Tanya Gold is disgusted with the success of…glitzy restaurants? Really? What is grotesque about such places, beyond library-themed chic and the contrast with the important food anxieties of the age (obesity, rising prices and the return of malnutrition), is the…
Tag: Slack journalism
And Just So You Can Be Sure To Be Offended…
…we’ll reprint every one! News Shopper readers have reacted after a series of offensive tweets and social media comments followed the death of a woman hit by a train in Petts Wood yesterday. She wasn’t ‘hit by a train’ in…
Hey, If You’ve Nothing To Hide…
The National Union of Students is unhappy that we aren’t more ‘welcoming’ to foreign students, apparently: Figures show PhD students are most likely to feel unwelcome (65.8 per cent) with those from Japan (64.5 per cent), Nigeria (62.8 per cent)…
Maybe You Should Have Checked Out A Book On Property Rights?
An Oxford college has been accused of cultural vandalism after a pop-up library was allegedly destroyed and thousands of donated books left strewn in the street. Well, if they were all copies of ’50 Shades Of Grey’, no harm done……
Why, Tanya? Because Godwin, Obviously…
Tanya Gold, on the Roma: We know that some starved in ghettos alongside Jews; that some were gassed in death camps; that Anne Frank saw some Gypsy girls being herded to the gas chambers, and cried; that more, including very…
I Don’t Know Who’s More Insane…
…the patients or the doctor who has suggested this: The NHS should consider paying patients with severe mental illness to take their medication, a leading expert has said, after a study showed that offering “modest financial incentives” significantly improved adherence…
Yes, Dawn, Somehow It’s All The Fault Of The Tories…
Dawn Foster is enraged. Knocking down a monument to democracy and universal suffrage to build an identikit shopping centre is a plotline you’d invent if you wanted to satirise Britain under the coalition. Yet this is exactly what has happened in…
Not Really Thought This Through, Have They?
Londoners will now be able to report crimes at the touch of a button, as a new crime-fighting smartphone app is launched by an independent charity. Self Evident is a free app, available for Apple’s IOS and Google’s Android operating…
The Reality Of Food Banks – Who Are They Really Supporting?
The shocking levels of food poverty in the region has prompted the Lancashire Telegraph to launch a campaign calling on readers to back local foodbanks. Pony up some groceries for the poor folks, shoppers! They fall into three categories, apparently.…
Not The Usual Sort Of ‘Extremists’..?
Police are investigating an attack on a political leader and journalist connected with the Bangladesh ruling party who was beaten up in a street attack in London’s East End after being targeted by extremists. Ah. The usual suspects? Political and…
Hey, ‘Distressing’ Is The New Magic Word..
Ben Gerrard’s condition forces him to make sudden involuntary movements and to blurt out words without warning. He has Tourettes. But after suffering a bout of tics in Aird and Co tool shop in Bond Street, Brighton, on Wednesday afternoon,…
Accidental Nail/Head Interface In The ‘Guardian’…
…via Aditya Chakrabortty: It’s a good question. Don’t surveys repeatedly show Sweden as one of the happiest countries (certainly a damn sight cheerier than Britain)? Isn’t it famous for its equality, its warm welcome to immigrants? Whatever happened to Stockholm,…
But…I Thought This Was Supposed To Usher In A ‘Fairer’ Society?
Emma G Keller on women in high places: Marissa Mayer is clearly an all-or-nothing person, used to working on her terms. She is a talented woman, and we all appreciate daily what she did at Google. She seems to be having…
How To Shift The Emphasis: A Masterclass By Professor Mary Beard
We all remember how Prof Mary Beard got her arse handed to her on live TV at ‘Question Time’, don’t we? Well. good. Because the narrative has shifted, she’s wrapped herself in the cloak of outraged womanhood and declared that…
I’m Pretty Sure It Serves The Same Function…
The usual whining in the ‘Guardian’ about Muslims being ‘disadvantaged’ in the workplace throws up this rather odd little gem: Others encounter difficulties within the workplace itself, where requests for minor adaptations are met with resistance. Reema, a 34-year-old obstetrician,…