Moments in a minor key

By Dcred

THE GUARDIAN

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper. It is most popular with a strange mixture of people who earn over 50k a year and own more Apple products than most poor people have ever seen and angry Trotskyites who shout through megaphones in mockney accents. This disparate constituency is united by a loathing of "the rightwings" (historically the British Tory Party, Fascists and the established church; Guardian readers are generally stereotyped as thinking that they run the country, as opposed to Telegraph readers who think they do run the country, Times readers, who actually do run the country, Financial Times readers who own the country, Daily Mail readers who are married to the people who run the country, Morning Star readers who think the country should be run by another country and Daily Express readers who think it already is. Sun readers don't care who runs the country as long as she's got big tits. 
Guardian readers generally pretend to be outsiders battling an inherently-rightwing system even though many of them are high-up in business, the media or even government. This form of double-think is known as "Guardianista syndrome": wanting to be seen to be battling the establishment whilst actually being that establishment yourself (*and personally benefiting from it).

Originally called the "The By 'eck it's grim up t'North 'ere in Manchester Guardian" it has since moved its offices down to London where its regular editorial staff reside permanently. This has led to most Guardian writers not realising that there is a difference between "London" and "the rest of the United Kingdom".

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