you have to make some thorny choices sometimes when your job is to be the most celebrated and utterly hilarious arch-cynic columnist in the UK and regularly impress some of the worst people in the country.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 18:35 (one year ago) link
Hyde has mentioned that her own anger at herself had been edited out and she's requested that it be put back into the article.
― djh, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:24 (one year ago) link
The 2009 opinion piece screenshotted above is directly mentioned, but not linked to - which is fair dos imo, as it would just re-amplify the original abuse.
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 19:57 (one year ago) link
also it would remind the reader of what a fucking arsehole she is
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 19 September 2023 20:42 (one year ago) link
so fucking grim
― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:25 (one year ago) link
can't believe i got taken in!
― mike t-diva, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 bookmarkflaglink
Maybe. Or maybe she could think about not giving an opinion anymore, given what disgraceful stuff she was writing back then.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 19 September 2023 22:33 (one year ago) link
The Guardian has edited their review of Sex Education to remove the explicit transphobia that Lucy Mangan had previously included.— Jess O'Thomson ♿️ 🏳️⚧️ (@jessothomson) September 21, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 September 2023 09:35 (one year ago) link
My partner was involved in making the new series of Sex Ed so I was googling reviews yesterday and I misguidedly ended up on mumsnet, where there are multiple threads on that Mangan review. The brainworms are genuinely terrifying.
― Piedie Gimbel, Friday, 22 September 2023 10:27 (one year ago) link
Lucy Mangan is a massive TERF but one who has flown under the radar until now.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 22 September 2023 12:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/03/kemi-badenoch-next-tory-leader-not-bad-thing-for-party
"For all the hysteria of modern Westminster, Sunak has steered his ship from a tempest into calmer waters with some dignity."
Gets worse from that point.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 09:25 (one year ago) link
"She must be right that the crippling cost of climate-change policies should be publicly argued if they are to be obeyed."
You can argue with floods or 40+ degree heat.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 3 October 2023 09:26 (one year ago) link
He missed out the part about her being an awful Christian fundamentalist bigot.
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 10:19 (one year ago) link
The Guardian trumpeting its anti-establishment credentials at the same time as Guardian Europe – the initiative this is launching – is prostrate in terror at the idea of anti-establishment politics of any stripe. pic.twitter.com/hQ9SlIL9pg— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) October 3, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 4 October 2023 13:18 (one year ago) link
I think you’ll find that Israel simply ‘received’ 5000 rockets https://t.co/AUJnbeX0g0— sorry for the laugh (@SimplyAYT_) October 7, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 7 October 2023 10:36 (eleven months ago) link
As bad as she's always been tbf.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/labour-tame-policies-clean-energy-employment-housing-rachel-reeves
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:23 (eleven months ago) link
Jobcentres will stop the venomous culture of sanctions against “scroungers”, with positive support into work instead.
I have not seen anything to suggest they are going to change one thing about the UK benefits system in any way at all .. apart from pushing vulnerable people closer to death a bit harder with *positive support*. "Captain Ruthless" - lol, stfu you preposterous old fool.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Monday, 9 October 2023 20:43 (eleven months ago) link
"Rockstar reception for Reeves"
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 10 October 2023 07:48 (eleven months ago) link
Mind-blowingly racist article by Howard Jacobson today, admiringly retweeted by Sodha, Freeman etc
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/15/victim-blaming-is-a-crime-to-so-many-progressives-except-when-it-comes-to-jews
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:03 (eleven months ago) link
Where are all these people in the West who are celebrating the Hamas attack?
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:32 (eleven months ago) link
living in liberal war crimes fans' heads and not even having the decency to pay rent
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 October 2023 12:54 (eleven months ago) link
I knew we were heading this way when I started hearing sensible left liberal types recommending david baddiel's blackface apologetics book as the one thing you have to read if you want to understand these issues
― Left, Sunday, 15 October 2023 14:02 (eleven months ago) link
Steve Bell is not a hill worth dying on
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Monday, 16 October 2023 12:12 (eleven months ago) link
Toynbee, as ever, the consummate liberal.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/labour-ceasefire-gaza-israel-tear-apart
― The First Time Ever I Saw Gervais (Tom D.), Tuesday, 31 October 2023 10:18 (eleven months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/marine-le-pens-support-of-israel-seen-as-move-away-from-partys-antisemitic-past
Headline has changed from:
The Guardian@guardian·15hMarine Le Pen’s support of Israel seen as move away from party’s antisemitic past
To:
Le Pen’s anti-Islamism and support of Israel seen as attempt to obscure antisemitic past
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 6 November 2023 21:10 (eleven months ago) link
The more you hate muslims the less anti semitic u are, thems the rules
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Monday, 6 November 2023 21:26 (eleven months ago) link
lol oh guardianpaws
― Daniel_Rf, Tuesday, 7 November 2023 10:43 (ten months ago) link
The Guardian@guardianPeople in Gaza: how have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:25 (ten months ago) link
never let it be said the grauniad is afraid to ask the hard questions
― come on barbo let’s go parpo (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 11:43 (ten months ago) link
"I don't really watch the news, but the explosions are frightening my cat which is annoying"
― not anti-Skibidi Toilet per se (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 12:25 (ten months ago) link
"the real issue is does the IDF know what a woman is?"
― no gap tree for old men (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 8 November 2023 12:59 (ten months ago) link
Oh dear...
The Guardian took down a letter written by Osama Bin Laden because people on TikTok were discussing how he correctly blamed America for its role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by arming IsraelThe document was there for 20 + years. They removed it today. pic.twitter.com/35QTfh0FYA— شبير (@abolishnato) November 15, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:15 (ten months ago) link
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eeEyVZiVW_M/hqdefault.jpg
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 15 November 2023 23:25 (ten months ago) link
as has been pointed out elsewhere, still available at that seditious fifth column The Office of the Director of National Intelligence here
― Fizzles, Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:14 (ten months ago) link
let's face it, OBL wrote much less offensive and less bigoted hottakes than Sonia Sodha tbf
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 November 2023 08:25 (ten months ago) link
Giving Dorries an interview, fuck off
― nashwan, Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:20 (ten months ago) link
So they've shitcanned Steve Bell for, er, this
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4adb62a2af56178716a047868623926806fd03fd/0_45_4803_2882/master/4803.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a09263e9f14a48da6cd4564411571f9c
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:39 (ten months ago) link
(aware that Steve Bell splits opinion here, but fucking hell)
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:40 (ten months ago) link
you gotta be kidding
― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:41 (ten months ago) link
I thought it was a bit as well! But it's from Monday. As far as I can tell, it went out in the printed paper (maybe on Tuesday)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/guardian-comment-cartoon
― The narrative of arthur gordon pimp of nantucket (Bananaman Begins), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:43 (ten months ago) link
lol this is gonna be somebody's kid again
― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:44 (ten months ago) link
yeah never mind the “joke” why is the art style so childishly terrible? is this deliberate? i honestly am confused by this
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:46 (ten months ago) link
He says he has now been dropped. ‘It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for the Guardian now without being accused of deploying antisemitic tropes,’ he said. This is part of a wider trend.Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...
Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...
I'd completely missed that Bell had been pumped, bold move to replace him with a 16 yr old kid on a work experience placement
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Thursday, 16 November 2023 11:49 (ten months ago) link
GCSE students are capable of better work than that!
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:24 (ten months ago) link
What the fuck is going on with that letterbox?
― crisp, Thursday, 16 November 2023 12:33 (ten months ago) link
The guardians next cartoon?
https://www.bing.com/images/create/political-cartoon-about-british-lawmakers-losing-t/65565b561a554a1895684e28987e370e?id=QX6XkZzRVzOO4Zb11FwCtw%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay
― | (Latham Green), Thursday, 16 November 2023 18:14 (ten months ago) link
ai always seems to have trouble with flags (our flag specifically)
― koogs, Friday, 17 November 2023 15:30 (ten months ago) link
This is the usual terrible rubbish but the correction at the end made me lol:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/so-sorry-celebrities-but-you-should-take-a-tip-from-emily-blunt-before-you-offer-an-insincere-apology
― Ward Fowler, Friday, 17 November 2023 19:53 (ten months ago) link
Australian Graun writers are mostly awful. If I click on one by accident it’s not long before I click off.
― steely flan (suzy), Friday, 17 November 2023 20:00 (ten months ago) link
The guardian always guilting you into giving them money
― | (Latham Green), Friday, 17 November 2023 21:23 (ten months ago) link