Tag Archives: Guardian newspaper

The Ineffable Swede

Posted on Friday 4 October 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The reader’s comments section on the Guardian web site is known as ‘below the line’ (BTL), and lots of weird and wonderful things go on there. This week, though, there was quite a surprise and it revolved around a poster … Continue reading →

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Top notch stuff, Rusbridger

Posted on Tuesday 20 August 2013 by Rob Godfrey

The Guardian Editor, Alan Rusbridger, published a quite extraordinary piece last night. Below the line in the reader comments section I called the article ‘a quite substantial piece of history’. Another commentator described what I’d said as hyperbole, so let … Continue reading →

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We’re all Winston Smiths now

Posted on Tuesday 11 June 2013 by Rob Godfrey

Over this last week, what with various Orwell quotes in newspaper comment sections, I must have read 1984 from cover to cover. On the otherhand, many readers seem to think that the American National Security Agency (NSA) scandal only involves … Continue reading →

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Plutonium is good for you: or, happy astroturfing

Posted on Saturday 12 May 2012 by Rob Godfrey

This week the Guardian published an article (in CIF America) about Fukushima. The article, by Richard Schiffman, went over much the same ground as my recent post about Fukushima (see here). Of course in no time at all the astroturf … Continue reading →

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