MetaFilter posts tagged with theguardian and UK

"I notice the 'wank' has remained fairly constant."

Artw — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 11:18:04 -0800

"The editor's guidelines are as follows: First, remember the reader, and respect demands that we should not casually use words that are likely to offend. Second, use such words only when absolutely necessary to the facts of a piece, or to portray a character in an article; there is almost never a case in which we need to use a swearword outside direct quotes. Third, the stronger the swearword, the harder we ought to think about using it.Finally, never use asterisks, which are just a cop-out." - Swearing in The Guardian: A chart

The miner and the copper

fearfulsymmetry — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 10:08:23 -0800

It is one of the abiding images of the 1984 coal strike - Guardian photographer Don McPhee's picture of a picketing miner facing up to an officer. But what happened to the two protagonists?

Long Exposure

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 02:50:53 -0800

100 years of Guardian photography. Including Don McPhee and Denis Thorpe.

Politcal Sketch

fearfulsymmetry — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 13:35:25 -0800

"As he walks past I am struck by the way, from his default gloomy expression, he constantly flashes his rictus grin at people, like a doomed and slightly out of control belisha beacon" - The Guardian's cartoonist Steve Bell on drawing Gordon 'Gordy' Brown (video). He's in the process of producing a number of sketchbooks covering the conference season - Liberal Democrat, Labour 1, Labour 2. And he covered this year's Democrat and Republican conventions and also visited 'Manifest Hope' (video), an art exhibition based around images of Barack Obama. Previously.

To be standing by the flag not feeling shameful, racist or partial.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 16:21:08 -0800

Morrissey makes some controversial remarks to the NME. Defensive explanations by the interviewer, attempts at defusing the situation and threats of legal action ensue, as does satire.

bounce wid de wickedness

thirteenkiller — Sun, 16 Oct 2005 14:28:21 -0800

Baron Winston of Hammersmith in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham: Why do we believe in God?

My Drugs Hell

grahamwell — Fri, 23 May 2003 09:31:42 -0800

Elliott could no longer bear the waste. He had six staff and a budget of £3.5m a year. He had a potential client group of 25,000 users ... but at the end of all his work and all that public money, the total number of detox beds he was able to provide was five. The Guardian reports from the front-line of the drugs war. (part two) You may have no interest in Drugs or the UK but read this superb piece for a profile of a bureaucracy in farcical, tragic, total collapse.

salmacis — Wed, 03 Jul 2002 03:52:31 -0800

Have the anti-Euro lobby shot themselves in the foot? A video promoting opposition to the UK joing the Euro has been critisized for including a spoof of Hitler praising the currency. It's attracted publicity for the campaign, all right, but has it unmasked the "No" campaign as anti-Europe "little Englanders"? (Guardian link)

the cuban — Wed, 10 Oct 2001 03:51:05 -0800

Cuban terroists are living in Miami. Should we arrest them?

holgate — Sun, 19 Nov 2000 01:01:10 -0800

"The rules of this game were set by the people, underwritten by the people, financed or not." Yet another opportunity for the British Observer to put the US newspapers to shame, with an closely-argued, even-handed reflection on the fun in Florida. "The system, full of inefficiencies and coagulations, may stink, but it is also a system which belongs to the voters who now complain so shrilly about it."