zonk, Monday, 12 June 2023 00:47 (one year ago) link