Thursday, August 22, 2019
The Life and Times of Justin Trudeau - The Long Read, The Guardian
Justin Trudeau is featured in The Guardian's latest "Long Read." The title - "Justin Trudeau: the rise and fall of a political brand" - has something for everyone, fan and critic alike.
I won't go into the content. Fact is I didn't read it all. I found it pretty tedious. You may think it's terrific.
Just wanted to let you know.
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"I didn't read it all"
thanks for the heads-up. I'll stop at the headline
You have more patience than I, Mound. ;-)
Just to be different I read it, so thanks for the heads-up. My motivation o do so has more to do with seeing what family and friends in the UK get to read, so I wanted to see what the fabled Grauniad actually published on our PM, as compared to the outright horseshit anti-semitic labelling it peddles on Corbyn -- Jonathan Freedland is an utter hypocrite in my view and has been vociferously criticized by several ex-Guardian reporters in great detail: Jonathan Cook and also the offguardian website. Freedland is such a little arsehole of a neoliberal Blairite, and such a great believer in himself as being brilliant, he's probably responsible for a great many thinking Brits being misled all the way down the garden path. In my opinion.
The article on Trudeau is balanced and not in any way unusual to a typical Progblog reader. It rather highlights the orthodoxy around here that the Liberals under JT have been useless in most ways and that he is both highly manipulative and a great liar, And then towards the end ot has a slam on Scheer as a right wing dupe. It was actually not a bad primer for someone who has no idea what goes on in Canada.
However, I'd bet nobody over in the UK read it, because the Brits are wrapped up in themselves and were never interested in Canada while I lived there - we are the great unknown land populated by nobodies to them, mere colonials. The British are more prepared to offer a shoulder for the EU to cry on, because they feel sorry for those poor continentals forced to face the world without Britain by their side. Typical hubris and the sort of thing that the mental midget Boris perpetuates as he wanders around the EU cajoling Germany and France to give the UK a better Brexit deal, while being completely deaf to their responses that he's out of luck, and thus uttering complete BS that they'll come around, blah, blah, blah.
BM
I've read that the Guardian got its start 200 years ago as a chronicle and clarion for change.
The Guardian's treatment of Corbyn has the founders rolling in their graves, I'm sure.
Jr (our very own Tony Blair) is exactly the current publishers 'cup of tea'.
Well, BM, you get the prize for reading the damned thing. I experienced the British understanding of Canada and all things Canadian when I lived in London in the late 60s. Nothing demeaning just a certain lack of curiosity.
I became briefly engaged to an English girl. Her parents and mine became friends. My dad invited them to Ontario for a cross-Canada road trip to British Columbia and then by cruise ship to Alaska. They were unable to accept the breadth of this land and had suspicions my father was just driving around aimlessly.
Good times.
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