The Guardian
Fewer British workers are sick, so why isn’t the Guardian celebrating?
I know the Guardian is desperate to stop Brexit and will dredge up anything to try to back its case…
A very Guardian Christmas: decorate a tree branch
Christmas – the season of goodwill, turkey, tinsel and general over-indulgence. Except that is, if you work at the Guardian. With…
A letter to… The Guardian’s sanctimonious letter writer
This one is priceless, believe me. Truly priceless. For a long time now I’ve been buying The Guardian for its…
Guardian in a pickle over Seumas Milne’s return
With Seumas Milne on the way out as Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications, he is widely expected to return to the…
The Guardian declares war on street parties: ‘a front for a middle-class nationalism that celebrates austerity’
Barely a week goes by without the Guardian declaring war on a seemingly harmless food type. According to the paper tea-drinkers…
If atheists do have values, what are they?
There’s an interesting article in the Guardian by Julian Baggini. Now that nearly half of Britons say that they have…
Dear Guardian, stop patronising America
Oh dear. I’ve always admired Jonathan Freedland, and he usually writes so well about America. But his latest contribution to…
Polly Toynbee forgets to check her privilege on Marr
With the Sunday papers filled with the details of David Cameron’s past tax returns, the subject of his family’s wealth…
Is Seumas Milne’s Guardian ‘leave’ coming to an end?
When Seumas Milne — the Guardian associate editor and columnist — was hired as Jeremy Corbyn’s director of communications, Labour released…
Why is there one rule for badgers, and another for mosquitoes?
It’s unusual for a left-leaning paper to propose wiping out an entire species. Normally they’re proposing doing the exact opposite…
Are Blairites being purged from the Guardian?
During the Labour leadership election, Guardian readers complained that the paper’s Jeremy Corbyn coverage was worse than its coverage of…
Nine days on, why is the left still in denial about the Cologne attacks?
Still in denial, then. The liberal left, having first tried to ignore the massed sex attacks in Cologne (and in…
How FHM readers lost their safe space
‘A victory for feminism,’ came the cries this week, as news broke that FHM was to close after 20 years.…
George Osborne: Corbyn is not the cause of Labour’s problems
George Osborne was interviewed by Kath Viner, editor of The Guardian, this afternoon and offered some interesting thoughts on Jeremy Corbyn.…
That LinkedIn photograph has served Charlotte Proudman very well, hasn’t it?
Gosh, she’s done well out of notoriety, has Charlotte Proudman. After emerging from entire obscurity after outing an older male…
Corbyn wins: a delicious humiliation for the liberal Left
The groans that must be coming from the newsrooms of the Guardian and the BBC right now! With a descant…
Sharing a photo of a dead Syrian child isn’t compassionate, it’s narcissistic
Have you seen the dead Syrian child yet? Look at his lifeless body. His head buried in the sand. His sad, resigned…
Guardian journalist enjoys wild night on David Cameron’s private jet
With the newspapers frequently filled with tales of former public schoolboys misbehaving abroad, Mr S was unsurprised to hear reports that a…
Jon Ronson is wrong — Katie Hopkins isn’t insane, damaged or weird
Another conflict of interest and indeed of my mental state. I can think of no journalist I enjoy reading more…
Is the Guardian about to endorse Jeremy Corbyn?
Despite frequent claims from both sides of the political spectrum that Labour leadership hopeful Jeremy Corbyn is ‘unelectable’, he has so…
Jonathan Aitken says farewell to Alan Rusbridger
Sore heads over at the Guardian this morning after yet another leaving party for Alan Rusbridger. In what Mr S makes…
Alan Rusbridger and the Sword of Truth
When Alan Rusbridger stepped down as the editor of the Guardian last month, there were emotional scenes at Guardian HQ…
Tea is back on the menu at the Guardian
Last week the Guardian‘s food police turned their attention to tea. After the publication declared war on HP sauce in January,…
Five things we’ve learnt from the Guardian’s profile of Ed Miliband’s campaign
Ed Miliband’s general election campaign was clearly dysfunctional, but now we have an insight into just how bad it was. The Guardian’s political editor Patrick Wintour…
Do Google and Facebook threaten the free press?
What are newspapers for? The answer, of course, is not just to tell us what’s going on and explain the…
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