Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

lol lmao wow

Fair play to the Graun for managing not to put a picture of Rib Rensenbrink on the cover today

Rob Rensenbrink lol

‘Much more than a figurehead’: how the Queen was the beating heart of the Commonwealth

so it's fucking dead too then?

Is ham bourgeois, or not:
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/sep/09/good-food-west-virginia-supper-club

"(Amy Dawson) had grown up being told everything about West Virginia was backwards, and a sweating ham sitting on the kitchen counter seemed emblematic of that.

(However) in the UK, where I am from, having a Spanish or Italian ham shoulder or leg on your kitchen counter is now a status symbol: it communicates being cultured and well-travelled enough to know about delicacies from the European continent, having the money to buy it (they can cost upwards of $350) and, oftentimes, owning the expensive, fancy equipment to slice it."

It's a potentially interesting story - it would be nice to know when prawn sandwiches went from luxury food to naff to imitation luxury food to staple of football matches to nothingness - but it's really boring. It feels like an advert for a little clique of people who eat food at a long table (apparently for hours, because one of the photos is at night).

I realise you can't tell what people are like from looking at them, but the photographs put me in mind of the old "things white people like" blog from many years ago.

I really can't believe how much they're fawning over Brenda; this might be the worst of all: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2022/sep/10/farewell-your-majesty-cartoon-the-queen

All else aside it’s discomfitingly childish. Goo goo ga ga shit

riddell is hands down my least favourite political cartoonist, his colour sense just fkn reeks

All else aside it’s discomfitingly childish. Goo goo ga ga shit

The UK gets like that on these occasions. I think the thing that gets me most is the sheer scale of the play acting that goes on, I can't bear it.

The amount of fawning coverage the Guardian has devoted to the Queen is appalling. It's getting pretty North Korean in the UK right now, I mean I know republicans are in a minority, but not by so much, it's maybe 40/60? Let's hear their voices too for Christ's sake.

I saw t'other day that one of the Graun's other crap cartoonists (Edith Pritchett) is Matt's daughter. I bet that was a short job interview.

wait, is there no cartoon yet from matt himself?

his slicey bois have been silenced

out of respect, no cock and balls this week

Difficult to draw when your tears are making the ink run.

counterpoint: he knows his savage republican views are not wanted

Matt: the frenemy within

Republicanism is 25/75 - higher the older you get, of course, but even the 18-24 year olds (barely) support the monarchy https://www.statista.com/statistics/863893/support-for-the-monarchy-in-britain-by-age/

Sorry: lower the older you get.

It's mostly superficial and wishy washy and people saying what they think they should say, a few years of KC3 might upset the apple cart.

a few 😬 gifs even

this week Zoe Williams didn't listen to the radio, but she might listen to it again in the future. How much money is she paid for this shit? She is no Chiles, that's for sure.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/sep/20/the-radio-was-the-soundtrack-to-my-life-but-i-turned-it-off-a-week-ago-and-may-never-turn-it-back-on

They dedicated the Today programme to her before the 9 o’clock pips this morning.

i listen to the radio all the time and tbh there were bits of the World Service, Radio 3 and some sport on 5 Live that were completely listenable, don't know what kind of shit ZW listens to cos i'm not reading anything of hers on purpose

maybe Times Radio. I alternated between R3 and Jazz fm for some modicum of sanity. The latter were playing Miles Davis and Kenny Burrell tracks and the presenter was saying this is music inspired by locations QEIII was also inspired by!

after the first couple of days a lot of BBC radio was normal enough if you picked your spots

I don't why I made Lilibet the third, it's her son who's the thurd - but nm

oh yeah there was still some programming left. I was even much more grateful than usual for the NPR shite that was broadcast on WS. Just anything would have done in these circumstances. Some might counter why not just go on bbc sounds and pick some program that suits you, which is fair but sometimes you just don't want to make any decisions.

I don't why I made Lilibet the third, it's her son who's the thurd - but nm

oh yeah there was still some programming left. I was even much more grateful than usual for the NPR shite that was broadcast on WS. Just anything would have done in these circumstances. Some might counter why not just go on bbc sounds and pick some program that suits you, which is fair but sometimes you just don't want to make any decisions.

and the presenter was saying this is music inspired by locations QEIII was also inspired by!

lol that's an astonishing reach, but if it that's what it takes for the guy to play his jazz in peace...

in the annals of who embarrassed or disgraced themselves since the passing (so-called) of E2R i am going to state for the record that cartoonist matt earned his pay and nailed it! by *not* disgracing or embarrassing himself in his wry sideways look etc etc

The Observer, but...

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/02/if-labour-is-truly-the-party-of-equality-it-wouldnt-shut-down-the-trans-debate

there's a y in the day, and the Guardian Media Group are platforming hate speech as per

genuinely chilling. the kind of thing i would have expected in the heyday of the daily mail.

Save us from former Ed Miliband advisors passing themselves off as journalists or, perplexingly, comedians.

And people wonder why we hate British comedy.

The amount of fawning coverage the Guardian has devoted to the Queen is appalling. It's getting pretty North Korean in the UK right now, I mean I know republicans are in a minority, but not by so much, it's maybe 40/60? Let's hear their voices too for Christ's sake.

The 40 and 60 are both much lower than that, 'I dont care's surely outnumber republicans, possibly monarchists too

I think the "I'm not a royalist but..." brigade outnumber both. For the moment anyway.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/03/how-we-met-i-like-to-think-of-myself-as-rational-but-this-felt-like-love-at-first-sight

It's crazy how they publish both the trans debate piece and the one above.

Optimistic.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/oct/03/tories-heading-for-oblivion-u-turns-kwarteng-truss-45p-tax-rate

i've been waiting for tory oblivion since eu tensions were due to tear them apart long before brexit. call me when it happens.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2022/oct/06/dining-across-the-divide-being-two-blokes-in-middle-age-we-did-talk-a-bit-about-military-history

"An IT worker and a barrister are both interested in policing. But where do they stand on Brexit?"

Literally, surprisingly, written by ... Zoe Williams.

"Richard He was over a decade younger than me. He’d got longish hair and a beard, whereas I’m clean-shaven, but otherwise he looked a normal chap.

Doug I had chilli prawns, chicken and then a lemon tart."

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/oct/08/i-thought-my-boyfriend-of-10-years-was-going-to-propose-then-he-told-me-he-was-transgender

never not at it

ugh, I don't really need to click that do I

i wouldn't

Sorry but “boyfriend of ten years” and “going to propose” are mutually exclusive. I’m not clicking that shit either, but wow if you missed one such hint I’m not surprised you missed another.

The article is actually fine, she’s an ally and the article was published with her ex’s blessing. Read to the end.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjca4x8AeH8/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

xp you know what publication doesn’t deserve to get the benefit of the doubt from people? The guardian.

yeah i looked at the opening sentence and jumped to the obvious conclusion

Also, I don’t know how you square being an ally with telling this particular story and sharing praise from your friends on your Instagram story about how brave you are.