Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

not just the press of course, the government is completely on board too

This is two years old but I just came across it.

https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/society-and-culture/with-cancel-culture-political-correctness-has-indeed-gone-mad

"With “cancel culture” political correctness has indeed gone mad".

Former music journalists are bad vibes man.

— The Trashies (@TheTrashiesUK) June 6, 2021

I listened to the
You're Wrong About episode on Political Correctness yesterday which was pretty interesting. Hadn't quite taken in that the term's original usage was either a derogatory external descriptive or an ironic one used by people who were aware of the irony. But that goes into where it came from and how the idea was mainly abused. Had just viewed it as something that never worked because it ignored the dynamic nature of exchanges and people being aware of ironies so a kneejerk set of rules was absolutely wrong but it addressed an existing problem. Just seems to have been a label pinned on people who were quite happy with the abuse

'fuck Stonewall' is a no when the right-wing press are trying to beat them up rn.

Otm. Am watching developments with dismay. Especially that anyone is listening to Matthew Parris, and the realisation that this waste of space still has some influence in the Tory party.

Finding columnists very annoying at the moment and sure there is worse to come (I can guess that both Suzanne Moore and Julie Burchill will be preparing columns, both saying “see - I told you I was right!”

Parris is critical of the current PM, with no effect - so I suppose his influence is actually limited.

Burchill has created another scandal-storm with bad comments about the latest royal baby.

ok i withdraw the stonewall comment for the time being but i will never forgive the likes of PT for helping enable this

pretty unhappy about every part of this btw

PT = Peter Tatchell?

yes

there are reasons i haven't paid attention to the org for years, it seems to have changed for the better & i understand that the current attack is about more than just the org

i am uncomfortable having to certain things for strategic reasons but it's where we are at now

I wish I hadn't posted any of this

https://i.imgur.com/RjtRpMt.png

to cleanse the timeline

... any excuse...

https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/vivo/live/images/2016/6/7/cafa2d6d-d7e4-416d-b824-2bcbcb793bce.jpg

I can't remember if you can blame these cringe wankers for the rise of face-paint, jester hats and Roger Nouveau type wankers like Kieth re-inventing themselves as lifelong Gooners. But fuck it - I will.

I was living in London in '96 during this.. this special cultural moment of national unity when a load of pissed up/coked up thugs (who thought England were entitled to win all games/all competitions) trashed all the shops around Trafalgar Square and even when I'd got back home to Plumstead they were throwing pint glasses about and bricking cars and house windows!

that’s beautiful man

ok i withdraw the stonewall comment for the time being but i will never forgive the likes of PT for helping enable this

oh yeah tatchell is fucking terrible for all sorts of reasons & the guardian quoting someone as controversial as him as their 'pro-trans' voice in that article is no doubt a deliberate move

Calzino, I was living in Woolwich and watching Euro 96 -- we were only a couple of miles apart!

I moved from Conway road, Plumstead to Woolwich to .. I can't remember the road name but it was across the road from some blocks of flats and around the corner from Blockbusters and Safeways. We may have even walked past each other. I wasn't watching Euro '96, as a plastic paddy republican 4 life. I'd just done an evening shift at Camden rd Sainsburies that night and saw all the broken glass and mayhem from a bus.

Blockbusters in Woolwich was right on General Gordon Square, the main square with the old Woolwich building and next to Woolwich Arsenal station - wasn't it?

yep, but when I do streetview it all looks different now and I think where I lived was definitely Anglesea Rd. I recognise the blocks of flats that were across the road but the Victorian terrace row I lived in has been demolished and some dreary looking redbrick houses must have put up late 90's/early 00's.

emma beddington

The correction to this headline is even less accurate than the original. pic.twitter.com/terKnuDpvE

— slakieth (@akehhsbnak) June 9, 2021

uncritical support for Kieth is "mainstream" now?

his current approval rating seems to suggest otherwise.

Appalling headlines.

it reminds me of how negative coverage of Bernie in the US would often cite "Mainstream Democrats" rather than refer to them as the right-wing of the party.

I solemny declare: If anyone claims Ulysses is one of his favorite novels I will smile at him, pretend to go for another beer, turn away and never talk to him again (and yes: I read it).

— Sebastian Halm (@SebastianHalm) June 9, 2021

Father, husband, journalist

what is this person's deal exactly, apart from being a smug prick?

'solemny' feels like an accidentally cool coinage

awash in solemny, he declared his piece

A solemnycism.

1 weird trick to get this cunt to leave you alone

If anyone claims Ulysses is one of his favorite novels I will smile at him, pretend to go for another beer, turn away and never talk to him again

Fucking fuck right off.

He can't spell favourite either.

Utterly vile.

I feel a bit bad because this guy only has around as many followers as me, he doesn't seem to be a huge public figure, but if there's a way to wind me up in a single tweet... oof.

I love that he has put up this tweet, got one approving comment, then continued with his day, unaware that an entire message board is talking about how much they hate him.

his favourite film

Hot Fuzz is my favorite movie. And horror is my favorite genre. And Anya Taylor-Joy the most exciting young actress working today. You can count me in for @lastnightinsoho, @edgarwright - this seems ridiculously promising!

— Sebastian Halm (@SebastianHalm) May 27, 2021

wow this guy has really unconventional taste for a this guy

he's similar to a lot of Left Twitter probably. massively ignorant about world cinema and has wretched taste in movies!

lol you're all just irate at a German dad now, surely the Guardian has enough hateful shite on its roster that we don't need to get angry at its reply guys?

if there is a steady flow of hatred on vocals and contempt is on the bongos, the it's a successful ilx thread!

ILX is the drubber of German Dad

lock thread

request unrelated to recent posts, just a helpful general suggestion

ulysses is so good

a classic i would say

queen Victoria? Old hag with the yellow teeth. Vieille ogresse
with the dents jaunes. Maud Gonne, beautiful woman, La Patrie, M.
Millevoye, Felix Faure, know how he died? Licentious men.

— Ulysses Reader (@UlyssesReader) June 7, 2021

I've been taking it in piecemeal from the best account on twitter