Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

I guess a problem is length of Test series. You're lucky to get 3 in a series most of the time now, unless it's between the Big Three

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/apr/09/sunday-with-kelly-jones-head-to-the-park-to-run-the-kids-out-then-pick-up-a-chicken

Rocker Kelly Jones describes a typical Sunday.

meat and potatoes, oh the irony

even Shakin' Stevens was never that dull

Shakey dull? Never!

Kelly Jones from the Superspreadeophonics?

My late cousin hung onto her maiden name because she didn’t want to be Kelly Jones.

I read this on Facebook and feel like it deserves reposting here: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/11/colin-from-accounts-review-at-last-a-female-character-thats-not-a-stereotype

I don’t think this author has seen a sitcom in the past 20 years based off of this review

it's so bad, just everything about it

I couldn't get past the first sentence tbh.

sounds like classic Mangan

Agree with Tom D.

Then?

We’ll head to the park to run the kids out, then I’ll pop in the butchers and pick up a chicken. Later, stick the veg on, Jakki does the roast potatoes, I’ll do the Yorkshire puddings.

If anyone says "stick the veg on" in my physical presence I am not responsible for my actions

That includes you, Jamie Oliver

there is a scene in the Altman Van Gogh movie where Gaugin is using a food analogy (cooking is like painting sort of thing) to intimate Van G's painting style lacked flair and imagination, like his shit cooking - or roughly something like that, obv his character was wrong in this case. But with this dullard, that would be a correct dis to make. You'd get more appetising food in a prison than in this boring cunt's house!

Calzino at his best.

Strikes me that 'inner life of Kelly Jones' would be a step down even from ILX's dull 'inner life of Noel Gallagher'.

"stick the veg on" makes me think "I am consuming the mandatory number of portions of vegetables until the day scientists come up with a pill to replace them"

confident I could've predicted Kelly Jones having a son named Marley

people sure love that dog

Calling your son Marley vs. calling your son Lennon. I suppose they should be grateful they weren't called Clapton.

It’s probably cos I’m into baseball now and am watching fellas called absurd things like Dansby, Kutter and Jeter (first name), but I’d take a nice honest Lennon or even a Clapton tbh

Calzino at his best.

Strikes me that 'inner life of Kelly Jones' would be a step down even from ILX's dull 'inner life of Noel Gallagher'.

My daughter has been to K Jones's house! Apparently, it is MASSIVE. School pals. I think she'll get a kick out of that article. She revels in the absurdity and boringness of All Dads.

"In lockdown, when everybody walked the Earth, it niggled me again."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/12/banished-to-boomer-island-tales-of-a-menopausal-gen-xer-for-hire

wow, if I was writing something with the goal of discrediting generational analysis I couldn't do better

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/apr/17/astrology-stars-art-understanding-restrictive

I’ve been in the grip of astrology all my life, so why am I turning my back on the stars? - Daisy Jones

Smug detractors may roll their eyes, but this ancient art gave me a deep understanding of who I am – until it began to feel restrictive

Observer leader writer and columnist promotes a Times review attacking J. Maugham KC.

“It is all downhill from the book’s very first, unforgivable sentence: “The life I have is hard, but I got to choose it, and the road that brought me here I did not.” Is this a song lyric? What does it even mean? Does Penguin no longer employ editors?"https://t.co/ilrQwHZssc

— Sonia Sodha (@soniasodha) April 22, 2023

God they are so clueless.

"PT Barnum famously declared that there is no such thing as bad publicity but the American showman might have revised his opinion on seeing Monday’s events unfold. While there’s no doubt they have their supporters, the protesters’ actions have been roundly criticised, and one suspects none of the snooker fans present in the theatre or watching at home will be rushing to glue their hands to the Sheffield Parkway dual carriageway in solidarity any time soon."

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/apr/22/empty-pockets-how-snooker-can-reduce-the-temptation-of-match-fixing

Helen Lewis:

Marina Hyde’s column gets a pass here [...] Her column works because she’s Marina Goddamn Hyde, that’s why

https://helenlewis.substack.com/p/the-bluestocking-vol-226

contra the thread question, just a shout out for Heather Stewart who is consistently excellent:

https://www.theguardian.com/profile/heatherstewart

Oops.

https://news.sky.com/story/the-guardian-pulls-cartoon-of-outgoing-bbc-boss-richard-sharp-after-antisemitism-backlash-12869197

"Likewise, the cute squid and the little Rishi were no more than that, a cartoon squid and a short Prime Minister,

A big "oh come on" at this bit.

Deafening silence from all those Guardian writers who were only too willing to associate Corbyn with anti-Semitism.

rowson is just another trenchant melt but he seems to think he's goya

Libs not getting it shocker. Burning the country and risking life against police is nostalgia?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/commentisfree/2023/may/01/france-gone-to-hell-politics-nostalgia?

a classic slice of above-it-all smugness, for when you've got no skin in the game

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/02/post-office-horizon-scandal-inquiry

would it not be possible to report on all this (an undoubtedly worthy subject) without all the whinging about someone being mean to you on Twitter?

She is totally twitter poisoned. That inquiry has still some way to go?

This post office scandal...I had totally missed it, which is crazy. But looking at it last night I see it's been very much widely reported over the years.

What is Marina Hyde on about?

Also...the Guardian are no strangers to doing week long reporting on a thing? Panama papers, Charles, etc. Couldn't they do a week long splash on this scandal?

she's right insofar as it hasn't received the level of coverage it should have done, but that's to do with structural problems in British political-media circles, not because people are scolding JK Rowling on social media

Guardian reporters can take the high ground today.

Whatever your views on the monarchy, these pictures should chill you. https://t.co/oAPe5McmPr

— Peter Walker (@peterwalker99) May 6, 2023

A Guardian journo taking the high ground, amazed she left it till the 5th paragraph before the anti-trans idée fixe kicked in. Yes I know it's Sunday so what can you expect

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/07/police-are-curbing-free-speech-not-just-at-behest-of-right-crackdown-mall

These people are obsessed.

congrats to the LAPPL on finding a new stenographer

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/may/09/los-angeles-police-department-records-release-undercover-identities

when you're the heir to an amphetamine fortune pic.twitter.com/HjAR3YREJC

— David East (@davideastUK) May 10, 2023

lol!

I'm sure she wrote for Sounds in the late 70's. Not read it but it's worth remembering that Thatcher considered sleep quite overrated and inessential.

"faster you fuckers" is no way to live