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pip getting the world of lather column is one of the best things that has happened to the guardian lately <3

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/oct/27/world-of-lather-soap-opera-roundup
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/dec/01/eastenders-syed-and-christian-leave

like, i don't even watch soaps but i'm literally re-reading them and reading the best bits out loud to my bf

what is jodelka's role/job/life in general...it's baffled me for the last few years

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2012/dec/02/should-i-eat-less-fruit

There is one good reason for not eating grapefruits – they taste sour.

I'm making a grapefruit face at that article

eating a quarter of the fruit a day increased the risk by 30%.... but they are unlikely to increase your risk

surely that shit about grapefruit is ancient news

i am absolutely furious right now.

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Could challenge The Guardian to read that comment in full, tbh. Whoever puts out the embassy's press releases needs an editor.

I don't think even the Grauniad's copy editors would let that through unchanged.

lol xp

The best bit is when they accuse Alan Rusbridger of engineering the Crimean War. Or something. Alas no response from The Guardian. They should have done one in the style of a Russian Embassy press release for the lols.

I kind of admire the London embassy's continued defiance of both diplomatic norms and common sense. Apparently a pensioner emailed them to complain about Pussy Riot being jailed so they sent him back lots of hardcore nsfw jpegs of one of the members having sex in a museum as part of a protest action a few years ago. I suspect you don't get that from the Chinese.

"We challenge The Guardian to publish this comment in full to prove that it is, after all, about reasoned debate and not the search for the weapons of mass distraction, British politics may be in need of."

Sweet pun, Russian embassy guy.

what is the worst thing you can say about an author on the internet without it being perceived as inciting violence & so illegal

get back to me, i need to comment on this guy's piece

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/21/1279720834731/PatrickKingsley.jpg

Low point of my guardian reading year was flicking through the G2 a few weeks back and my eyes alighting on Hadley Freeman using the word 'obvs' in her SHIT FUCKING FASHION ADVICE COLUMN.

Can we all agree that the G2 is the thing that annoys most about the Guardian?

so glad someone else hates that column. she hasn't got a fucking clue.

I quite like her other pieces but she just doesn't really seem that interested in fashion.

this is the thing, she pretty much is annoyed by almost every item of clothing that anyone ever asks her about. irritated both by trends and by... jeans.

Can we all agree that the G2 is the thing that annoys most about the Guardian?

I thought this was a universally recognised truth, Fridays excepted.

i never buy the physical paper so it's sort of hard to tell

Pretty sure that 90% of the matey "I know right?", Guardian We-type lifestyle articles that are linked here are from G2. That sort of writing is terrible in all broadsheets though, I hate the assumption that you all de facto agree with the writer's opinions and share their lifestyle at the same time.

isn't that the agenda of all lifestyle/culture/commentary-based journalism in general though?

Can we all agree that the G2 is the thing that annoys most about the Guardian?

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well there's that and steve bell

and martin robbins

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steve bell is so bad

there are bits of G2 I actually quite like. It's a fairly predictable read, but y'know. Steve Bell can go suck a fuck though.

In a Paris attic apartment decorated like a 19th-century dandy's den, a rottweiler snores on a velvet couch and dozens of candles give out a half-light. Pete Doherty kicks an apple core round the living room rug and chats in broken French to a friend on his cracked iPhone. Balzac novels are stacked high on the window ledge.

This is Paris Pete, the rocker who now sings solo as Peter Doherty, writes poetry, paints and has made his debut as a French arthouse-cinema actor.

that was a pretty good piece i thought, not the writer's fault the subject is such a tool

Doherty's Old Albion Englishness – the William Blake allusions, the pork-pie hat, the "tickety-boo" expressions – that seemed a bit fantastical at home are lapped up in France. He plays up to the Englishman-in-Paris tag. "I go into the newsagent and say: 'It looks like rain today.' And they're saying: 'You can't talk about the weather, this is the country of revolution!'"

lol "arthouse-cinema actor"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/04/russian-embassy-responds-to-guardian

god there really is no sympathetic side in the Russia vs HM Gov vs The Graun throwdown is there?

No. The Guardian's Russia coverage is absolutely abysmal so it's understandable the embassy is narked but if they stopped publishing outlandish rumours and slanted thinkpieces and just reported what the Russian government was actually up to it'd make Putin look even worse.

Think I would take the Graun over Russia in this one tbh, annoying as the former often is.

that was a pretty good piece i thought, not the writer's fault the subject is such a tool

seconded

i haven't read the piece but i dunno why you'd want to write about Paris Pete in December 2012

406 comments and 789 Facebook shares, i guess. He's still a draw.

truly he is our generation's Osbert Sitwell

Oh Christ this intro

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/dec/05/david-mamet-anarchist-broadway

*facepalm*

That's Mark Lawson-level.

musta took brass balls to write that

I was just going to mention Mark Lawson. His tortuous Front Row intros often beggar belief ... but I kind of admire them.