Brexit: give me a positive effect... XIV

[Seeker_UK]

2. Lots of contributors in Off Topic do the same thing except with the Guardian, including providing us with links to the article.

That's probably because it's the only rag that has an editorial policy that's not to the right of Ghenghis Khan and not behind a paywall.

 

[SteveS1]

That's probably because it's the only rag that has an editorial policy that's not to the right of Ghenghis Khan and not behind a paywall.

Helps when debating with people too tight to pay for their news.

 

[Minio]

It's disgusting. There is a complete absence of frozen chips in Sainsburys, so I'm told.
I'm having to eat chips made out of potatoes.
Benefits to Brexit?
Don't pull my chain!

 

[Le Baron]

It's disgusting. There is a complete absence of frozen chips in Sainsburys, so I'm told.
I'm having to eat chips made out of potatoes.
Benefits to Brexit?
Don't pull my chain!

You must know that the middle-classes don't eat 'chips' anyway? Whether frozen or otherwise. They eat 'potato wedges', which are arguably higher quality and this is reflected in the price.

 

[Spraggons Den]

The Guardian is a centrist newspaper now and is a useless guide for anything except ashes into a bin.

Maybe, but its content continue to get cited/linked by folk on here.

 

[Le Baron]

Maybe, but its content continue to get cited/linked by folk on here.

Yes indeed, it gets cited in a lot of places and I suppose you have to assess each article on its actual merit or lack of merit. On the whole it's possible to find the odd worthy article (I've seen ones by George Monbiot), but many are drivel.

 

[Nero]

People are hoarding frozen veg now. I saw someone in Waitrose today with a basket full of frozen peas. Actually, they were in bags, otherwise they would have gone through the holes in the basket but you get my drift.
It's possible they had a headache I suppose.

 

[Nero]

Maybe, but its content continue to get cited/linked by folk on here.

To be fair, it's one of the few papers that is not paywalled which accounts for a lot.

Edit : sorry just seen Seeker's post

 

[Barrymagrec]

People are hoarding frozen veg now. I saw someone in Waitrose today with a basket full of frozen peas. Actually, they were in bags, otherwise they would have gone through the holes in the basket but you get my drift.
It's possible they had a headache I suppose.

Well, at least they were giving peas a chance.

 

[Colin L]

The problem with UK papers is what are choices. Mail, Express, Telegraph are utter shite middle-class right-wing propaganda sheets.
The Mirror is crap as is the Independent. The Sun is drivel and the Times is generally OK but its a Murdoch rag so totally off-limits.
Kinda leaves the Reuters website and the Guardian to sift through.

 

[Le Baron]

To be honest there's more useful political news/long-form coverage in the London Review of Books or the TLS.

 

[tones]

Well, at least they were giving peas a chance.

Appeasement is very much in these days.

 

[eternumviti]

Well, at least they were giving peas a chance.

That railway bridge over the M25. Always used to lighten one's leaden spirits as you sat in some godawful traffic jam on a Friday evening. Or any other evening.

 

[Barrymagrec]

That railway bridge over the M25. Always used to lighten one's leaden spirits as you sat in some godawful traffic jam on a Friday evening. Or any other evening.

I used to see it at about seven in the morning, when I did weekly trips to Hertford.

 

[Kirk]

The problem with UK papers is what are choices. Mail, Express, Telegraph are utter shite middle-class right-wing propaganda sheets.
The Mirror is crap as is the Independent. The Sun is drivel and the Times is generally OK but its a Murdoch rag so totally off-limits.
Kinda leaves the Reuters website and the Guardian to sift through.

Good summary. Financial Times and The Economist - trigger words for some - are okay as well.

Re: previous posts, there is no equivalence between The Sun and The Guardian - one makes a decent stab at staying grounded in reality, the other is just a far-right propaganda rag.

 

[Nero]

I used to see it at about seven in the morning, when I did weekly trips to Hertford.

Yes, I think it should have been listed. Made me smile every time. It was converted to Thank you NHS for a while, but now the tagger Helch appears to have taken over. Shame.

 

[Kirk]

More twaddle.

See Post 793.

 

[i.j.russell]

I feel really sorry for the young of this country as they pick up the pieces of the world we have left them.

 

[eternumviti]

Good summary. Financial Times and The Economist - trigger words for some - are okay as well.

Re: previous posts, there is no equivalence between The Sun and The Guardian - one makes a decent stab at staying grounded in reality, the other is just a far-right propaganda rag.

I think you mean far left.

 

[Le Baron]

I think you mean far left.

You jest sir. A paper whose editorial line moved from democratic socialism origins to supporting Blairism can't credibly be referred to as 'far left'. Unless that appellation is delivered from the 'far right'.