Glinner is scheduling a 'Mess We're In Special' about the Wi Spa scandal this weekend.
The focus appears to be on The Guardian and Sally Hines, who have both taken on the mantle of being apologists for sex offenders, particularly those who have women and girl victims.
It is though doing my head in. Hines can be excused to a degree, in that she has previous form and her late night tweets have long been suspected to be written whilst she is...well, not entirely fully-functioning.
The Guardian though? Surely it would have to be a senior editorial decision to present the newspaper to the world as a pro-sex offender publication?
What possible commercial advantage is there in doing so? Surely the readership and subscription base would be less than impressed being associated with a newspaper presenting such a stance?
I am thinking though that this is deliberate; that Katharine Viner has decided to hasten The Guardian's demise, rather than see it simply staggering along from one week to the next. Realigning The Guardian to be pro-paedophile/pro-sex offender should in theory see the sales plummet enough for The Scott Trust to bin The Guardian and perhaps save The Observer.
The Observer's editor, Paul Webster, seems to be trying to distance the editorial stance further from The Guardian, though it's been 8 years since one of its writers won an award (Rowan Moore for 'Critic of the Year') and The Observer, like The Guardian, simply refuses to perform top-drawer investigative journalism.
It's been five years since a Guardian journalist last won an award, and four years since even a sports columnist was recognised, so its writers are now really 'B' tier ones at best.
If Viner is deliberately realigning The Guardian to be pro-paedophile/pro sex-offender, in an effort to accelerate it's destruction, beyond the US Guardian contributors, I'd struggle to think who she can depend-on in the UK to back her cause. LOJ immediately spring to mind, and he has already been exposed as being complicit in the attempted cover-up of the Wi Spa scandal, which Andy Ngo exploded across the world. But anyone else? Even Gaby Hinsliff is unlikely to bow to a request to write in favour of sex offenders/paedophiles. And Hadley Freeman? No chance she would buckle.
Viner can perhaps bring in guest columnists to do her bidding, and Sally Hines would be an obvious choice. The new policy though, if indeed it is a deliberate policy and not just temporary daftness on Viner's part, is going to need the willing assistance of more writers than just LOJ.