The Guardian feels like the last good normal newspaper at this point. Great book and movie reviews, normal detailed circa 2005 coverage, and none of the NYT’s wierd if we didn’t break the story we won’t talk about it.
Yes the Guardian hits all the bases, and without sounding too self-satisfied about it.
self-satisfied is pretty much the official editorial style of the guardian
Isn't it the norm for online media ? But i meant, their general reportage does not feel like claims to be a Single Source of Truth.
The reporting is good. It's more the opinion pieces that are notorious for giving off "smug leftie liberal intellectual" vibes.
I'd argue somewhat less so recently. my gripe with the guardian is that like many left-wing publications and sources recently, they've been far too willing to engage in nothing-y culture nonsense and nowhere near willing enough to engage in the class and wealth inequality issues that are plaguing us nowadays. it has felt a little bit too aimed at the comfortable upper middle classes for a good while now (if it ever wasn't)
Are you saying a focus on racial politics and feminism, and less on socialism/class politics? I think that is a wider Leftist trend in the last 10-15 years.
The Guardian has decent reporting but it also has some terribly embarrassing content. To wit:
"In Dark Laboratory, her groundbreaking new book, Goffe argues that it was the colonisation of the Americas by Christopher Columbus that set off the chain of events that has led us to where we stand today, on the precipice of global catastrophe.
Climate breakdown, she says, is the mutant offspring of European scientific racism and colonialism, conceived in the suffering millions of Africans, Asians and Indigenous Americans endured at the altar of capital accumulation.
The climate crisis is, put simply, also a racial crisis, and it is only once we come to terms with this, Goffe says, and what it means for the ways we relate to the world and each other today, that we can hope to find a solution." From https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/mar/28/dark-laboratory...
I don't like the language and method of phrasing that she's chosen here, and I think trying to lead it back to Columbus is a bit ridiculous, but she's not really wrong about the climate crisis also somewhat being a racial crisis. it's not the white West that's going to bear the brunt of the damage from climate change, is it?
Do you mean that the reporting is less good recently? Or that the opinion pieces have been less smug leftie intellectual recently?
Either way I take your point. There's been a lot of fodder for right-wing figures to attack the guardian for ignoring or alienating the white working class.
> the last good normal newspaper at this point
I guess "in English" was implied.