What is it with The Guardian??

[Theeyeballsinthesky]

I mean I know it’s a bit of a rhetorical question but ffs the interviewer really pushes Tom Burke on JKR who to his credit handles it well but they really really hate her don’t they? https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/may/17/i-did-a-lot-of-yelling-tom-burke-on-socks-controversy-and-mad-max

I don't, but they do.

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!”

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

@RebelliousCow

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

No chocolate for you. 🐪

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.

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'.

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.

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.

Here you go…

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

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.

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 say it as it is.

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.

Ah, but you say that safe in the knowledge that neither will ever happen!

Fair.
Ok, I still read Charles Dickens, even though I hear he was a bit of a shit.

I was going to say much the same thing (and what @SinnerBoy said too!) And why shouldn't a professional actor act in either one? There's such a thing as professionalism.

It might make sense to choose not to work with someone who I knew could be abusing other people while I was working with them, especially vulnerable people or other people working for them or in my profession. That's also professionalism.

But "people don't like them on Twitter" is hardly a reason not to work with someone.

(My old aunt used to say "if your uncle had tits he'd be your auntie" ... which is no longer scientifically true.)

Am I right in thinking LOJ has written a fiction book before or was that my fever dream?

you must be getting confused between that and the weekly fantasy articles he churns out for the Graun.