Cracking stuff at Guardian Towers, where CiF have been running a series of pieces to mark the close of the decade under the rubric "I've changed my mind about...". Each article cleaves to the same basic formula: "I used to believe in x, but now I believe y, for reasons z1, z2, z3" and so on. This being the Guardian, of course, the series provides rich comedy on a number of levels. So I've develope...

This morning's Guardian carries an interview with Samir Kuntar (Samir Qantar), abridged from the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv. In presenting the piece the Guardian says that he is...... reviled as a child-murdering monster in Israel...Given these recent posts of mine, I...

Vanessa Neumann, a self-confessed product of Venezuela's maligned "oligarchy", writes to The Guardian letters with some facts to prove Chavez is the dictatorial monster The Guardian seems determined to portray him as. In the comments section, though, it would appear Ms Neumann (and The Guardian) have been rumbled.... I live in the US and read The Guardian because I cannot stand the biased US ...

Guardian has a Miliband agenda Bob Marshall-Andrews, though an unreconstructed maverick, writes a very entertaining blog, which everyone should read just to cheer themselves up in the morning. Anyway here he is on the subject of writing for the Guardian: "Just had an article urging Brown to go for growth turned down by the Guardian All my articles are turned down by the Guardian but...

Why has The Guardian turn itself into the tame instrument of Arthur Scargill’s rehabilitation? In the first week in March - the twenty fifth anniversary of the start of Scargill’s 1984-5 miners strike - it carried two pages by Arthur about how he was right and everyone else was wrong; another big piece by his tame acolyte Seumas (known to fellow Guardian journos as "Shameless") Milne, ...

Hallelujah! It had to happen eventually: the Guardian is enraged! by a show of support for someone they call a 'convicted criminal'. Just to spell it out to the Guardian, Shields may indeed have been convicted, but a 'criminal'? Didn't the Guardian used to be in favour of actual trials? Still, let's check the scorecard here, guy captured by US troops on Afghan battlefield and sent to Gitmo: obviou...

What on earth was the Guardian doing accepting an advert (placed by the GLA) for a researcher for the BNP? I have no doubt that Guardian executives will justify their decision to on the grounds of liberty and free speech but it is disappointing nonetheless. Or am I over-reacting? Was their decision based upon principle or profit? I have always thought that the Guardian was keen on promoting good c...

Polly's new book. 11.99 from The Guardian. 8.57 from Amazon.co.uk. So, what's it like to be ripped off by a tax dodging, loss making charity that was deliberately set up to avoid inheritance tax then anyway? OK, OK, super saver delivery on orders over 15….

What on earth was the Guardian doing accepting an advert (placed by the GLA) for a researcher for the BNP? I have no doubt that Guardian executives will justify their decision to on the grounds of liberty and free speech but it is disappointing nonetheless. Or am I over-reacting? Is their decision based upon principle or profit? I have always thought that the Guardian was keen on  promoting good c...

Headline to Guardian leader: Economy: Down, down, deeper and down So, err, where does that come from? Ahhhh, yes….. The Guardian, hip and with it as ever. Cultural references to Status Quo circa 1975. Well, that was when the UK was at its most equal ever, wasn’t it?