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SIMON LINCOLN READER: Fourth Estate suffers thanks to The Guardian’s hypocrisy
The Guardian is preoccupied with stuffing candy floss inside the heads of its readers
The Guardian is the highest climber on my list of things I find rubbish, so I am delighted to tell you about a howler it made in 2017. In the headline of yet another shameless piece authored by yet another self-righteous north Londoner condemning the democratic referendum of 2016, the words: "CONTRIBUTOR NAMY." It is human to make an editing error, but for an English newspaper to fist the spelling of "name" like that was almost too much for me. Only the week before I was in a wine bar when I overheard one of their senior writers complaining about Uber flying over donkey-cart drivers from Kabul and dumping them in Toyotas in central London. I was tempted to throw a coaster at the jerk, but objecting to any (perceived) left-winger here nowadays results in a hate crime charge. The Guardian is edited by a woman called Katherine Viner. She is said to be close to Jeremy Corbyn’s spokesman, Seumas Milne — a wealthy trustafarian who cheats on his wife and loves contemporary Venezuelan econo...
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