The Guardian

ThierryHenry said:
A friend of mine worked at The Guardian until earlier this year. Apparently two years ago the Guardian Trust (which funds The Guardian) sold Auto Trader for around £1b, with the plan to then invest the proceeds of that sale, and allow The Guardian to live off the returns on that investment. The figure was that they could now survive for ever on a £30m annual loss, and so everyone thought the paper was saved. The next year, print advertising collapsed from its already low position and the paper lost £90m. The reaction has then been a whole new batch of lay offs and their big drive for donations. Something has to change - we only deserve the journalism we pay for.
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The missus and I both support the Guardian. At about AU$10 per month each I consider it money well spent. Quality investigative journalism will be a thing of the past if we keep allowing the brain dead Murdock press and Mail Online rule the world.
 
An interesting article about the discovery of lost sketches by Goya is ruined by the Sotheby's art expert's hilarious name:

Guardian:

'Severine Nackers, head of prints at Sotheby’s in London, where the set will be sold in April, described the prints, still in the 19th-century ledger ruled for columns of accounts, as “a once in a lifetime discovery”'.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-found-french-chateau-once-lifetime-discovery
 
SteveJ said:
An interesting article about the discovery of lost sketches by Goya is ruined by the Sotheby's art expert's hilarious name:

Guardian:

'Severine Nackers, head of prints at Sotheby’s in London, where the set will be sold in April, described the prints, still in the 19th-century ledger ruled for columns of accounts, as “a once in a lifetime discovery”'.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-found-french-chateau-once-lifetime-discovery
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:lol:Sounds like a Harry Potter character.
 
I've been laughing about it for around 15 minutes, chief. :D
 
SteveJ said:
An interesting article about the discovery of lost sketches by Goya is ruined by the Sotheby's art expert's hilarious name:

Guardian:

'Severine Nackers, head of prints at Sotheby’s in London, where the set will be sold in April, described the prints, still in the 19th-century ledger ruled for columns of accounts, as “a once in a lifetime discovery”'.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-found-french-chateau-once-lifetime-discovery
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I think it's a load of bollox mate
 
SteveJ said:
An interesting article about the discovery of lost sketches by Goya is ruined by the Sotheby's art expert's hilarious name:

Guardian:

'Severine Nackers, head of prints at Sotheby’s in London, where the set will be sold in April, described the prints, still in the 19th-century ledger ruled for columns of accounts, as “a once in a lifetime discovery”'.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...-found-french-chateau-once-lifetime-discovery
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:lol:

He sounds like a character in a radical feminist superhero movie, played by Germaine Greer wielding a magical garden shears.
 
The video to go with it is like a car crash, every one of them is horrendous in their own "special" way.
 
C-uuDT_WAAA2DV_
 
Guardian said:
I was reminded of this loss as I cycled home one balmy evening from my weekly dance class. I had taken the route along the Thames towpath and then cut across to a lane that ran along a brook, which was where, in my headtorch beam, I caught sight of a moth. A single moth. And I realised with shock that this was the only moth I had seen on a night that should have had their wings dancing like blossom in a spring breeze. I wept.
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Just seen that wasps headline. :lol:
 
'Avocado Hand & fruit and veg-related injuries'. I kid you not.
 
'How to knit Jeremy Corbyn out of organic pipe cleaners'
 
There may be a very good point to the artwork but it all seemed too Guardian for me to ignore. :D
 
"They're like grenades..only from Waitrose."
 
SteveJ said:
I'm a lazy twit & also absent-minded, mate. I forgot we had this thread until I read the Guardian's piece about 27,000 ties being used in an art installation which is 'a scream against the patriarchy'.

https://www.theguardian.com/artandd...e-artist-uses-27000-neckties-for-installation
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A 'silent embroidered scream', no less:lol:

I know some DM journos and they take the piss with the shit they write. I know one Guardo journo too and he winced when they relaunched as Berliner with a really tumescent social worker splash.
It does amuse me that people outside of media believe all DM/Guardo journos are massive right/left wing shills, rather than paid workers skilled enough to write tailored to their readership.
 
Jippy said:
A 'silent embroidered scream', no less:lol:

I know some DM journos and they take the piss with the shit they write. I know one Guardo journo too and he winced when they relaunched as Berliner with a really tumescent social worker splash.
It does amuse me that people outside of media believe all DM/Guardo journos are massive right/left wing shills, rather than paid workers skilled enough to write tailored to their readership.
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Is this true of reporters alone or also columnists/opinion?
 
It is by far the best newspaper in Australia for local news (Aussie papers hang your heads in shame). One of the few papers that still does investigative journalism.
 
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