What is it with The Guardian??

I feel obliged to state that, if Nigel Farage ever wrote a good thriller then I would watch it. And the same goes for Owen Jones.

I say it as it is.

I think before you can work at the Guardian you must undertake a ritual, like a christening where the godparents promise to renounce Satan, except instead of Satan it’s JKR.

It’s telling that the better the actor, the less likely they are to slag off JKR. On the one hand you’ve got the likes of Tom Burke, Ralph Fiennes and Brian Cox and on the other Emma Watson and Rupert Grint. It’s almost like proper acting requires brains and nuance.

I read (and loved) the Guardian for years, I had friends who worked there, it was “my” paper for “my kind of people”! It had a left-wing bias but I genuinely thought it still kept its integrity in its reporting. It was a particularly pro-trans-biased anti-women’s rights article that peaked me, quite a bit later than many of this board, but of course when I saw, I couldn’t then unsee. The danger to women’s rights and the potential loss of single sex spaces could / would have passed me by otherwise, with work & family taking up my time, if the Guardian hadn’t put this on my radar. But I didn’t leave the Guardian, it left me.

In my understanding of the saying, it's not her chest my "auntie" has hair on 🤣🤣

Here you go…

what else was anyone expecting from the Graun? Its been a total bonfire for about ten years now and won't change without a wholesale clearcut of the management.

I think it's a shame Burke didn't stand up more robustly for JKR, even if just to say something like "She's a lovely person and I consider her a friend."

What's so irritating about Gilbey is his assumption that all right-thinking people will agree with him. Well, that and the mindless stupidity of his questions.

So how does he duck the crossfire that comes with playing JK Rowling’s Strike?

Maybe by living in the real world where it's rarely really a thing? And in future maybe he'll avoid idiotic guardian 'journalists'.

Goodness, young master Gilbey seems like one to avoid in future. Trying to force team JKR with frog face Farridge indeed!

Like others, the fawning over TRAs and ignoring valid points, like men in women's prisons and sports, or pretending that those things are fine and objectors are bullies has put me off buying the Graun.

Gilbey's probably sulking because he couldn't get him to slag off JKR and said positive things about her.

@RebelliousCow

Bambie is non binary, as any fule kno ! And you have referred to them as she/her throughout !

No chocolate for you. 🐪

It is moronic. The desperation to get something, anything for people to click on just permeates the whole article.

Remember, all this hatred and comparisons with Farage etc has come about after a woman shared her experiences of domestic violence. RSOH, eh, Guardian.

I'm cringing for him. RG would sound more intelligent if he asked 'if you were a biscuit, what type of biscuit would you be?'

Yes

I was annoyed that they didn’t mention The Musketeers. He was definitely funny in that.
And hot.

Ace pride 🤣 I doubt he's asexual. Hope not, anyway.

I bloody loved him in War and Peace. He's the absolute perfect Strike, almost as if JK wrote it with him in mind. Long may he thrive and entertain us, he is ace.

I love The Crucible, but it's really difficult to read right now. Too close to the bone.

She could have hit that target years ago but she gives so much to charity she keeps disqualifying herself. An amazing woman on so many counts.

The extremist TRAs are straight out of The Crucible. They want hand-wringing confessions and repentance - and they want to know who else is guilty by association…

“I want the light of God; I want the sweet love of Jesus! I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil! I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil! I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil!”

I don't, but they do.

“Pulling up of the conversational drawbridge” er no, you asked, he answered. If you are a journo conducting what is essentially a very general interview ,in this case a more or less promotional puff for an actors new film, and your subject has answered a question you move on to your next topic, apparently socks in this article.

If you were a journo conducting a very subject specific interview, then you would be justified in pushing harder, but this clearly wasn’t the case in this instance.

The Times Rich List came out today - and apparently JK's wealth has risen by £70 million over the last year - making her almost a billionaire.

She'll probably go and ruin the guardian narrative by paying all her taxes and donating large chunks to charities again.

There seems to be a need in left-radical circles to have figures of hate - which is very counter intuitive to the ideals of love, tolerance, inclusivity and acceptance that they espouse.

You don't strike me as naive but surely no-one thinks they genuinely espouse anything of the sort?

Very funny. The old comeback "If my auntie had hairs on her chest she'd be my uncle" seems particularly apposite here.

The Times Rich List came out today - and apparently JK's wealth has risen by £70 million over the last year - making her almost a billionaire.

Middle age women shouldn't have long hair, unless they're TW like Debbie Hayton, in which case it can be virtually down to their waist. And women over 50 should not wear pink leather coats, fishnets and stilettos - unless they go by the name of Eddie.