Goodbye Guardian

Last week The Guardian proudly announced that it was leaving Elon Musk's X, citing far-right conspiracy theories and racism, because of course The Guardian would never stoop to such lows, such as publishing a cartoon of Priti Patel as a fat cow or portraying Jewish figures with enlarged noses.

Instead, The Guardian is re-focusing its social media presence on Bluesky. (X for those who have a mental health crisis every time an opposing viewpoint crosses their path.) A quick search for the term "echo chamber" on the platform brings up all the predictable tropes of the censorious left, from "we're not an echo chamber, it's just some views are not worth considering" to "we are an echo chamber, but an anti-fascist echo chamber so that's OK." All naturally interspersed with references to those remaining on X as being Nazis. A veritable haven of respectful fun and joy then.

In the paper's dying days on X, the Guardian labelled the Telegraph's Allison Pearson (the journalist who has been enjoying visits from the police service for a "non-crime hate incident") a racist, and promptly re-tweeted a supposed post of hers. Unfortunately, the post in question was written by another Allison Pearson altogether. This exposition of journalistic excellence from the same publication that listed "misinformation" amongst its reasons for leaving X.

While The Guardian may be happy to see the back of X and its culture of free expression, we'll miss them. They gave us a chuckle.

Alex Zychowski - Wessex Coordinator