What is going on at The Guardian?

[Glinner]

An investigation into why the Guardian has been negligent on the matter of women's rights turns up a lot of interesting connections. Parents should pay particular attention to the information about the MAP, who offer counselling to children as young as 11 in schools across the country. grahamlinehan.substack.com/p/its-a-racket-folks

Sadly, this explains a lot. Absolutely devastated at what has become of the Guardian these days, it was my go-to read for so many years. They won't get another penny out of me.

Thank you @Glinner for bringing this to our attention.

I'm not convinced by a out and out deliberate conspiracy re the Guardian. Rather I think it is a combination of several things. 1) individual personal politics 2) general rise in culture war/binary extremist positions 3) desperately chasing the global woke yoof traffic to avoid a fucking paywall 4) increasingly intolerant staff and instead of telling them to bog off the management have tried to appease them 5) thinking that you can take your older/non-woke/liberal/centrist readers for granted and they will stay loyal and 6) Kath Viner is a crap editor.

The last point is really important. It isn't just this issue she's cocked up - their whole coverage of the last 5 years of corbynism and brexit has been a disaster, her strategy of commissioning pieces from not very good but gobby glorified bloggers has damaged the paper's reputation significantly. Plus obviously there is the whole seamus Milne issue.

...their whole coverage of the last 5 years of Corbynism and Brexit has been a disaster, her strategy of commissioning pieces from not very good but gobby glorified bloggers has damaged the paper's reputation significantly. Plus obviously there is the whole Seumas Milne issue.

Regretfully, VERY regretfully, I have to agree.

On International Women's Day one of their young female writers tweeted happy International Women's Day to transwomen only.

Why would someone do that, why? As I'm going from memory and can't be 100 per cent accurate which young woman this was I won't name her. But it was obviously intended to give the finger to women. Is that what the Guardian is now? Maybe they're terrified of being petitioned the way Suzanne Moore was for writing a thoughtful piece about gender.

I despair. I used to support it. I can't now. I just can't.