Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

There were some homemade signs, but two banners centrally produced, one uncontroversial: “No to Nuclear War.” The other was more problematic, drawing an elliptical but discernible equivalence between Putin’s aggression and Nato’s “expansion”, by saying “no” to both. This was quite complicated.

Why is she describing the second banner in such a coy way? Does she mean it says " Stop the War. Russian troops out! No NATO expansion" ?

I'm sure her pre-teen kids are quite capable of using wikipedia. Stop the War event ≠ 'Jeremy Corbyn rally, of course.

NATO expansion is good now?

‘War is bad because it kills people’

got no problem with this sentiment nor how it is expressed, even if dickhead posh guardian liberals who identify as left-wing because they once went on an ANL demo in '91 are going to ridicule it as "student politics" or naive.

I have watched the whole of the speech that JC gave in Trafalgar Square - last Saturday I think. It's excellent. It warns of the horror of nuclear war. In case anyone was wondering, it extensively condemns Vladimir Putin - not something that ZW would want us to know.

Quite something how she flaunts her ignorance. I'm sure it's intended as "relatable" self-deprecation but there's no reason not to take it at face value. The piece seems like it's leading up to how she explains the war to her children, the nuance involved in "No to NATO Expansion, No to Putin" - but she just ends the column instead. She gets paid for this?

She gets paid for this?

I never read any of these people because I can barely get past a couple of paragraphs without this question screaming in my brain.

They pay brisk money for this... oh wait, sorry wrong thread.

OK, I understand why she is finding it hard to explain an anti-war rally.

Some people have difficulty explaining biscuits..

Isn't that an Adrian Chiles column?

haha!

williams has been emulating chiles more as sodha has been heading into melanie phillips territory. identity crisis!

That's the politics of your paper, didn't you know?

Just had an email from LinkedIn saying the Guardian is looking for a political editor, which is good to know.

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) March 10, 2022

Lol, couldn’t happen to a nicer person

She’s now claiming that she was only surprised that Linkedin was advertising to her, and that she already had plans to move to “another part of the Guardian” but that’s certainly not how the first tweet reads.

Bit of personal news from me: after 6 mad, wonderful years as political editor, I'm breaking out of Westminster.
I'll be the Guardian's new special correspondent - reporting on how the pandemic, and Brexit, are changing lives and livelihoods; and keeping an eye on "levelling up".

— Heather Stewart (@GuardianHeather) February 25, 2022

she announced it herself weeks ago

reporting on how the pandemic, and Brexit, are changing lives and livelihoods; and keeping an eye on "levelling up"

oh wow, bookmarked

maybe her new roving reporter position wasn't as it was sold to her and she isn't happy about it, but u love to see it!

not to defend her political editing (it sucked) but the first tweet is easy enough to read as the joke it's meant to be (she's pretending to find informative and useful a thing she already knew)

That would be more believable if I didn’t know a fashion editor there at one time who found their own job advertised suddenly and was not expecting it at all - and because she hadn’t done the full two years couldn’t even nab them for constructive dismissal.

ok but stewart evidently was expecting it, she announced herself weeks ago as calz points out

Fair enough but it does seem designed to elicit "oh noes how can they be so horrible to you" etc.

Actually relatively good by Ronay's recent standards

https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2022/mar/07/manchester-united-derby-reaction-roy-keane-media

though it includes his bad and annoying tic: "There are two things worth saying about this. First, no useful purpose is served here."

Wondering what they have planned for us tomorrow

I know Hadley Freeman writes utter tripe during the weekdays but The Observer houses an astonishing amount of shit by itself.

just like clockwork: https://www.dumptheguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/mar/20/observer-view-cass-review-gender-identity-services-young-people?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Well ok now. Detailed thread from OJ on Suzanne Moore and office Pol re: trans rights.

OK everyone, this is boring, there's one trillion more important things in the world, and I'm sorry to inflict this on your timeline!

For the last few years, Telegraph columnist Suzanne Moore has had, let's say, a bit of a grudge against me.

— Owen Jones 🌹 (@OwenJones84) April 6, 2022

So this is the second time that The Guardian has simultanously published a piece by Susanna Rustin (broadly against trans equality) and a counter-piece by Zoe Williams (broadly pro). This is clearly how The Guardian plans to triangulate around the whole issue. pic.twitter.com/6tETuPgK5r

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) April 7, 2022

ironically both articles criticise Labour for not having a consistent policy

Quite the final sentence in this: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/apr/06/jimmy-savile-a-british-horror-story-review-a-welter-of-devastating-detail

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/apr/08/trans-people-mental-health-crisis-point-uk-warn-experts

Trans people’s mental health is at crisis point in UK, warn experts

Helplines report rising demand, as conversion practices decision follows years of ‘negativity from government, media and others’

ffs

🤔

This is grim.

Former Labour press chief Alastair Campbell has written an open letter in this week's The New European asking why politicians can’t be more like Jurgen Klopp.

👉 Campbell also says he can see the Reds boss is 'much more than just a football man.' pic.twitter.com/O1G7HnylHK

— Liverpool FC News (@LivEchoLFC) April 27, 2022

Why have they done Klopp as the donkey from shrek? Mind this is the same art department that did Starmer as Bond.

Take it to the Ronaldinho Bottle Opener thread

it seems a bit at odds to be paired with an article where Campbell is suggesting that Klopp possesses the competent managerialism🤢 skillz to be a top sensible, but also it's correct because they are all donkeys!

Dining Across The Divide strikes polarisation gold yet again! pic.twitter.com/eOJZs3cTSs

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) May 5, 2022

it's a very interesting match up here, one of the white middle-class graun-reader blokes doesn't wear spectacles, the other does.

'throw one out there for the Greens'

if he actually used those words, this is a very bad start.

I don't like the sound of his voting booth etiquette, he should be arrested!

Tug one out 4 Winston McKenzie

Charles Booker, a Black former state lawmaker who emerged as a powerful voice against racial justice in the aftermath of the fatal police shooting of Breonna Taylor in 2020, won the Democratic Senate primary in the state.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/29/britain-political-future-milton-keynes-brexit

Want to see where Britain’s political future will be decided? Head to Milton Keynes
John Harris

Can't be bothered to drive more than an hour up the A1 is it now? Looking forward to his pieces on Watford next year.

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guardian branching out into hourly updates of what Johnny Depp happens to be doing at that particular moment

tbf it was news to me when i found out this ludicrous cunt and domestic abuser is "on tour"

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/jun/04/as-we-unite-for-the-jubilee-lets-believe-britains-best-days-are-ahead-not-behind

Must be Sunday! Leaving the ludicrous message aside, wtf is this indigestible word salad?

In order to succeed in the rapidly changing world, moving to a net zero and digital future, we need an audacious plan to take the lead in the industries of the future so we can sell goods and services that deliver the carbon-neutral world everyone needs and provide good jobs in every part of the country. Labour’s bold climate investment pledge is just that.

Never, ever let the politicians draft the articles themselves!

"Labour’s bold climate investment pledge"

just a lonely women talking bout things that don't exist

I'm sort of looking forward to finding out how ravaged the environment can get while these people cling to the idea of a green capitalism

"Our country has always led the way as a measured and decent example to the world", although there was that time we colluded with France and Israel to bomb Egypt and attack Port Said in order to regain control of the Suez Canal. That was a while back, though. And there's something queasy about name-dropping "my good friend Jo Cox" but I'm sure she means well.

"If 10 years ago we had invested in our own capacity for 5G technology, say, we would not find ourselves at the mercy of Huawei and the Chinese Communist party today" - are we at the mercy of Huawei? Isn't 5G technically a private sector thing? The government assigns the spectrum but the actual exploitation of the technology is up to the private sector, which can still remember the massive overbidding on 3G. Would higher-speed internet really make us independent from China?

I mean, technically this is party communication broadcast by The Guardian, as a contractual obligation, so it's not really The Guardian's voice. Wasn't there a chap a while back who was raising his dogs with a vegan diet? Not necessarily a bad idea, but it inevitably led to a flood of comments about how he was monster because he owned a pet. The constant tension between the environmental columnists and the people in the Comments section who want to reduce the human population with forced sterilisation is hilarious.

Didn't one of the columnists turn out to be working for Harvey Weinstein? The one who looked like Joe Strummer.

Labour comms seems to be fixated on presenting the party as being more reactionary, more conservative, more authoritarian, more committed to hardcore fiscal austerity than the Conservatives. Powell is probably one of the worst people in the shadow cabinet in terms of trying to spin this as something that might appeal to the electorate, because she can only do platitudes in series and is a complete fuckwit. It's so fucking empty and bleak it makes Cameron's feigning of being a One Nation Tory 10 years ago actually look more hopeful and progressive.