Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/08/taking-the-knee-politicians-sport-racism-football

"We don’t expect Martin to be able to identify Nicolae Stanciu and Ionuţ Nedelcearu on sight"

...

'This article was amended on 9 June 2021. An earlier version misidentified the Romanian players who chose not to take the knee against England as “Florin Răducioiu and Ianis Hagi”.'

(tbh, i only recognised 4 names from the england squad. and one from croatia.)

Croatia?

Get yr racist Eastern Europeans right, buddy.

*straight, bah.

'This article was amended on 9 June 2021. An earlier version misidentified the Romanian players who chose not to take the knee against England as “Florin Răducioiu and Ianis Hagi”.'

Well, Hagi does play for Rangers so no crime in thinking he might be a bigot.

Florin Răducioiu also retired twenty years ago, unless there is a Florin Răducioiu Jr.

You can safely assume that all of them are. Romania historically has had little to no contact with sub-Saharan populations so it absolutely does not give a shit about BLM, it's just a Western trend to them (barring a, well, more Westernized exception or two).

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There were several articles in the Romanian sports press about how the majority of players who take the knee do so merely because they don't want to have to deal with the international backlash.

Plus this guy plays for Rangers.

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.

― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 9 June 2021 bookmarkflaglink

My locked alt account I'll never make will quote RT hate at daddy's like him all day long.

> (tbh, i only recognised 4 names from the england squad. and one from croatia.)

oh, this was me going through the squads in the guardian's euro 2020 pull-out on saturday, recognised modric from his picture.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jun/12/catholic-prime-minister-no-10-watershed-moment-boris-johnson

Chasing those crucial credulous conservative catholic clicks.

what an amazing victory for catholic representation, maybe his good buddy Orban can convert next!

The serial adultery, the abortions and the unknown numbers of illegitimate children - it's enough to make any good Catholic glow with pride.

if only the Catholic church were as exclusionary as the private clubs this degenerate cunt frequents.

The headline on this seems such a weird interpretation of events:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/jun/12/delay-ending-lockdown-majority-of-public-back-boris-johnson

Even allowing for my wine consumption, I can't see anything in the story that confirms anyone is "backing Johnson" or even that Johnson is explicitly saying he will delay ending lock down. I mean, he chats shit about a road map.

Says the Guardian:

In his clearest indication yet of a delay, Johnson said the spread of the new variant was a “serious, serious concern”. He insisted no final decisions had been made.

One of the leading stories on the Guardian's online front page today:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jun/18/together-because-it-feels-good-french-man-who-goes-everywhere-with-a-pigeon

Guardian clearly improving

This must have taken all of 10 minutes for JJ to knock up, wonder how much he got paid for it?

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2021/jun/18/from-tubular-bells-to-horses-10-of-the-best-pieces-of-album-artwork

haha, one of them isn't even an album either

I could put a band name over the top right hand corner of a Bruegel print quicker!

Lou Reed Live? I don't think so.

Christ. 10 LP covers and one isn't an LP.

"You had one job".

The article contains little text, yet still gets basic facts wrong.

And:

The cover of Animals, with its pig floating over Battersea power station against a lurid sky, defined how I imagined London.

Welcome to Philippa Perry, who has taken over from Mariella Frostrup. I think Phiippa Perry is great. I actually preferred her graphic book 'Couch Fiction' to the couple of books of hers that I've read.

It is an interesting development. She makes a solid start in her first problem - my sex life has dropped off

There's a change of approach. Philippa's style is very much about coping and adjusting realistically to life, whereas Mariella was more of a cheerleader to get out there and live it up. Philippa's 'realism' approach can come across as slightly depressing at time, such as:

I’m afraid our bodies do reach a peak condition in youth and, as you age, you are allowed to mourn the loss of taut flesh, just as you are allowed to mourn the fact that sex is no longer a daily occurrence. But this will not dent your capacity to love and appreciate each other as much as you ever did. And, occasionally, such a body, with its bulges and aches, will also be the vehicle with which you enjoy great sex – just not as often.

Looking forward to read more over coming weeks though.

Yes. I hated MF’s answers, they used to make me silently shout at the screen. And I think PP is generally very thoughtful and grounded in reality when she responds.

Hey guess who won the Orwell prize for Journalism?

https://www.orwellfoundation.com/the-orwell-prizes/

I was thinking there were so many terrible Guardian writers to choose from but at least it won't be John Harris...

previous winners include

Suzanne Moore
Carole Cadwalladr
Fintan O'Toole
Peter Hitchens
Matthew Parris
David Aaronovitch
Polly Toynbee

from which I surmise that the criteria for the award is you need to be an overexposed fool who is wrong about nearly everything and a total dick, which is quite in the spirit of Orwell tbf.

jesus christ that list tells you everything

It really seems to favour opinionated columnists rather than the craft of journalism.

i only just realised this is a serious award, i'd always assumed it was some darwin awards type thing that you didn't want to get, handed out for alleged "doublethink" or what have you

The Orwell Prize.

If Hancock hangs on, we know England has turned into Animal Farm where all animals are expected to follow the Covid rules but some animals can do what the hell they like

— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) June 26, 2021

whoever it was who decided to make everyone read these books at school has a lot to answer for

short and easy to draw out an essay's worth of trite allegory, same reason An Inspector Calls is still going strong

it's worse than harry potter references, at least people don't get to pretend they're being intellectual with those

https://i.imgur.com/Ww4mPiK.png

lmfbo what, is this a terf

um how dare you guess that for no reason whatsoever, she has merely been ~just asking questions~ in the graun for at least six years

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/jun/11/caitlyn-jenner-transgender-feminism-woman

You don’t have to link it

I’ll just take your word for it

Anyway I’m glad whoever this is is suffering social consequences from her former friends

I’m just an alien observer here but isn’t this the same Grauniad that harped on Corbyn’s alleged antisemitism for years? Is “just asking questions” now their editorial policy?