What's up with the Guardian?
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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/05/bo...
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
Slow.Patrol said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/05/bo...
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
She only writes on the one subject.Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
I'm not sure they even pay for most of this content, it looks more like it's just a platform to publish anything that'll drive clicks.
Slow.Patrol said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/05/bo...
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
Nobody would get deported if they knew they could prevent it by being difficult. It costs what it costs. Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
As the Home Office put it.
"We will not allow disruptive behaviour to prevent us removing criminals and those that are in the UK illegally. We make no apology for the additional steps it proved necessary to take to remove this individual.”
Slow.Patrol said:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/jun/05/bo...
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
Seriously.
Sympathy article for an illegal migrant who got deported (eventually) after sexually abusing himself on a bus.
article said:
One day, he says, while under the influence, he got on the bus and fell asleep. “I took off my pants, but have no recollection of doing this. The CCTV footage shows me leaning against the bus window, sleeping without my pants on. I didn’t approach anyone or touch anyone.”
As you do.
Rightyoh.
pheonix478 said:
It's been swirling the bowl for a while now. A couple of days ago they did an article on Clarkson's Farm. Unsurprisingly, they don't like it so they refer to him as "Jeremy Kardashian". The desperation for clicks is getting tragic.
I reckon that was all started after he burnt an effigy of the guardians poster boy on bonfire night.Rushbridger leaving was a massive negative for The Guardian. The quality of articles has steadily deteriorated. The in-house content is still good, occasionally very, but the columnists are poor.
Some of the work they do together with left of centre newspapers in Europe have been superb. Eye-opening.
Some of the work they do together with left of centre newspapers in Europe have been superb. Eye-opening.
butchstewie said:
Just the Yin to the Telegraphs Saturday essay on "White Rage" Yang.
Some of the opinion pieces are bats
t.
It's bonkers.
He shouldn't be here.
Agreed. I wish the two would come together and annihilate each other akin to matter/antimatter. Some of the opinion pieces are bats
t.It's bonkers.
He shouldn't be here.
Imagine laying on your deathbed knowing you'd spent at least a part of your working life contributing to either of those publications.
_Rodders_ said:
butchstewie said:
Just the Yin to the Telegraphs Saturday essay on "White Rage" Yang.
Some of the opinion pieces are batst.
It's bonkers.
He shouldn't be here.
Agreed. I wish the two would come together and annihilate each other akin to matter/antimatter. Some of the opinion pieces are bats
t.It's bonkers.
He shouldn't be here.
Imagine laying on your deathbed knowing you'd spent at least a part of your working life contributing to either of those publications.
pheonix478 said:
It's been swirling the bowl for a while now. A couple of days ago they did an article on Clarkson's Farm. Unsurprisingly, they don't like it so they refer to him as "Jeremy Kardashian". The desperation for clicks is getting tragic.
They trashed it when it first came out, awarding it just one star 
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jun/...
"Eight hours of a buffoon screwing things up for our supposed entertainment is bad enough, but it’s his total contempt for farming that makes this such a grim harvest"
_Rodders_ said:
Agreed. I wish the two would come together and annihilate each other akin to matter/antimatter.
Imagine laying on your deathbed knowing you'd spent at least a part of your working life contributing to either of those publications.
This is the problem.Imagine laying on your deathbed knowing you'd spent at least a part of your working life contributing to either of those publications.
The papers are driven by a desperate need to get clicks online.
Journalism seems to have gone downhill a long way very quickly.
The BBC website is dumbed down a lot compared to 10 years ago.
A lot of people seem not to bother with current affairs at all any more.
I used to read the Telegraph and Grauniad websites a lot before they went paywall.
Now I don't. Am I missing much?
I don't actually feel the need for too much detail when the big picture is war in the east and the Western World run by idiots.
Derek Smith said:
Rushbridger leaving was a massive negative for The Guardian. The quality of articles has steadily deteriorated. The in-house content is still good, occasionally very, but the columnists are poor.
Some of the work they do together with left of centre newspapers in Europe have been superb. Eye-opening.
I think that's what makes it so sad; they can do some excellent journalism. I can only imagine those guys must roll their eyes when they see so much of the other drivel given column inches. Same goes for the Torygraph, although that's a little further round the u bend at this pointSome of the work they do together with left of centre newspapers in Europe have been superb. Eye-opening.
It's been going down the tubes for a while, with a flippant and yet censorious journalistic style - while at the same time taking itself too seriously. The binning of Steve Bell epitomises the decline, where there was at least a funny outlet satirising the frankly ridiculous political class in this country - and beyond. A bit like the Telegraph, which is also full of light weight opinionated soundbites. Investigative journalism will not be enough to save these once great newspapers.
Don't even get me started on the Observer.
Don't even get me started on the Observer.
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