Is the Guardian worse than it used to be?

Jobcentres will stop the venomous culture of sanctions against “scroungers”, with positive support into work instead.

I have not seen anything to suggest they are going to change one thing about the UK benefits system in any way at all .. apart from pushing vulnerable people closer to death a bit harder with *positive support*. "Captain Ruthless" - lol, stfu you preposterous old fool.

"Rockstar reception for Reeves"

Mind-blowingly racist article by Howard Jacobson today, admiringly retweeted by Sodha, Freeman etc

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/15/victim-blaming-is-a-crime-to-so-many-progressives-except-when-it-comes-to-jews

Where are all these people in the West who are celebrating the Hamas attack?

living in liberal war crimes fans' heads and not even having the decency to pay rent

I knew we were heading this way when I started hearing sensible left liberal types recommending david baddiel's blackface apologetics book as the one thing you have to read if you want to understand these issues

Steve Bell is not a hill worth dying on

Toynbee, as ever, the consummate liberal.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/31/labour-ceasefire-gaza-israel-tear-apart

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/nov/06/marine-le-pens-support-of-israel-seen-as-move-away-from-partys-antisemitic-past

Headline has changed from:

The Guardian
@guardian
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Marine Le Pen’s support of Israel seen as move away from party’s antisemitic past

To:

Le Pen’s anti-Islamism and support of Israel seen as attempt to obscure antisemitic past

The more you hate muslims the less anti semitic u are, thems the rules

lol oh guardianpaws

The Guardian
@guardian
People in Gaza: how have you been affected by the Israel-Hamas war?

never let it be said the grauniad is afraid to ask the hard questions

"I don't really watch the news, but the explosions are frightening my cat which is annoying"

"the real issue is does the IDF know what a woman is?"

Oh dear...

The Guardian took down a letter written by Osama Bin Laden because people on TikTok were discussing how he correctly blamed America for its role in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine by arming Israel

The document was there for 20 + years. They removed it today. pic.twitter.com/35QTfh0FYA

— شبير (@abolishnato) November 15, 2023

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/eeEyVZiVW_M/hqdefault.jpg

as has been pointed out elsewhere, still available at that seditious fifth column The Office of the Director of National Intelligence here

let's face it, OBL wrote much less offensive and less bigoted hottakes than Sonia Sodha tbf

Giving Dorries an interview, fuck off

So they've shitcanned Steve Bell for, er, this

https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/4adb62a2af56178716a047868623926806fd03fd/0_45_4803_2882/master/4803.jpg?width=700&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=a09263e9f14a48da6cd4564411571f9c

(aware that Steve Bell splits opinion here, but fucking hell)

you gotta be kidding

I thought it was a bit as well! But it's from Monday. As far as I can tell, it went out in the printed paper (maybe on Tuesday)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/series/guardian-comment-cartoon

lol this is gonna be somebody's kid again

yeah never mind the “joke” why is the art style so childishly terrible? is this deliberate? i honestly am confused by this

He says he has now been dropped. ‘It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for the Guardian now without being accused of deploying antisemitic tropes,’ he said. This is part of a wider trend.

Bell’s intended reference was not Shylock’s pound of flesh but Lyndon B. Johnson and Vietnam. You can read the words ‘After David Levine’ on Bell’s cartoon, a reference to the cartoonist whose work was synonymous with the New York Review of Books. In 1966, LBJ posed for the cameras, revealing a foot-long scar from gall bladder surgery. Levine satirised this, depicting the mark with a Vietnam-shaped scar, a defining physical mark engrained on the man. It was one of his most famous cartoons...

I'd completely missed that Bell had been pumped, bold move to replace him with a 16 yr old kid on a work experience placement

GCSE students are capable of better work than that!

What the fuck is going on with that letterbox?

The guardians next cartoon?

https://www.bing.com/images/create/political-cartoon-about-british-lawmakers-losing-t/65565b561a554a1895684e28987e370e?id=QX6XkZzRVzOO4Zb11FwCtw%3d%3d&view=detailv2&idpp=genimg&FORM=GCRIDP&mode=overlay

ai always seems to have trouble with flags (our flag specifically)

This is the usual terrible rubbish but the correction at the end made me lol:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/17/so-sorry-celebrities-but-you-should-take-a-tip-from-emily-blunt-before-you-offer-an-insincere-apology

Australian Graun writers are mostly awful. If I click on one by accident it’s not long before I click off.

The guardian always guilting you into giving them money

At least the Australian writers don’t hate trans people.

Yup, there is that.

I would only ever go to The Guardian when someone links to it on twitter or here. Over the years, it's become more and more of a window into liberals that vote like shit, lose their minds over moral panics, are constantly afraid their well off lives will end because "populism", "cancel culture" etc.

I would just never go to it for the writing.

will happily take the generally-pretty-decent guardian au, banal opinion writers and all, over the horrors of the uk edition

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/24/two-landlords-on-the-broken-property-rental-market

^ this is utter, bloody rubbish. Who does The Guardian think they are fooling?

Another fail in the S0nia S0dh@ game - hate-read her latest column and try to predict in which paragraph the ant-trans bigotry will begin. My guess? Paragraph 5. The reality? Paragraph 7. Bah! One of these days I'll get it.

I didn’t expect to read such a powerful piece in the Guardian of all places, but here’s Eva Wiseman

Appreciate her criticising the phoneys behind antisemitism.org (enjoy your march today with Douglas Murray and Yaxley-Lennon) and hope for more.

tbf Yaxley-Lennon has just been physically removed from the march by the police because the organizers didn't want him there.

Captain-Save-The Nazis Murray is still there of course, I assume.

Wearing a blue shirt and dark raincoat, Boris Johnson was spotted talking to demonstrators who had come together in the UK's capital.

He joined other celebrities who attended on Sunday, including Tracy-Ann Oberman, Rachel Riley and Robert Rinder .

the only anti-racism march that Boris Johnson attends

Twitter might die and I know many of you will celebrate but I am not looking to consuming this rubbish.

Ah, Howard Jacobson returns. Let's look back on his interview with Spike Lee pic.twitter.com/IwOZaajyzQ

— Ashley Clark (@_Ash_Clark) December 3, 2023

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2023/dec/09/diana-rigg-assisted-dying-rachael-stirling-mother-cancer

There were a few bits of this that felt like being punched in the gut, but I'm glad I read it

xp I remember there being a decade or so between my becoming aware of Jacobson and assuming he was some sort of important public intellectual and my actually reading something he'd written

he had regular R4 short slot called a point of view, where he'd say things like: Woman that talk about and critique the patriarchy, whether they like it or not, it just sound like naive student politics to me and they need to grow up. That kind of public intellectual.

A Point Of View is an interesting mix of commentators, some good, some bad, some appalling, some tedious.