i wondered if he was related to Steven Runciman and of course he his, nepo-politics forever
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 31 March 2024 15:42 (five months ago) link
nepo discourse comes from the aristocracy at last
― mark s, Sunday, 31 March 2024 16:16 (five months ago) link
Zoe sticking to the really important issues of the day.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/01/the-wags-are-back-but-i-miss-the-carefree-days-of-posh-and-coleen
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 07:58 (five months ago) link
Probably their oddest columnist. She writes a lot about health and fitness and about her personal life.
Alternating between something serious and this.
I read it as some acknowledgement that their politics is too awful to fling on to ppl every week.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 09:09 (five months ago) link
this may have become distorted in the rear view mirror but as far as I remember ZW was further to the left than most guardian commentators for a long time and a fairly vocal supporter of trans rights. when she started doing what suddenly seemed like loads more lifestyle fluff in a Tim Dowling style, I wondered whose call that was.
― verhexen, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 09:32 (five months ago) link
Still wrote a ton of lifestyle fluff for the Evening Standard before she joined the Guardian.
― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 09:51 (five months ago) link
i have a soft spot for zoe williams but dont feel compelled to read her
― plax (ico), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 10:41 (five months ago) link
didn't Zoe Williams used to be their sort of voice-of-youth columnist back in the day? Anyway, the oldest Zoe Williams column available on the guardian website is a list of '101 things we don't miss' published April 2001 that includes Roland Rat and Deely-Boppers, so her writing fluff pieces for them is not a new development
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2001/apr/21/weekend.zoewilliams2
― soref, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:10 (five months ago) link
I know her a little because we have many mutuals and I like her; she has no time for bigots or terfs, especially those in the media. She is definitely on the left despite going to private school in West London. Not crazy about the Poly Filla stuff she is asked to write, though. I say this all the time but columnists get their gigs because an editor becomes fascinated with some aspect of their lives and then they’re in that job forever. One huge reason her output has increased recently is that she has been seconded to Parliamentary sketch person while John Crace recuperates from his heart attack.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:43 (five months ago) link
should i be worried abt the heart-attack rate among senior guardian columnists? god keep chiles safe!
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 11:47 (five months ago) link
He doesn't have Jeremy Corbyn and Brexit living rent-free in his head.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 12:51 (five months ago) link
fluff is good again
― mark s, Tuesday, 2 April 2024 13:54 (five months ago) link
it just goes to show that centrism is even worse for health than heroin addiction
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 2 April 2024 16:17 (five months ago) link
Certainly at a policy level
― plax (ico), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 07:10 (five months ago) link
and at a personal cost for Crace, the burden of being a disgusting neoliberal shill led him to get his posh works out again and inject a heart attack inducing speedball into his balls!
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 07:45 (five months ago) link
omglol
― The Prime of the Ancient Minister (Tom D.), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 08:09 (five months ago) link
Say what?
Labour’s shadow chancellor says she is William Wragg incident and says it is right there is proper investigation
― Hunky Tory (Tom D.), Friday, 5 April 2024 13:28 (five months ago) link
"But Doctor, I am William Wragg incident"
― Ethinically Ambigaus (Bananaman Begins), Friday, 5 April 2024 16:27 (five months ago) link
lol
― Fizzles, Friday, 5 April 2024 16:29 (five months ago) link
As Rachel Reeves awoke one morning from uneasy dreams she found herself transformed in her bed into William Wragg incident.
― plax (ico), Saturday, 6 April 2024 18:07 (five months ago) link
Meltamorphosis
― subpost master (wins), Saturday, 6 April 2024 18:33 (five months ago) link
the foul insect-like creature was transformed into william wragg incident. It was a mixed bag but most certainly an upgrade of sorts.
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Saturday, 6 April 2024 18:52 (five months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/apr/09/m-and-s-invests-methane-burping-farting-cows
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 11:50 (five months ago) link
what a load of bullsh- ah, right yeah, that's literally what it's about
― glumdalclitch, Tuesday, 9 April 2024 12:08 (five months ago) link
just clicking on that graun website to see some more smouldering manure
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 9 April 2024 12:26 (five months ago) link
Not worse just the same old same old from these double dyed cunts.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/25/frank-field-lib-dems-progressive
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:04 (five months ago) link
Leaving the politics aside it's a piece of will-this-do crap and as political analysis it's inane.
― Not waving but droning (Tom D.), Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:13 (five months ago) link
Guardian declare for "Sir" Ed Davey now, you cowards!
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 25 April 2024 09:29 (five months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/apr/27/elite-force-bucks-trend-of-ukrainian-losses-on-eastern-front
I thought the Azov Brigade were a far-right militia. Am I mixing something up?
― rob, Saturday, 27 April 2024 12:50 (five months ago) link
it does briefly mention that in the article:
The 5,000-plus strong brigade has shed any far-right associations, relentlessly emphasised in Russian pre-invasion propaganda, and is one of the military’s elite forces, comprised entirely of volunteers.
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 27 April 2024 13:44 (five months ago) link
ah thanks, I genuinely missed that sentence
― rob, Saturday, 27 April 2024 13:45 (five months ago) link
would be good if they fleshed that out a bit though tbf
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 27 April 2024 13:46 (five months ago) link
Looks like bullshit to me
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:08 (five months ago) link
i also have shed any far right associations and if you don’t believe me just ask me more about it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:15 (five months ago) link
It's also saying yeah they were a bit fashy, but if you have a problem with that then you're just been played by putin
― Bernard Quidbins (NickB), Saturday, 27 April 2024 14:17 (five months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/apr/30/everything-must-go-by-dorian-lynskey-review-why-is-it-always-apocalypse-now
"In less skilled hands this 10-Armageddons-a-page pace might make for a depressing read, but Lynskey’s encyclopedic knowledge (we race from James Joyce to Joy Division, from Alan Turing to The Terminator)..."
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 09:39 (four months ago) link
It might feel that in 2024 the ways in which we can wreck the Earth are more numerous and potent than ever, but it was ever thus; the world has always been just about to end.
The first half of this sentence is absolutely true and the second half is delusional bullshit.
― ledge, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 09:41 (four months ago) link
mat osman is the drummer from gay dad (bassist from suede)
― mark s, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 09:55 (four months ago) link
I think it is broadly true that each generation since Hiroshima thinks the world will end with them, but since I haven’t read the book under review, I don’t know whether the author attributes that to paranoid narcissism on the part of religions/particular groups of people in the same way that I would.
― steely flan (suzy), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 11:28 (four months ago) link
Sensible politics is when you know the world will never end and everything will continue more or less like it is now, forever
― Bitchin Doutai (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:01 (four months ago) link
Anxiety as capitalism drains the planet of ice and water is a load of trot rubbish fellas!
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 30 April 2024 13:53 (four months ago) link
not sure what the reaction is supposed to be to this except "good, off you fuck then"https://www.theguardian.com/news/2024/may/02/i-am-moving-tycoon-bassim-haidar-non-dom-tax-status-super-rich-exodus
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:04 (four months ago) link
I hope someone organizes a mob to chuck rotting fruit and vegetables at him as he boards the plane to leave the UK (hopefully never to return).
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:10 (four months ago) link
the case they are making for him being a net benefit to the UK seems to be* he's a landlord* he was going to list his company on the FTSE
― This is Dance Anthems, have some respect (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:12 (four months ago) link
oh no sir please don't leave us and take all the money that you don't pay any tax on with you, whatever will we do without you
― memphis milano: the new trend of the 80s (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:39 (four months ago) link
good that the Guardian's "Wealth Correspondent" is asking all the tough questions to our feckless playboy billionaire overlords
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Thursday, 2 May 2024 11:45 (four months ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/07/billy-connolly-big-banana-feet-review-proto-punk-star-comic-at-his-70s-peak
At the Dublin show, a heckler shouts “IRA!” and Connolly replies acidly: “I’d love to hear you say that at Ibrox [Rangers’ stadium in Glasgow] …!” It’s amazing, from this modern perspective, to experience again how sectarianism was a violent and normalised fact of life in the 70s.
Talk about living in a London media bubble!
― I've left the box of soup near your shoes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:11 (four months ago) link
that is actually insane, even for the guardian.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 15:57 (four months ago) link
In Belfast, Connolly prudently drops any material about the Troubles, perhaps because he simply and understandably doesn’t want to take the risk.
Or it could possibly be because he didn't have any, except maybe the song about when he was in the Terries.
When he arrives at Belfast airport, Connolly chats amiably to soldiers from 15th Battalion of the Parachute Regiment, which he was once with as a Terrritorial Army reserve, and we hear his melancholy song about this on stage, Weekend Soldier‚ easily the best part of his show.
Oh look, that one.
Yeah because there's no way that would be interpreted as taking sides.
― Overtoun House windows (aldo), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:45 (four months ago) link
or his long, well documented history of sycophantic royal brownnosing
― vodkaitamin effrtvescent (calzino), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 19:48 (four months ago) link