Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

lol

The word you're looking for is 'shot'. https://t.co/Qiq9HxewgD

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) June 8, 2023

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.

absolutely insane paragraph to publish pic.twitter.com/CDVBF46jYF

— Horace Goodwill, tonicke purveyor (@eff_hey) June 11, 2023

the gulag is too good for these

Say what you like about Hitler, at least he had rules

having statistical preferences when selecting one's victims hardly amounts to "having rules"

oh this pumper is the guy who wrote a book about how the Putin regime (unlike Western democracies where governments are transparent and honest as the day is long) use lies and misinformation to melt reality.

There was another hysterical column in the Guardian about Russia/Ukraine a few days previously, real Russians have horns stuff.

It is amusing to see which comments the Guardian chooses to highlight under an article. Beneath Wurzel's latest offering the Guardian pick is

In opposition the Labour party has to face the hostility of the right wing press, the skepticism of the city, the lies of the brexiteers told over and over again to a worried electorate. If they need to be cold, cynical and paranoid in order to get the current shower out of office, that's fine by me.

the selective myopia of GTTO never gets old for some people. If they have throw every vulnerable minority under a bus and starve disabled people to death to get this evil party out of office, then that'll do for me

It is amusing to see which comments the Guardian chooses to highlight under an article.

I blame ILX poster Alba !!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/14/labour-tory-uncosted-policies-free-childcare-green-new-deal

ZW still thinks that the people in charge of Labour are good people.

"My happy place is to default back to the question: when will Labour realise that you cannot inspire voters by ceaselessly counselling caution? But you cannot consider that seriously without making a proper reckoning of how much the Conservatives have polluted the ecosystem of campaigning."

You have not made a reckoning of how Labour have polluted campaigning and public life.

"How does an opposition party meet that challenge? With secrecy? By floating decoy ideas? How do you insist on this fundamental difference between your parties, that you are sincere and they are not?"

They are not sincere.

If you think the people running Labour are good sincere people then you have not paid attention to anything they have said or done.

abject nihilism, her and everybody still cheering for them

there is some half-hearted gentle criticism of Labour in there about their fiscal caution. But no mention of austerity because it doesn't exist any more to most Graun writers, apart from Aditya C I think.

This article was amended on 5 June 2023 to remove references to James Shackell’s jaffle maker being made of cast iron.

'james shackell's jaffle maker' is an exquisite collection of sounds

Save yoga from Guardian writers.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/05/after-20-years-of-yoga-im-hanging-up-my-mat-for-good

It's probably v. horrible of me to laugh at this but the report on the aftermath of the Wimbledon school crash contains this amazing paragraph:

On Friday afternoon, a black-cab driver pulled up outside the school, stood quietly facing the scene for a few moments, said a few words to himself, then got back in his cab and drove away.

It's like something out of Maigret

https://i.imgur.com/9ygs053.jpg

Guardian writers to go ballistic.l over this.

This was always a cruel ruling based on bigotry. Much like the trans ban (though Caster Semenya isn’t trans). Forcing a cis woman to take drugs to compete, changing the rules only for her events. I hope she sues ⁦@WorldAthletics⁩ and ⁦Lord Coe. https://t.co/ziOwxAxt9D

— India Willoughby (@IndiaWilloughby) July 11, 2023

Click on this link for a laugh:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/18/heatwave-floods-save-planet-children

No sense of how we mitigate climate collapse beyond Biden's name being mentioned at the bottom of this. Oh and the author has a book out.

put a cork in Biden's piehole, that will cut down greenhouse gases! She doesn't seem to appreciate that the meteor might have delivered a blink of the eye coup de grace to the dinosaurs. But they would have noticed hundreds of thousands of years of climate change related wipeouts and volcanic ash carnage from the Deccan eruptions. It wasn't like they were having a dino party before the rock hit the bay of mexico - they were already deep into a mass extinction event. No I am not a top geo scientist, but I've namedropped Biden so this ill informed post will get published.

Amused and impressed by Calzino's knowledge of Jurassic pre-history !

been a top dino expert since the age of 6. Then went through a period of being obsessed with mass extinctions in my 40's! But to be brutally honest I'm not an expert more of an idiot - but my point was that published writer in the Graun sounds like an idiot as well.

I can't remember which book it was but the late Jurassic earth's climate was described as a "post-apocalyptic greenhouse". there weren't any "acceptance and reconstruction" options available like Gaia Vince is talking up - it was locked in and vast regions of the planet would become uninhabitable - same thing happening now. But yeah let's just embrace it.

Wait, Gaia... did the planet Earth write this?

Slightly more plausibly, is she anything to do with Dale Vince?

holy shit

sadly not it seems

We’re really passing off a factual claim that a performance of The Wall was Nazism now? RFK Jr is bad enough as is, why this need for irrational hyperbole? It’s too broad of a pattern to be just one commentator’s misguided hot take isn’t it.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/19/robert-kennedy-jr-racist-antisemitic-xenophobic-views

Earlier this summer Kennedy touted a meeting with Ice Cube, a rapper who issued bizarre antisemitic tweets, and publicly defended musician Roger Waters, who was embroiled in controversy after donning a costume intended to evoke Nazi attire at a concert in Germany.

As the son of former attorney general Robert Kennedy, and nephew of former president John F Kennedy, Kennedy has caused one of America’s most storied political dynasties with his toxic views.

Guardian sub-editors, never change

Guardian politics liveblog on by elections states:

Ian Dunt, the political commentator and author of the superb How Westminster Works … And Why It Doesn’t, has posted a good thread on Twitter arguing that what is really significant about the byelection results is what Uxbridge says about how easy it is to mobilise opposition to environmental measures.

Superb.

It's also rubbish. The candidate did sing their tune.

oh word? https://t.co/WCiPQ6S0nW pic.twitter.com/hfjNkDFpZs

— skibidi war OSINT guy (@ElonMusgraves) July 21, 2023

"we gotta be more ecofascist" -- Labour 'strategist'

I know I know, Toynbee, but nonetheless *retch*

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/21/misery-sunak-glee-davey-joy-starmer-our-panel-byelection-results

Thought this was hilariously bad from Gaby. Burning bodies can't vote.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/20/green-revolution-cost-of-living-crisis-heat-pump-car

Sure, but the Tories are betting that right up until the bodies catch fire, they can be persuaded to vote against their interests, and I'm not sure they're wrong.

The article's main point seems solid - "go green but pay for it yourself" is a canny way for them to pay lip service and shift the blame.

This is the main headline today. What a disaster that focus groups have dominated our politics.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/29/i-realise-how-serious-it-is-voters-in-england-support-action-on-climate-crisis

Telling ppl 'no you can't have your square metal box you cunt' is going to turn out really badly for all of us.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/03/sheryl-crows-20-greatest-songs-ranked

What the world has been crying out for.

lol i wonder if the writer watched the same totp rerun I did

I feel like maybe 20 songs is too much for anybody, just pick a tight karaoke 3

20 songs is just "I really enjoy this artist's work, listen to all of it"

Observer article written by a Spectator editor contains the statement that KS

"will benefit from leading a party that tends to see criticism of the leader as deeply disloyal".

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/aug/13/keir-starmer-gender-politics-labour

Isabel Hardman is a Vichy white feminist who married a sex pest; what are the rights of the women who accused her partner of this, only to see him leave the Labour Party to escape tribunal? How did they feel when that little fucker got ennobled by Boris Johnson (who has been shamelessly cruel to the women he’s been through)on top of that? And if she’s given frank feedback about this in public, how long before she cries abuse?

You're correct, Suzy. The whole story is grotesque.