Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

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

Really enjoyed reading a column, for a change.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/14/my-father-is-obese-and-i-cant-stand-being-around-him-ask-philippa-perry

my column would've been "Fuck off"

Would be an improvement

Liew is really good. Just laying out the facts, plainly and simply

"So you don’t just sign Erling Haaland, you sign Julián Álvarez to give him a rest. Kalvin Phillips arrives for £45m, doesn’t play all season, and it’s fine. You decide – and just reflect on the breathtaking audacity of this for a second – that you need an upgrade on Phil Foden, and so up pops Jack Grealish. If someone accuses you of breaking the rules, you hire the world’s greatest lawyers to shoot them down. This is perfection, but not so much the perfection of great art as the perfection of a finely-executed military campaign, the perfection of unlimited wealth, the perfection of political strength, the perfection of a pointless mile-high crystal pyramid in the middle of the desert. No academy players and no Mancunians started for City last night. Does this matter? Does anything matter?"

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/may/17/manchester-citys-inexorable-hard-power-crushes-real-madrid

I'm hoping Inter spend the entire match in their own half and then win on penalties.

First headline article on the site this morning, have you ever read such a piece of shite?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/21/senior-tories-say-trump-style-takeover-could-precipitate-party-meltdown

The former cabinet minister Matt Hancock told the Observer: “The Conservative party is finished if it succumbs to a Trumpian-style takeover. These Conservative Corbynistas are as destructive to the Tories as leftwing activists were to Labour.

Lets pretend there is a meaningful distinction between the right and the so-called moderates of the Tories because it helps to feed an illusion of a political pluralism that doesn't really exist.

They are mostly all parroting more or less the same illiberal Trumpian stuff re: trans rights, law and order and immigration policy (as are Labour), sure some of them use more openly fascistic rhetoric. And some of them are still sore about the electorally suicidal Truss tax cuts getting shitcanned, and plus are divided on what position to take on nimbyism. But I'd only call them factions in the sense of they are intra-party cliques of rivals who hate each other.

Calzino OTM.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/19/national-conservatism-conference-leftwing-dark-age

This piece hits on some of the points Calzino is making. But I also felt that this was as much about where do the always unhappy racists go after they've been given everything they want through Brexit.

And Brexit was a 25 year project for these freaks. It was laughed at the beginning like this was.

The biggest issues for this to work are decline of newspapers and the decline of the state that gives a sizeable portion of people security and faith in what it does. It just won't deliver pensions and retirement and secure housing.

The Guardian has treated the Nat-C event with kid gloves mostly, even putting a video on YouTube titled 'The most memorable moments from...'.

NEW: Seven women say the columnist Nick Cohen groped them or made unwanted sexual advances while he was at The Observer.

A Financial Times reporter had the story, but her editor killed it. https://t.co/ETopgAUW25

— Jane Bradley (@jane__bradley) May 30, 2023