Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-27-2008

[andrewducker]

• More tea needed!
  Speaking from his hotel room, a British businessman, who did not want to be named for security reasons, told BBC News he had pushed the furniture against the door for protection. He said he had heard gunshots, blasts and people running along the corridors throughout the night. "It's not the most pleasant of experiences," he said. "I suppose it's a question of British stiff upper lip."
  (tags: Britishness Mumbai terrorism)
• Girls prefer the arts, boys prefer science
  Exactly the kind of article that should lead to bad journalists being rounded up and shot.
  (tags: journalism sexism)

Comments

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

I've always understood the point of being a Guardian reader (as opposed to being a Telegraph or Scotsman reader or some other such wanker) is that we can take what we read and apply our own judgment. Michelle Hanson is a grumpy old woman G2 columnist who, by dint of having once been a schoolteacher, gets to blog informally on the education website. The key word being "informally". Obviously it's bollocks, but its bollocks that's obvious bollocks.

I don't take everything I read I the Guardian as being true. It's not meant to be. It's an insult to proper Guardian readers to suggest that we can't make the distinction. If you want to read the Independent or Times or whatever, go read the Independent or Times or Whatever.

[marrog.livejournal.com]

My reason for reading the Guardian was always that, for the most part, Guardian writers felt the same way about the world I did. Increasingly in recent years my political and social views have matured and grown subtler and more nuanced, and the Guardian has looked more and more like an angry, precocious twenty year old to whom someone made the mistake of handing a typewriter.

I am no longer an angry, precocious twenty year old. I have outgrown the Guardian. This saddens me, but I feel it's something I have to come to terms with.

I read the Independent the other day. It felt a little like a rite of passage.

Edit: I should add that I still enjoy the Guardian in a good writing, interesting columns kind of way. I just don't really regard it as a newspaper any more. More of a sort of slightly higher-brow magazine that gossips about politicians and the economy instead of celebrities' boob jobs. Mostly.

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

Give yourself another ten years and you'll be reading the Daily Mail and voting Conservative . . .

[marrog.livejournal.com]

Well, you know what Winston said.

[fannymagnate.livejournal.com]

"One may dislike Hitler's system and yet admire his patriotic achievement. If our country were defeated, I hope we should find a champion as admirable to restore our courage and lead us back to our place among the nations." (1937)

Go on tell me!

[marrog.livejournal.com]

*Grins*

I meant the one about about young men who aren't liberal having no heart, and old men who aren't conservatives having no brain.

Although I guess as a chick I get to do as I please...

(But I'll never read the Daily Mail)

[andrewducker]

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Not actually Churchill: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Misattributed

[marrog.livejournal.com]

I wondered as I posted it whether it was actually Churchill, but as it was quite late I couldn't be bothered checking.

[andrewducker]

"If you're not a liberal when you're 25, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 35, you have no brain."

Not actually Churchill: http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Winston_Churchill#Misattributed

(I disagree, of course.)