Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Of Sunak’s announcements on Wednesday, it was the cut to the foreign aid budget which Iqbal thought would go down best locally. “I’ve lived in this country for about 30 years and as somebody coloured, you are still classed as a foreigner,” he mused, suggesting he had never quite been accepted locally, despite also running a curry house around the corner for years. “It might be good for the average British folk if the government is giving more to people here than abroad.”

-_-

People are misinformed and ignorant about politics? There are no lessons for a journalist to learn here!

"curry house" is annoyingly patronising from a Guardian journalist. call it a restaurant. like "builders' tea"

They don't actually have restaurants north of Stratford-on-Avon though, don't be silly.

ogmor come back to ilx we are talking about the north!

Pidd is the very worst - even her name sounds like it should be onomatopoeia for a particularly desultory and condescending journalistic squib.

is this not the lady who used her small business owning landlord pal as a labour-turned-tory source

we just have gravel pits where we feight to the death for mouldy cobs of bread up here

Would really need a worst Guardian writer poll. Too many to choose from.

is this not the lady who used her small business owning landlord pal as a labour-turned-tory source

― reggae kraftwerk (||||||||), Thursday, 26 November 2020 10:14 (nine minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

Twentymans. yeah. She obviously noticed all the criticism and decided the best thing to do was double down on her approach.

Am I wrong in thinking the implied message behind all these pieces is "Keith, pssst, this is what you need to do?"

turning a big dial taht says "Racism" on it and constantly looking back at the audience for approval like a contestant on the price is right

— wint (@dril) March 15, 2017

dril has her number!

there's always a dril tweet

There’s always that dril tweet tbh

"my mario tip: Anything is possible in the world of Mario." - my mario tip

— wint (@dril) August 4, 2014

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

Who is the dril person? I have never known.

twice.

the old 2 Goomba salute

Can't believe dril book hasn't got an ILB thread

I was given the dril book last Christmas as a novelty present, would love to see it

I have seen the person's tweets before, but don't know who they are or where they are coming from, literally or figuratively, really.

That's a relatively straightforward dril tweet (the 'Racism' one). Most of them make me feel old and confused. Which may well be the point.

Well here's the news daddio, he's just been denounced as passé and a total square on the twitter thread!

Where's my pitchfork!

There’s always that dril tweet tbh

― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Thursday, November 26, 2020 11:31 AM (one hour ago) bookmarkflaglink

it is the gift that keeps on giving if you're a Graun hack or a politician

I have googled 'dril' before but tbh the explanations left me none the wiser

dril hasn’t been the same since he sold out

Guardian Christmas quiz of 'dril tweet or Adrian Chiles standfirst?' pls.

lmao

Moore also on substack

Don’t snark – this ‘Brexit festival’ may turn out to be just the tonic we need
Gaby Hinsliff

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/nov/27/brexit-festival-eu-national

if it works, there’s a useful lesson here for the left about telling a modern, upbeat, inclusive national story – something any aspirant prime minister must learn to do – without being either painfully jingoistic or embarrassingly naff.

Sounds like Gaby Hinsliff thinks she is on 'the left'.

So what is this 'modern, upbeat, inclusive national story' she's talking about?

It's odd that Hinsliff has this sinecure.

Freedland has been there for over 20 years - and though a dreadful, mendacious person, he has a kind of talent for glib narration. Freeman is a bad fashion columnist who enjoyed mission creep. Williams is another long-standing staffer who sort of earned her status. Hyde is bad in the ways everyone says, but has talent for it, and a big following. Jenkins is a substantial, experienced journalist. So is Toynbee, in another way. Harris was quite significant in the music press and worked his way in to political writing. You can see a certain logic with most of them.

But Hinsliff writes this stuff for a major outlet every week, despite being a nobody. Has anyone ever said 'I'll buy, or even click on, the Guardian for the Gaby Hinsliff article?'; 'I can't wait to hear what Gaby Hinsliff has to say today'; or 'Gaby Hinsliff should appear on TV discussion programmes more?'. Does anyone know or care anything about her beside the terrible opinion articles she cranks out?

She seems an anomaly in being awful, like others, but also in such a nondescript, nobody, beige way.

Will this inclusive national story include the nation of the UK that voted 62/38 to stay in the EU?

it's amazing how passionate and principled these m/c guardian-wanker Remainer ultras are, just inspirational.

This might not really be the right thread but I've enjoyed (no, not quite the right word) reading John Crace. He often sounds sad and broken and as if he's really struggling with the world of Covid.

It is the right thread. But do you mean you enjoy this because you like him, or don't like him?

I think ... he just sounds human.

My guardian is worse than it used to be - the guide is missing pages 19-42 but has two copies of all the other pages, so I've no idea what's on TV until Tuesday.

You are quite old fashioned aren't you Koogs? (not meant in a zingy way ftr)

Why, I oughta...

It's probably the last reason I buy a paper. Used to get it Thursday for the tech section, but they stopped that. Friday for the music section, but they stopped that.

The radio times would be cheaper but I like the exhibitions list too, although not so useful these days.

Zoe Williams, expert parent

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2020/nov/29/i-raised-my-kids-on-pixar-and-it-has-ruined-classic-cinema-for-them

I know this column probably isn't the worst of her crimes, just, they pay her how much for this utterly pointless shit while getting rid of loads of half-decent writers and closing every interesting section?

lol i always think the observer is just lots of columns like this and that people like to read them on a sunday and still feel like they're reading the grownup newspaper

"listen to this...!"

I mean if you could paid for such lazy shitposting any of us would take the money, but some really stupid and horrible movie opinions in there as well.

i actually started reading it but my blood pressure was getting dangerous by the end of the first paragraph so i bailed.