Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

This columnist is dreadful.

I have never known him be anything but laid-back, and although he’s originally Dutch, in theory he should have nothing to fear from Brexit: he has settled status, confirming the right to live and work here with his English wife and family after 31 January, just as before.

He's just 'Dutch' then, not 'originally Dutch'.

But now he’s fearful. What if, the next time he needs to renew his passport for a family holiday, the computer says no?

Renew his.... Dutch passport for a family holiday? OK. Why would the Dutch government's computer say no, or have any opinion at all about his settled status in the UK?

Yeah I can't graps what she means.

The Original Dutch

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Olddutch.jpg

I have no idea who the notional reader of Hinsliff columns is.

If Twitter is anything to go by, Chiles' latest column has successfully propelled him from national laughing stock to international laughing stock. I don't know whether that's a net positive for Viner.

Aren’t they a couple?

"Chiles plays the double bass, as revealed when he dueted with violinist Nigel Kennedy playing "Fever" on The One Show"

things i just learned on wikipedia (i also play the double bass, or used to, so AC is good now)

mark s is bad now

ever do a duet with Heydrich? it would still be less hellish than the one mentioned above!

xp he was always bad

correct

this is what left unity looks like

Amelia Gentleman must be looking at that Hinsliff piece and muttering WHAT THE ACTUAL...

I'm frankly overjoyed to discover the rest of the world has cottoned onto beautiful banality of Chiles' column. There's something vaguely reassuring about its workaday 2006ish awfulness in these dark times.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/19/boris-johnson-liberal-nuanced-cautious?utm_term=Autofeed&CMP=twt_gu&utm_medium=&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1579423216

Liberal, nuanced, cautious - Boris Johnson - same paragraph. Checks calendar ... not April yet.

Not sure why I just read the Observer editorial on the Labour leadership race.

Labour must learn the correct lessons from the election (reasons for the defeat do not include blaming brexit or a hostile media, do include having socialist policies and criticising Tony Blair). The successful candidate will have to communicate these ‘hard truths’ to the naughty left-leaning part members. Also an irony-free mention of how the country needs social welfare and action on climate change more than free broadband.

The more openly right-wing press (all the other press) meanwhile are free to go 100mph on culture-wars filth, but tbh this is presumably reflective of what real people want to hear and is therefore the hard truth we need?

is there a plugin which can hide all the articles written by cunts on the guardian homepage? It would be genuinely very useful, I have enough sites to hateread already.

You may want to stay away from it on Sundays.

xp I use an adblocking app to hide all their money pop ups, sure you could create a similar filter to hide the shit. Though it might take you ages.

Though pom otm, the ObSeRvEr is a septic tank most weeks.

I mean:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/jan/19/boris-johnson-liberal-nuanced-cautious

Toby Belm innit

they are saying that there is nothing to see here. re: PM track record of being openly racist. and most right wing tory party since 30's maintaining hostile environment and destructive austerity from previous leader is "nuanced and liberal". Might have said the latter about the Graun 20 years ago. We are just a month into his premiership minus the Christmas break. So it is a bit fucking early to be making any bold claims about the complexion of this govt. They've barely had a chance to fuck anything up yet and he was on his hols when WW3 nearly started.

The Luanda Leaks stories are great

Guardisn has an article about how cats are ripping families and communities apart, thread title never been more rhetorical.

Curse ye for making me seek it out. Remove curse for having enjoyed the read. Curse the Graun for being worse than it used to be.

Sam Francis’s garden is constantly under attack. The assailant is an unneutered tom cat whom she has nicknamed Little Big Balls. “At first I thought he was quite cute,” says the 43-year-old arts producer from Weston-super-Mare. “Then the bullying started.” Little Big Balls is a remorseless playground thug. “He would run across the garden and just go for my cat, Moustachio. If Moustachio was outside, Little Big Balls would attack him.” Moustachio became too terrified to go outside.

We had our kittens’ brother around last night and even though he was less than a third their size, he bullied them both til he left. I empathised with that woman only! But there aren’t bad cats, only bad owners (and co-owners).

Moustachio

Moustachio is a beautiful boy, the owner is right to protect him

Reminded of one of the Marmalade books where the racehorse was called Irish Bob and was furious about the ridiculous name the humans had given him.

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IN THESE DECADE-DEFINING TIMES

most important year ever

Lol imagine the cheek of that when they were constantly running Labour scare stories just marginally more respectable than the tabloids?

who the fuck actually pays that subscription is buzzfeed registered as a charitable organisation

Even bearing in mind this is a Fiona Millar opinion piece, this is breathtakingly bad and shouldn't have been published at all, let alone given the prime spot on the website.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2020/feb/04/mp-new-labour-education-lucky-blair-brown

Love to see lazy hack Catherine Bennett get two pieces of shit published today: one, a legitimate concerns piece about trans people (of course!) and the second a completely embarrassing sketch piece that even Tom Prick would be ashamed of. Fuck these people, my only comfort is that the fascists won’t spare them either.

Imagine this being your hill to die on? The sheer, unvarnished cuntery of it!

”human rights do not include the right not to be offended or to have your spiritual, or other non-negotiable private convictions, affirmed by fellow citizens."

hnnggghhhh

The Tories are flirting with eugenicists and Labour is insisting biological sex is just a social construct. Britain having a totally normal one

— Hadley Freeman (@HadleyFreeman) February 17, 2020

deport her!

One has led to the death and immiseration of countless millions over the centuries, the other has caused the vein in Graham Linehan's temple to throb unattractively. Fair comment then.

well yeah on one side of parliament is an opposition party being pro trans rights and on the other side is the beginning of the T4 aktion.

you need some warped thinking to to draw a comparison here

I can see why someone who’s a massive terf and chief both-sideser would think that comparison stands up

i've got vague memories of being a regular reader of lost in showbiz over a decade ago - but i don't like to talk about it!

When linehan posted his insane transphobic bilge in the mail he was like “well the guardian wouldn’t publish it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯” & I was like, they wouldn’t?

Jewdas are otm about Transphobia/Eugenics being "two branches of the same rotten tree".

just throwing it out there but i wonder if the feminists who've adopted "biological sex" as their euphemism du jour have really thought through the implications they're inviting

Yeah this is a frequent criticism - love too be feminist by reducing myself to my biological parts and functions. Also love too be feminist by happily siding with the far right and conservative Christians who don’t think women should have rights (that’s where the money is coming from).

xp they absolutely have not, e.g.

This is what #TERFlogic does to your love life. pic.twitter.com/cmg14QPSBi

— transadvocate (@transadvocate) February 15, 2020