Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

hah hah trying in vain to distance Kieth from the stench of defeat

It's Orwellian, somebody should write a book

The Road to Cope Pier

"it fails to understand principles and benefits of universal provision"

the only universalism they really approve of is universal poverty so they can write insincere hand-wringing bollocks about it to make themselves look progressive

Isn't ms Graham the leader most likely to withdraw Unite funding from Labour?

KS likes trashing his own party's finances.

she has said there must be a review into Labour funding, but I don't know how that will end. Also she said ‘Keir Starmer is failing working people’ so he is trying to put a brave face on his man being the wooden spoon, despite apparently having the biggest campaign war-chest from some undisclosed donors.

and Coyne had Jess Phillips campaigning for him!

with her unerring instinct for understanding the political opinions of the man on the Clapham omnibus

speaking strewth! + cor blimey! to power

Luke Akehurst was congratulating the dark-money funded, Murdoch backed candidate for his courage in "in taking on the machine".

Whatever the rights and (many) wrongs of Ofcom’s decision, this BBC report is a disgrace. Misgendering trans people, describing the tiny LGB Alliance as a “rival” to Stonewall, falsely describing it as campaigning “for” gay people (it does no such thing). https://t.co/70ZnCobShR

— Matt Wells (@MatthewWells) August 25, 2021

is the bbc worse than it used to be, article 3456785768239

it seems the writer John McAnus has a strong bias against Stonewall and is a dedicated transphobe. Quite in the mainstream of Beeb and Graun reporters then.

Either Tom Cruise has had a different car stolen in Birmingham every day for the last three days or it's a slow news week.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E-GGcuJX0AM78Ow?format=jpg&name=900x900

genuinely sick-making

although I did lol at Rosen's "Long Govid" quip

Yes, you'd have to be a useless fool to write this.

Is this a long-running series from ZW on 'I used to think X ... then I realised Y' ?

google searching "zoe williams I used to.." does bear this out

well the top 2 are I used to tut at people who wear glasses and I used to believe hay fever didn't exist.

The four words any young journalist dreads seeing anywhere near their article. pic.twitter.com/JUv4QsK3O7

— Europe's Leading Soccer Futurologist (@TreborRhurbarb) September 2, 2021

Utterly bizarre feature

Multi-author glossy weekend feature vs tucked in the back pages somewhere. pic.twitter.com/XpeBeeTWU9

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) September 5, 2021

this is the highlighted "culture" article today, was thinking of submitting it for the worst music writing thread

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/sep/05/jailhouse-rock-how-historys-crimes-live-on-in-music

"the punk bank with whom he recorded the song No One Is Innocent"

typo otm

lol duncan campbell is a fairly legendary and deservedly respected crime reporter, fairly evidently a long way out to sea when tasked with mapping pop

(the book he's talking abt looks p interesting tho, i already had my eye on it)

you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum though

tbh no i would not

(a) he's 77 and (b) he's married to julie christie :0

= he has better things to think abt

and he's a billy bragg fan!

when he was chatting up Julie she thought he was the UB40 singer

has he had relayshuns with girls of many nayshuns i ask myself

it's a shame that none of that "rap" music the young people listen to has ever covered criminal activities

can't lie i had a real soft spot for Billy before he became a Lib Dem

also before he promised not to turn me away even if i was gay

you'd think a seasoned crime writer touching on the subject of crime and murder intersecting with music might have heard of Burzum Pimp C though

Jailhouse Rock is the last word in hard-boiled murder raps tho

George Formby - Leaning On A Motherfucking Lampost

George also did Suck My Blackpool Rock tbfttl

(b) he's married to julie christie :0

Crikey. Book does look v. interesting.

Duncan Campbell has an interesting life. He had a really good TV series in 1994 accompanying his book on The Underworld which I'd like to see again.

He's often confused with the investigative journalist Duncan Campbell, who has this information on his own website:

Got the right person? This website belongs to the Duncan Campbell that revealed the existance of GCHQ and was one of the founders of UK gay rights pressure-group / charity Stonewall.

Other people with the name Duncan Campbell include a singer in the band UB40, the 2014 UK Turner prize winner, a deceased firebreathing Scottish preacher, and the former crime correspondent, News Editor, and Los Angeles correspondent of the Guardian. You may be looking for the latter, especially if your interest is serious/organised crime - please check his Guardian contributor page. If you wish to reach that other Duncan, then you have not found the right web page.

(This Duncan is NOT married to a famous actress, either. Sorry - you want the Serious Crime guy for that.)

also not to be confused with the not famous at all Duncan Bell, a HG Welles obsessed Cambridge polprof type who probably wouldn't be a good crime reporter

the idea of having to dis-confuse the two duncan campbells that are journalists is a genuine proustian madeleine of the countercultural 80s lol

it probably isn't the reason he married julie christie but it's not NOT the reason

One you contact by PGP key, the other via their literary agent: what a summary of differing fortunes!

Cunts.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2021/sep/06/the-imagination-fix-10-ways-to-stay-wildly-creative-as-office-life-returns

A section of a Judith Butler interview which connects terfs with the fash was edited out

I preserved it before it disappeared. Just so everyone can be witness to their gross pusillanimity. pic.twitter.com/BgVp9QMzT5

— James 💜 Loxley (@oldnorthroad) September 7, 2021

Completely bizarre.

“ This article was edited on 7 September 2021 to reflect developments which occurred after the interview took place”

developments which occurred

fuck this rag

Excited for Judith Butler's I've-been-cancelled LBC slot

Guardian UK and US is a hell of a conflict.

i just read about the butler thing. are they going to explain the developments? if they were bullied by terfs they should say so but they won't