Compare and contrast.
Have been thinking this - the ‘GC feminists’ spitting with accusations of misogynist, bully, woman-hater, inc Suzanne Moore who tried to ‘expose’ him with an ancient and innocuous DM he sent her once that made *her* look bad - he was being nice to her lol. All radio silence now. https://t.co/CjST2sbgQo— Fisun Guner 🇵🇸🍉 (@FisunGuner) July 15, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 July 2022 08:14 (one year ago) link
When I worked at a large govt organisation the complaints procedure was explicit that if you raised a grievance, you would never know ,through official channels, the nature of the outcome. The purpose of the complaints process was very clearly to protect the organisation at all times, particularly from reputational risk, and to try to ensure complaints never reached a tribunal. The process wasn’t there to serve the complainant.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 15 July 2022 08:29 (one year ago) link
I worked in the Guardian HR department, albeit over a decade ago, and they were basically just the team for recruitment, restructures and redundancies, no particular interest in staff wellbeing, combative relationship with union, etc. They were the an team at the Guardian, not an HR team with "Guardian values" whatever that means. I certainly heard lots of unpleasant stories about NC swearing, yelling at workies and low-rung staff members, turning up drunk etc, abuse presumably tolerated as salty old-school behaviour
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 15 July 2022 10:16 (one year ago) link
Typo: *They were an HR team at the Guardian, not...
― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 15 July 2022 10:17 (one year ago) link
Doesn't sound like they practice what they are preaching on their pages.
Same goes with Verso, which only after a fierce battle have finally recognised their union.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 15 July 2022 10:49 (one year ago) link
Who'd've thocht it?
― Eavis Has Left the Building (Tom D.), Friday, 15 July 2022 10:55 (one year ago) link
the Verso situation was a bit of a shocker for me when i first read about it. the Graun, not so much.
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2022 11:23 (one year ago) link
I forgot the real kicker in that complaints process… The moment you engage with it, HR claimed you are bound by govt rules so that to speak of the issue in any open way was a breach of your employment and you could be dismissed! It was basically a way of keeping people silent. And if I were a multimillionaire I would set up an alternative charitable fund that govt employees could use to take legal action in their workplace and completely bypass the useless grievance process.
― Luna Schlosser, Friday, 15 July 2022 12:10 (one year ago) link
What does the Guardian recommend for keeping cool in the hot weather, I wonder?https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/jul/15/how-and-where-to-enjoy-open-water-swimming-safely-heatwave
― fetter, Friday, 15 July 2022 12:48 (one year ago) link
lol
― bury my heart in wounded kieth (Noodle Vague), Friday, 15 July 2022 12:50 (one year ago) link
tbf drowning under a layer of toxic blue-green algae in sewage polluted water is much preferable to cooking food when it's 38°
― calzino, Friday, 15 July 2022 13:07 (one year ago) link
Looks like they have give Nick the month off.
Nick Cohen Observer articles usually drop around 7pm... nothing as yet this week, but also still no comment from either him or Observer. Hope they're not just giving him a month's holiday as they did during metoo. deserves the full Rupert Myers @guardian @paulfwebster @nickcohen4— italian keir starmer (@wariotifo) July 16, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 17 July 2022 10:51 (one year ago) link
This needs to go to court.
I've got nothing but hero worship for the work wariotifo has put in to expose this piece of garbage.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:32 (one year ago) link
michael white was with them for 45 years and were cohenesque stories about him while he was still working there- unlike cohen he even acknowledged it in a just a bit of fun sort of way - they knew about this if I did and there is going to be plenty more they know about that I don't
― Left, Sunday, 17 July 2022 11:38 (one year ago) link
Today in the Observer New Review:
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jul/17/alastair-campbell-tory-leadership-truss-rest-is-politics-podcast-interview
Extraordinary, really.
"Alastair Campbell is a writer, broadcaster and mental-health activist best known for his role as former prime minister Tony Blair’s spokesman, press secretary and director of communications and strategy, and for his bestselling eight-volume series of diaries about the Blair years. He recently teamed up with former Conservative cabinet minister Rory Stewart to launch an odd-couple current affairs podcast, The Rest Is Politics, and is filming a new reality TV show for Channel 4, Make Me Prime Minister, which he will host with Sayeeda Warsi, the former Conservative party co-chair."
― the pinefox, Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
"odd-couple"
― Left, Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:24 (one year ago) link
got to find something for the sensible tories to do, they've got no chance of front bench action in the Conservative party and the only other place they'd fit in would be in Starmer's shadow cabinet.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:32 (one year ago) link
Stewart and Warsi are both to the left of Campbell?
Maybe an odd couple in that sense.
― the pinefox, Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:49 (one year ago) link
Campbell is the only one who doesn't speak Urdu.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:54 (one year ago) link
He's from Burnley, he speaks 'ow do.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 12:55 (one year ago) link
I've worked in Burnley before and never met anyone who speaks with a Campbell accent.
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:08 (one year ago) link
Turns out he's actually from Yorkshire!
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
ffs!
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:15 (one year ago) link
I know someone whose wife is doing some architecture work for him. His partner is very nice. That's all the gossip I've got.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:16 (one year ago) link
― calzino, Sunday, 17 July 2022 13:19 (one year ago) link
My friend Esther is very active in Holborn and St Pancras CLP and the Campbell/Millar house has been the site of a few parties. Their guest loo is wallpapered in tabloid splashes about AC.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:24 (one year ago) link
fws!
― Mark G, Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:33 (one year ago) link
looking forward to Make Me A War Criminal
― pasty drunks fuck off (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 17 July 2022 14:48 (one year ago) link
lock the doors
Important update on the Guardian heatwave liveblog by @rachela_hall. https://t.co/p22P5Kj8ve pic.twitter.com/nCklGA1Lnq— Jim Waterson (@jimwaterson) July 18, 2022
― Sudden Birdnet Thus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 18 July 2022 14:46 (one year ago) link
cunt writes for cunts about cunts, delighting cunts
‘Conservatives are so irredeemably split they removed Boris Johnson only to find they could not unite behind a replacement…’✍️ Nick Cohenhttps://t.co/OdgRgS2iBq— The Spectator (@spectator) July 18, 2022
― built like a kit malthouse (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:06 (one year ago) link
really trying his damndest to carry on calmly posting as he usually does after his position should be untenable at this fucking point.
― calzino, Monday, 18 July 2022 20:14 (one year ago) link
(xp) Stunning insights from the vile sex pest there.
― Tom D: I was in the army (Tom D.), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:27 (one year ago) link
great to see the media establishment straining every sinew to maintain omerta around a serial harasser and bully who doesn't even know how to spell straitjacket
― built like a kit malthouse (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 18 July 2022 20:32 (one year ago) link
On Novara but I'll put it here. They are expanding.
https://pressgazette.co.uk/novara-media-donors/
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 22 July 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/jul/25/tim-westwood-faced-bullying-allegation-inside-bbc-while-radio-1-dj
It's really bad when a large media organisation suppresses serious whistleblowing accusations. Now, let's have a look and see who's in this week's opinion pages...
― Critique of the Goth Programme (Neil S), Monday, 25 July 2022 14:25 (one year ago) link
This is what one Guardian comms ed is getting up to on twitter:
If this isn't exaggerating and weaponising antisemitism against the left, I don't know what is.Unsurprisingly, @SiamGoorwich works for the Guardian. This is standard practice at that right-wing-pretending-to-be-left-wing rag. pic.twitter.com/ep1MBasv83— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush 🟨🟥🥀🇵🇸🇾🇪 (@WarmongerHodges) July 25, 2022
― glumdalclitch, Monday, 25 July 2022 14:40 (one year ago) link
After tweeting about Nick Cohen and Guardian News and Media (GNM’s) attempts to discourage complaints from W1 and W2, I received a number of messages from other women wanting to talk about how life is at GNM. 🧵— Jo Maugham (@JolyonMaugham) July 28, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 28 July 2022 20:19 (one year ago) link
This was funny.
1/ If silly people could just stop writing silly things about things they've only done confirmation bias google searches on, the rest of us would have a lot more time to watch Stranger Things. Alas. Let's go paragraph by paragraph. pic.twitter.com/yBBMDMRgfL— Dmitry Grozoubinski (@DmitryOpines) July 29, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 July 2022 13:57 (one year ago) link
Jenkins is never afraid to pie himself in the face
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2022 13:59 (one year ago) link
Really good thing about twitter is how there is a rebuttal to any single piece of nonsense published on the day.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 29 July 2022 14:53 (one year ago) link
lol, that was a very thorough rinsing. If they had a reputation to protect they'd nuke the article.
― calzino, Friday, 29 July 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
I found it interesting that just after the invasion of Ukraine the newspaper published several pieces by Simon Jenkins about the war - along the lines of "NATO's aggression has backfired / we must lift sanctions on Russia" - and then he seemed to lose interest in the topic. I remember wondering if the editor had told him to knock it off. Or if the editor was sick of him writing essentially the same piece over and over again.
For example all but two of his columns from March were about the war, and one of the other stories was about the uselessness of sanctions (albeit against Iran):https://www.theguardian.com/profile/simonjenkins?page=2
But in April he only wrote two stories on the topic, and none at all in May, two in June, one in July. And most of them are really about domestic politics, only tangentially Ukraine.
When I saw "he wrote" I don't know how the editorial process works with opinion columnists in a national newspaper. Perhaps he wrote lots of pieces that were rejected, or perhaps the editor gave him a list of topics to cover. I just don't know. But it seems odd that with the war raging he decided not to cover it.
― Ashley Pomeroy, Friday, 29 July 2022 17:36 (one year ago) link
jenkins has been staunchly anti-interventionist for a long time which has made him right by default on foreign policy a lot of the time and i used to rate him for that but it’s become increasingly clear that he very often just doesn’t know wtf he’s talking about
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 29 July 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
Thank you @pressgazette for breaking an industry silence on this and for including some points from me. It's good to talk as BT used to say. https://t.co/oMiP3Fs3Fa— lucy siegle (@lucysiegle) August 2, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 10:35 (one year ago) link
bravo to GMG for such a fast response
― calzino, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 11:08 (one year ago) link
hey it's not like there's over a decade of reports on this scumbag's behaviour
― seo layer (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 2 August 2022 11:10 (one year ago) link
He'll get plenty of work in The Spectator anyway.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 2 August 2022 11:39 (one year ago) link
hmmm
I don't think this is why Nick Cohen has been suspended @Telegraph pic.twitter.com/zwyoMmroiG— Moya Lothian-McLean (@mlothianmclean) August 2, 2022
― built like a kit malthouse (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 3 August 2022 08:51 (one year ago) link
This guy is such a transphobic pest.
Hopefully this is the beginning of a change in athletic sports.
World Triathlon to allow transgender women to keep competing in female category. However testosterone must now be less than 2.5nmol/L for 2yrs. And 4yrs "must have elapsed since the transgender athlete has competed as a male in any sporting competition”https://t.co/3vHhUM6XBS— Sean Ingle (@seaningle) August 3, 2022
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 4 August 2022 08:55 (one year ago) link