Tag: Guardian

Relationships Culture Family Social

Wife Finds She’s Saved as ‘The Management’ in Husband’s Phone

Asha Mwangi

Marriage counsellors warn that affectionate contact names may reveal more about relationships than wedding vows ever could LONDON, ENGLAND. A domestic dispute in South London has raised serious questions about romantic commitment after a married woman discovered that her husband had saved her telephone number under the name “The Management,” despite repeatedly assuring her that their relationship was an equal partnership. The Phone Contact Name That Started a Marital Review…

Relationships Culture Sports

Husband Confesses 17-Year Affair With BBC Sport

Aishwarya Rao

British marriages threatened by new psychological discovery that men would rather check football scores than discuss curtains LONDON, ENGLAND. Marriage counsellors have identified a disturbing new form of romantic betrayal in which husbands devote more attention to their mobile phones than their wives, raising the possibility that millions of British men have been conducting long-term extramarital affairs with football results, weather forecasts and videos of dogs falling into swimming pools.…

Business News

Telegraph Owners Find Journalism Costs Money

Oeko Angebot

German Media Group Announces Ambitious Expansion, Notes Newsrooms Would Be Cheaper Without the News LONDON, ENGLAND | The new owners of The Telegraph are reportedly considering cutting between 50 and 100 newsroom jobs, despite earlier promises to invest in and expand the newspaper. According to The Guardian, German media group Axel Springer has been examining cost reductions following its £575 million acquisition. The proposals are not yet confirmed redundancies. Journalists…

Business Culture Current Absurdities Social

Guardian CEO Pay

Yasmina Khan

Guardian CEO Pay Hits £5 Million, and Somehow That’s Everyone Else’s Fault By Freja Lindholm | London The Guardian has confirmed that their corporate bosses now earn 130 times the salary of the average worker, a statistic so alarming that Guardian executives reportedly required a full afternoon, a chauffeured car and a modest £5.06 million to properly recover from it. According to the newspaper’s own investigation, the median pay package for…

Business Culture Current Absurdities Governance

Relocate Left-Wing Newspaper to Manchester

Judi Online

Andy Burnham’s First Act of Northern Devolution: Relocate Every Left-Wing Newspaper to Manchester Labour declares Britain cannot truly rebalance the economy until every columnist is forced to complain about the rain from a different postcode. Britain’s incoming political revolution has finally identified the nation’s greatest regional inequality. It isn’t investment. It isn’t transport. It isn’t wages. It’s the embarrassing fact that almost every newspaper editorial demanding socialism is still being…

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Biological Laboratories

Charlotte Whitmore

Whitehall Defends Overseas Research Programme By Asking, “Would You Prefer The Germs Remain Unsupervised?” LONDON — British officials found themselves in the unusual position this week of commenting on revelations from the United States that dozens of overseas biolaboratories had received American support, prompting Whitehall to reassure the public that, whatever Britain may or may not be doing, it is undoubtedly being managed through a committee that meets on alternate Thursdays…

News

Plus Social Promises “Free Speech Plus”

Lotte Heidenreich

Plus Social Promises “Free Speech Plus,” Refuses to Clarify What the Plus Covers When Plus Social launched, it did so with the confidence of a startup that has read exactly three history books and skimmed the table of contents. The promise was bold, heroic even: Free Speech Plus. Not just free speech, mind you. That’s old speech. That’s speech with dents in it. This was speech with an upgrade, speech…

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Reading the News Backwards

Lotte Heidenreich

Behavioural research suggests starting with final paragraph reduces anxiety and prepares readers for disappointment Reading the News Backwards People already skim the news; reading it backwards just makes that honest. Most articles end by admitting nothing is resolved. Headlines are designed to frighten you; conclusions are designed to calm advertisers. Reading the last paragraph first saves time and emotional energy. Nobody reaches the end of an article unless they are…