how about publishing known sex pests like michael white and nick cohen (tip of the iceberg) while posturing as some kind of feminist publication (in order to attack muslims, black women, sex workers, trans people...) - maybe we'll get a mea culpa for that in 50 years
― Left, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:40 (two years ago) link
Don’t forget Hadley Freeman defending Woody Allen on at least two occasions
i read the TERF’s woody allen article so you don’t have to: it’s execrable stuff pic.twitter.com/B1ka1ZJtJE— wanton dialectic-haver (@sharcoal) May 29, 2020
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:50 (two years ago) link
forgot about that there's so much awful to keep track of. burn it all down
― Left, Saturday, 8 May 2021 17:58 (two years ago) link
Observer:
It is difficult for a leader of the opposition to be heard so soon after the election of a new prime minister to whom voters delivered a resounding majority and who is broadly considered to be performing well. The expectation that Labour could transform its fortunes just 18 months after its historic 2019 defeat, its worst showing in almost 100 years, was always unrealistic.
Note: "broadly considered to be performing well".
― the pinefox, Sunday, 9 May 2021 07:06 (two years ago) link
they;re v quiet on the old observer today, but that whole editorial is an amazing exercise in putting your fingers in your ears
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 May 2021 07:11 (two years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/09/the-observer-view-on-labour-performance-in-the-elections-keir-starmer
There was no position on Brexit that would have avoided losing the party votes.
The Guardian / Observer / John Harris position of attacking JC for Labour failure, till someone else is Labour leader, then blaming long-term trends beyond the leader's control.
Meanwhile:
Internally, in the name of party unity, he has shied away from addressing hard truths with his membership about the need to speak from beyond the activist comfort zone.
These people have not noticed that he has deliberately atttacked and alienated most of his activists, and as a result of his actions there is no-one left to knock on doors, or even send the party a fiver a month.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 9 May 2021 07:13 (two years ago) link
they have noticed, they just want him to do more!
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 May 2021 07:18 (two years ago) link
What activists?
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 9 May 2021 08:42 (two years ago) link
Rawnsley has been well paid to know about these things for over 30 years
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/may/09/keir-srarmer-act-urgently-rescue-labour-from-plight
Thus, unlike most of us, does not notice that KS's Labour, rather than 'slowly bouncing back', has performed worse than JC's, nor that socialists have locally outperformed KS's Labour.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 9 May 2021 15:17 (two years ago) link
i think if you consider that rawnsley etc are not really being paid to do analysis but to craft a narrative you can read these columnists with different expectations
― plax (ico), Sunday, 9 May 2021 16:08 (two years ago) link
lol at them getting his name wrong in url
― koogs, Sunday, 9 May 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
They just got it wrong in the wrong way!
― the pinefox, Monday, 10 May 2021 08:30 (two years ago) link
This adaptation was sadly so bad that I had to turn off after 20 minutes.
Lucy Mangan gives it 5/5.
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/may/09/the-pursuit-of-love-review-absolutely-glorious
― the pinefox, Monday, 10 May 2021 08:35 (two years ago) link
"comments (666)"
― calzino, Monday, 10 May 2021 08:45 (two years ago) link
lol i read the first para of Lucy Mangan's review and thought 'no, this will be bad'. glad the pinefox has gone there so others don't need to.
― Fizzles, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 07:17 (two years ago) link
Or maybe, just maybe, Lucy Mangan is right and the pinefox is wrong? Heresy on this thread, I realize.
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 07:20 (two years ago) link
If we're gonna be spoilsports I'll go straight to the part where art is subjective and thus neither the pinefox nor Lucy Mangan can be "right".
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:33 (two years ago) link
Lucy Mangan has never been right about anything in her life
― Scamp Granada (gyac), Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:34 (two years ago) link
In my experience there are very few exceptions where Graun critics give stuff 5 stars and it is any fucking cop at all. For me maybe some of the Classical music reviews have been spot on occasionally. See also Peter Badshaw, a film critic who is only slightly better than Commode and occasionally gets the gush over Nolan and other such waste.
― calzino, Wednesday, 12 May 2021 09:49 (two years ago) link
This opening in today's @MarinaHyde piece about David Cameron has one of the best end-of-paragraph pay-offs I can remember reading. I've not even read the rest of the article yet, I just wanted to share the joy. pic.twitter.com/yZeTqYlVs2— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) May 14, 2021
― the pinefox, Friday, 14 May 2021 18:47 (two years ago) link
Cmon man, that’s a pretty good joke from 10 years ago
― Pinefox reviews Reviews (wins), Friday, 14 May 2021 18:55 (two years ago) link
a lame autocorrect joke is a great pay-off? it feels more hitting the bottom of the humour overdraft.
― calzino, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
so desperate to get in there first, he posted it before even finishing it off... reading the Hyde column that is.
― calzino, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:05 (two years ago) link
is david cameron a standup guy? he's certainly a complete comedian
give me her job
― mark s, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:38 (two years ago) link
sorry Mark but that was very sharp but lacking the thermonuclear brilliance you feel when you've followed Hyde since 2009 and the memory of her comedically using rhymezone to such devastating effect for years has a cumulative hilarity to it.
― calzino, Friday, 14 May 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link
you also have to do the thing where you say 'when i was at school we used to say...' (even better if you can make it like oh idk something famous from a tv show nobody watches anymore like friends) or some other fatuous setup at the ouset so that you can use an irrelevant pun/metaphor throughout the article. Something about how Cameron, having been shown up, is all skirt and no knickers (as we used to say at school). Commando Cameron if you will. (blah blah blah some stuff about how he hit up all the other little men in his platoon texting them for favours "I'll be there for you, cos your there for me too" - Not this time dave)
― plax (ico), Friday, 14 May 2021 23:01 (two years ago) link
That's a good analysis.
Mark S joke quite good too.
― the pinefox, Saturday, 15 May 2021 10:02 (two years ago) link
"The government seems to be following the lead of the late, lamented Dr Frasier Crane (don't write in about Kelsey Grammer, kids), and wishing the population of Britain 'Good Mental Health'. I suppose after everything else they've tried over the last year, it's worth a go."
― the pinefox, Saturday, 15 May 2021 10:04 (two years ago) link
amazing number of 'don't think they'd take too kindly to you disparaging Shrek in the RED WALL' type responses to this
Shrek at 20: an unfunny and overrated low for blockbuster animation https://t.co/VgqMqEXbu8— The Guardian (@guardian) May 18, 2021
― soref, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 09:32 (two years ago) link
This is what happens when a whole section of your newspaper is sponsored by Bill Gates. pic.twitter.com/lt1pAPYjm0— Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) May 25, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 10:58 (two years ago) link
I was going to say that one's old and I'm sure we've covered it before, but it's only from the end of last year so not that old.
― emil.y, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 13:45 (two years ago) link
Only saw it today but yes now come to think of it this topic has been covered.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 13:47 (two years ago) link
I could have sworn there was another pro child labour advert in the Graun a couple of years back (definitely before 2020) as well, or maybe they just keep running the same one.
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 13:58 (two years ago) link
Chiles labour
― nashwan, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:02 (two years ago) link
he's bad again now, lock that thread!
― calzino, Wednesday, 26 May 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
nobody can touch chiles right now. he's been in a league of his own for several years, but he keeps pushing the ceiling upwards. a generational talent pic.twitter.com/KJDVL1Wp3E— Stan Cross (@tristandross) May 26, 2021
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 27 May 2021 14:13 (two years ago) link
I admit I love to hate read Mariella Frostrup's advice column, but this week's problem is a classic in unthinking privilege.
In summary:
The problem
I have reached the point where it all feels hopeless and I want to explore ways of feeling happier single, to quell this desire to find a mate. My daughter is the most wonderful thing to have happened to me but, growing up, it was a relationship I thought about and desired more than motherhood. I’d like to want that less, to spend less time thinking about it, to be happier with my lot and accept that I may live out my days single.Is it possible to achieve something like this? To dial down my desire to find a partner and find a better life as a result?
Is it possible to achieve something like this? To dial down my desire to find a partner and find a better life as a result?
The response:
In my 39th year, having failed to find a father for my hoped-for children, I decided to take advantage of what I did have, which was independence and solvency. For 12 months I forgot entirely about dating and instead sought stimulation elsewhere, a sabbatical in Brazil, an acting stint in The Vagina Monologues and a trek in Nepal. It was in those foothills that I met the man with whom I now have two kids. I am grateful to this day for my decision to stop seeking more and enjoy what I had. By default, it brought me everything I had secretly hoped for. Thanks for reminding me! And I hope that you find similar satisfaction.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 30 May 2021 08:45 (two years ago) link
lol is that trolling? omg
― plax (ico), Sunday, 30 May 2021 12:42 (two years ago) link
Really playing all the hits there!
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 May 2021 13:34 (two years ago) link
Dear peasant, Have you considered being #blessed? Don’t answer that I don’t give a fuck. Kisses, Marionella
― Pfizer the pharma chip (wins), Sunday, 30 May 2021 13:44 (two years ago) link
"Thanks for reminding me!"
no need, the pleasure is all mine
― calzino, Sunday, 30 May 2021 13:49 (two years ago) link
Wow! It's like Marge's dream come true- for me! Isn't that great, Marge? For me.
― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 30 May 2021 13:52 (two years ago) link
that goes against all of Daniel Johnston's advice on finding true love. i don't know who to believe.
― koogs, Monday, 31 May 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
Just went for a swim in a river. What happens now? Do the Guardian contact me directly to write an article?— Olly Barratt (@ollybarratt) May 31, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:38 (two years ago) link
doesn't he require a reference to a spare flat in London and a pic looking smug as fuck in a huge designer kitchen as well?
― calzino, Tuesday, 1 June 2021 10:43 (two years ago) link
Guardian shilling for office landlords *again* today pic.twitter.com/ZAJ3ZEdWRi— Horse (@bojack90s) June 3, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 4 June 2021 09:21 (two years ago) link
I LITERALLY quit my job at The Guardian because of rampant transphobia. I loved that job, the digital team were absolutely amazing but I had to leave 😭 https://t.co/uzaLbEA4UH— Jessica (@bananapixelsuk) June 6, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:17 (two years ago) link
It's Mariella Frostrup's last column for The Observer this week.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:30 (two years ago) link
Another trek in the foothills of Nepal coming up?
― Are Animated Dads Getting Hotter? (Tom D.), Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:32 (two years ago) link
Didn’t see a reference to last column in the Observer - but I guess she’s busy with her newish Times radio job.
― Luna Schlosser, Sunday, 6 June 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link