Wot no Grauniad?

[An_Inspector_Calls]

Complete tosh - just shows he doesn't read it. Tt has been used for decades by Britain's voluntary sector too, not all of them, nor the local authorities in question, being 'lefty' at all

Didn't the Eye have a regular slot in which they reported the latest Gaurdian job idiocy from one of the councils? I seem to recall they were mainly London councils, and Labour.

[french frank]

I believe The Telegraph is the only one of the 'qualities' that does make a profit - The Times and S. Times certainly don't, nor The Indy/IoS.

[amateur51]

Didn't the Eye have a regular slot in which they reported the latest Gaurdian job idiocy from one of the councils? I seem to recall they were mainly London councils, and Labour.

As a regular reader of Guardian job ads since the mid-1970s to 2004, I can tell you that it was a broad sweep and it also included Government departments' tenders for work

[amateur51]

I believe The Telegraph is the only one of the 'qualities' that does make a profit - The Times and S. Times certainly don't, nor The Indy/IoS.

Unworthy thought - does this have anything to do with the Barclay brothers' tax status, perchance?

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

leftie? wot do you mean?

[Flosshilde]

I call foul on this 'I am woman, here me roar!' knee-jerk use of "misogynist". What's misogynistic about it? Ferretfancy specifically refers to the women's pages of The Guardian, which, like R4's Woman's Hour, can seem gynocentric and certainly excessively explicit regarding female genital cosmetic surgery, Naomi Woolfe's new book, Vagina, et al.

Whatever next, Merkin of the Month?

The Guardian gave up 'women's pages' some time ago.

[ahinton]

I live in an area infested with comfortably off young couples, mostly two car families with the second car used to convey the awful kids to school or take the labradors to the park. These are people in which the governing principle of life is anxiety. They worry about their houses, the local schools, their SUVs, parking etc. etc. without for one moment considering their good fortune, and I'm sorry to say that many of them read the Guardian.

Or, to interpret with the benefit of reason and sanguinity, "I live is an area in which there are a number of young couples, most of which own two cars and who worry about a number of issues including their housing, local education, vehicles, parking, etc. etc. although, of course, there are others who have rather more issues about which to worry; I cannot say with absolute certainty how many of them read the Guardian". What in principle is wrong with couple owning two cars, especially when many of them need these in order to go to work, do shopping and, yes, transport their children to school? - and what is wrong in principle with their worrying about those issues that you claim that they worry about?

[ahinton]

Are you absolutely certain that they pay NO tax at all as distinct from far less than they would pay if UK domiciled? Anyway, why should one's domiciliary arrangements be assumed of themselves to preclude any "interest in UK tax issues"?

[Flosshilde]

leftie? wot do you mean?

When I first read the headline I thought it said 'Gingham style', & had visions of Boris dressed as Dorothy

http://www.partique.com.au/WebRoot/ntdb3/Shops/papa9117/4D8D/2263/BE74/5D82/C0DD/C0A8/F1B4/4949/Sexy_0020_Dorothy_0020_Female_0020_Adult_0020_Costume.jpg

[Ferretfancy]

Draco
No misogyny intended, I assure you, it's just that the women's pages get very clinical, whereas we don't usually get much stuff about men's wobbly bits. As for not knowing the paper well, I've been enjoying it for fifty years, but that does not preclude my right to snipe occasionally.

[MrGongGong]

I'm wondering when was the last time that our academic friend actually READ the Guardian ?
or is it more a case of "knowing" that it's a pile of "lefty" propaganda in the same way that some folk seem to be able to work out that people with 2 cars, children and pesto in the fridge MUST be Guardian readers ?

[jayne lee wilson]

I've been a reader for many years, partly because the Guardian has always had the best writers although sometimes the insufferable middle class attitudes get on my wick. I live in an area infested with comfortably off young couples, mostly two car families with the second car used to convey the awful kids to school or take the labradors to the park. These are people in which the governing principle of life is anxiety. They worry about their houses, the local schools, their SUVs, parking etc. etc. without for one moment considering their good fortune, and I'm sorry to say that many of them read the Guardian.

Still, after reading the Guardian for three years you might become a reasonable cook, appreciate the films of Peter Greenaway, and after careful study of the women's pages get a respectable degree in gynaecology.

Can't breathe for the sexist smoke in the gentlemens' club.
I'm off, I need air...

[Flosshilde]

Draco
No misogyny intended, I assure you, it's just that the women's pages get very clinical, whereas we don't usually get much stuff about men's wobbly bits. As for not knowing the paper well, I've been enjoying it for fifty years, but that does not preclude my right to snipe occasionally.

Can you link to recent articles about women's sexual organs? I read it regularly but not every day, so I might have missed some recently. But it would be strange if they were published only on the days I happen not to read the paper.

[MrGongGong]

Can you link to recent articles about women's sexual organs? I read it regularly but not every day, so I might have missed some recently. But it would be strange if they were published only on the days I happen not to read the paper.

[Anna]

I suspect the references to womens' sexual organs in The Guardian may be merely these pages about women?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/women