What is it with The Guardian??

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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

Middle aged women shouldn't have long hair !!!!! WTAF
That sounds like a bollocks of an article,....... tosses long grey hair over shoulder 😁

God Ryan Gilbey sounds a right gormless prick in this piece. I have known people who worked at the Guardian and they would be much more on the Hadley Freeman end of the reality spectrum. They worked on actual journalism though; the arts section might be more susceptible to gender bollocks

I bet all these arseholes have watched Roman Polanski films. I bet they love him.

Yup re The Crucible- all he needed to say was "I denounce Goody Rowling" and the interview could have moved on.

I hope in years to come people ask anyone who worked for the Guardian "how do you sleep at night knowing you worked for a paper that promoted childhood transition and demonised those who asked questions about this treatment?" or "how do you sleep at night knowing the organisation you worked for promoted children being sterilised and mentally harmed?"

What a rank little oppressor that ‘journalist’ is. It was patently clear that the actor liked JK, understood it was a contentious issue, didn’t want to engage in the non/debate debate, has too much integrity to condemn JK just because he’s being told he should, and shut the exchange down.

The Nigel Farage thing was pathetic. Desperate and mindless of the writer and merely a carrier for his misogyny.

Yep I was thinking this too.

And how many Mary Warrens have we seen, those who dared speak up then found themselves so ostracised and isolated that they belted back to the “The birds are attacking us” side?

The Crucible is my favourite play but by Jove, it’s near the knuckle these days. I wonder what Miller would have made of all this?

A more useful thought experiment would be what if Nigel Farage stood up and declared “trans women are women!” It would be hilarious watching the likes of Gilbey and the rest of the Guardian struggle to cope with how to respond.

”Oh my! We agree with Farage about something? Does not compute.” [implodes]

I thought Tom Burke played the idiot journalist very well. And it is difficult to see how the idiot journalist could have written a sensible article without mentioning the Musketeers…..

Hilarious. I'd love to see it. Come on Nigel, step up, just for us.

Yeah, me too.

I think imaginably Farage could. Jones not so much.

I thought the most interesting thing was about that segment was that he said he'd be uncomfortable to work for Lars VT.

Yes, we are approaching the Sun territory, aka no one in Liverpool will touch it with a barge pole after the Hillsborough travesty. All people living in the real world should just laugh when refusing a Guardian interview and then share this with social media.

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

Quite probably

it is noticeable that Talcum has had noting to say at all about either WPATH or Case (unless I missed it) I realise his current crush is cheerleading for Hamas but even so-perhaps he might be considering a bit of ferret action?

Cass (stupid auto-carrot)

I have a lot of time for Marina Hyde, she's a great writer, but I have no idea why she continues to stay at The Graun ( actually I do, I suspect she is on £££), when other women like Hadley Freeman have jumped ship.

I imagine the response to the first trans MP (Jamie Wallis) was.something like this. He doesn't seem to turn up to any of the debates and I never hear other TWAW MPs standing up for him.

Not knowing what the interview itself actually covered, and what was edited out, I was baffled by the fact the interviewer devoted a large amount of waffle to Tom Burke's career progression, without even mentioning that he was in the Musketeers - as joint-lead in a DBC production that ran for 3 years and had serious worldwide sales. As far as I know, that was his first lead in a mainstream production, so something of a break-out role, surely?

But then 1/3 of the article is trying to persuade him to bash JKR, so maybe Musketeers had to be edited out to make way for that. (insert massive eye roll here...)