The Guardian

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What the make-do-and-mend Dalek was trying to tell us
The makeshift makeover of the Doctor Who baddie in the New Year’s Day special was the perfect enemy for Brexit Britain
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I like her. She writes well. I reckon that article’s well worth a read.
 
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Art: Reincarnated by robotics, the unsettling face of Elizabeth I grimacing at the Armada Portrait is haunted by ageing, empire and a no-deal Brexit
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St-roll on...
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What Greggs’ vegan sausage roll says about Brexit Britain

Is the launch of a vegan version the latest salvo – or a chance for a divided country to heal itself?
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They shoe-horn Brexit into everything. :(
 
SteveJ said:
They shoe-horn Brexit into everything. :(
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There you go again Steve, "shoe-horning" Brexit into every conversation. Shoes - clearly a reference to clogs - and horns - clearly a reference to what I get whenever Kate Beckinsale is on the screen. To me that says you clearly fancy Europe or something.
 
:lol: I've never recovered from seeing her in Haunted, mate.
 
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A few years ago I was celebrating landing a new job. After a long string of terrible events, this was to be a glorious new chapter in my life. I rang my girlfriend and told her I had a surprise for her when she got home. I started to cook a celebratory curry.

At some point I forgot that I had just been chopping chillies and went to the toilet without washing my hands first. This involved the transfer of chilli to what a medical professional would later describe as the remains of my genitals. Drunk on success and alcohol, I’d made a poor decision, and now my penis and balls were on fire.

The next bad decision came moments later, when I remembered that yoghurt helps cool down your mouth when you’ve been eating hot food. I was urgently easing the affected area into a family-sized tub of natural yoghurt when my girlfriend and several of her colleagues walked in.
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The aliens are coming. And they’ve caught us with our pants down
Radio signals could be signs of extraterrestrial life. But, with Brexit and Trump, could they have chosen a worse time to call?

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/jan/11/aliens-radio-signals-space-brexit-trump
 
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Perhaps that’s why the art of Leonardo leaves you so enraptured. I felt as if I could see my own skeleton and those of Cardiff passersby as I popped into Greggs for a vegan sausage roll. Come to think of it, Leonardo would have approved. He was a vegetarian.
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:lol: Oh god.

They describe doing mundane everyday activities in the same way a student talks about their gap year off annoying helping some poor Africans. Such pride that they've stood in line with the unwashed masses.
 
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Moshenska believes that discussion of Milton’s Florentine sojourn is particularly timely as Brexit looms. It transpires that Milton, the most English of poets, was a polyglot Europhile whose most famous work is at least partially tinged by Tuscan ochre.
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Ooh, how quaint!:
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Poetry pharmacy set to open in Shropshire
The Emergency Poet, Deborah Alma, plans to dispense literary first aid from a shop in Bishop’s Castle
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Dressed in a white coat and stethoscope, Alma says she was invited to appear as the Emergency Poet at “schools, hospitals and festivals all over the place."
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Leonardo spoke out against Brexit through his paintings; The Last Supper warning of the post Brexit need to stockpile food. The painting's crumbling facade designed as a commentary on May's deal.

Joyce anticipated Brexit with his song Finnegans Wake, a pre-emptive metaphor for the confusion surrounding the Irish backstop.

Today it is almost impossible to see Gilgamesh as anything other than a pointed criticism of Brexit arrogance. Gilgamesh the brave Remainer faces off against the beast of Brexidu and then at the end I think a dragon kills him? which is also like Brexit.

At the time of his death Milton was rumored to be working on an anti-Brexit poem detailing Of Man's Second Disobedience.

Flemish Renaissance artists of the 15th and 16th century were preoccupied with fears over Brexit, as can be seen in Bruegel famous post-Brexit landscapes and Bosch's famous portraits of post-Brexit Brexiters.

Gary Glitter gives voice to Remainers everywhere with his hit song "Do You Wanna Be in My Union?" Brexiters everywhere because they are worse than paedophiles.
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I've tried to find words to respond to the last 2 posts and have totally failed.

edit - @dumbo got me
 
Guardian said:
Celebrity flatmates reveal all

'She - my flatmate Katherine - was smarter than I was. At Hooters, I was targeted by an inflatophiliac (someone who gets sexual gratification from body parts being inflated like a balloon). He pretended he was off the radio and that I could win $300 if I stuffed clear bin bags in my pantyhose and inflated them with a bicycle pump. I looked ridiculous, like a big marshmallow. The man’s requests carried on for a month and Katherine was the only one with the sense to say, “Something is wrong here.”'
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Next week: The suburban bluffer's guide to being working class
Support Corbyn without wealth guilt!

Including such handy tips as:
- When you should and shouldn't mention you own wooden bowls
- Choosing the right flat cap
- How to switch your 4pm glass of Cava for a trip down the 'Legion
- Where to find the best trucker's 'caf with Vegan options
 
I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.
 
balaks said:
I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.
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I agree with your general point, although it's still my primary news source, but I think it's been fairly London centric since the 90s and always a bit hipster (although that would have been an odd 1930s retro reference at the time).
 
balaks said:
I used to read the Guardian religiously - now it is full of utter tripe with clickbait articles and a total lack of direction - it's a shadow of it's former self and actually makes me angry reading it now.

It's very much a London centric paper nowadays and if you read it you would think that nothing exists out of the city - a paper taken over by trendy London hipsters who haven't a braincell between them.
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Their weekly long reads and investigative journalism are still the best for British news papers.
 
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