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How the Guardian makes the news, then reports the news
A nimble two-step from The Guardian: 1. Polly Toynbee sends tweet encouraging all and sundry to take part in an open-access online poll being run by the BMJ. 2. The Guardian reports result of said BMJ poll. Then only thing missing, alas, is: 3. The Guardian then realises that reporting a voodoo poll which its [...]
VIDEO: Paddy Ashdown, Shirley Williams and Julian Glover on the Liberal Democrats, recession and The Guardian
You can now watch again in full one of the best fringe meetings from the party conference, which saw Paddy Ashdown, Shirley Williams and the then Guardian editorial writer Julian Glover launch a new history of the party and its predecessors, Peace, Reform and Liberation.* Julian Glover gave a very funny speech about his newspaper’s [...]
Oh look, bedrooms contain only blonde women
Clichéd, old-fashioned use of female blondes to advertise bedroom products? Not surprising. That it should be The Guardian perpetuating the sexist shopping clichés? Less impressive. Though given the paper’s vision of only women doing cleaning or its obsession with photos of Sienna Miller, not too surprising either.
Dear Alan Rusbridger: I’m a man, am I allowed to clean?
Dear Alan Rusbridger, I was going to buy a product from the Cleaning and Laundry products part of The Guardian’s online shop. But then I noticed that every identifiable person in photos in that section is a woman. So could you tell me, are men allowed to buy household cleaning and laundry products too? Thank [...]
Am I Alone in Thinking…? Unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph
Ian Hollingshead’s collection of unpublished letters to the Daily Telegraph, Am I Alone in Thinking…? is a great little collection of amusing or strange letters which did not make it into the paper’s printed edition. It is a bit pricey at the nominal cover price for a short book with large font and acres of white [...]
A letter to the Guardian
Sir, Your editorial starts off calling for the Liberal Democrats to have a distinctive voice over the riots. It goes on to give the party two specific pieces of advice, both of which are to agree with Ed Miliband more often. Is this a case of the first paragraph not knowing what the last paragraph is [...]
Could you edit The Guardian? Take a simple test
Here’s a simple test to see if you too have what it takes to edit The Guardian. a. You have an interview lined up with a Treasury minister. b. You have a journalist who happily admits they don’t understand the difference between a cyclical and structural deficit. Do you say: 1. “Pah, so what? It’s [...]
My letter to The Guardian, unpublished
Sir,
I noticed that around half the recent stories about phone hacking on the Guardian website with photos feature a photograph of Sienna Miller. Does she make up around half of all the people whose phones were hacked?
Yours etc.
Charles Kennedy to join Ed Miliband on a pro-electoral reform platform
It’s hardly surprising that Charles Kennedy and Ed Miliband would be appearing together to promote electoral reform. Kennedy has long been a supporter of electoral reform and by virtue of not being in government is seen by many in Labour as an easier figure to campaign alongside (even though one of Kennedy’s first acts on [...]
My letter in today's Guardian: before and after
Here’s the letter I wrote to The Guardian, a slightly shortened version of which appears in today’s paper: Your editorial about the importance of gritting pavements (1st December) is a little unfair to the government. It is true that the White Paper on public health does not mention the issue, but the government has just [...]
