The Guardian has become somewhat of a bête-noire at Shouting at Cows towers, after its flagrant hypocrisy, pointless lifestyle tit-bits and it being awash with nepotism and mate’s favours saw it become merely a horrible waste of trees. The latest Guardian article to make us crush grapes left, right and centre, was a piece entitled 'The 8 types of student’; nothing more than a crass generalisation about how all students are, essentially, bit part characters from The Young Ones. Now we love a baseless jab as much as the next person, but during a time of an utterly bleak outlook for students with over a million young people unemployed, 1 in 5 graduates out of work and rising tuition fees, perhaps ...

  I have had a problem with The Guardian for a long time. Most of it started during the tax evasion scandals of recent years. The Guardian, acting as a sort of white knight against evil corporations, ran a number of stories on the subject; most famously a front page report about Barclays Bank's flagrant and unremitting tax evasion. However, it neglected to mention how The Guardian had not paid a penny of tax on a £307M payout to their shareholders, by filtering money out the country through a GMG subsidiary in the Cayman islands. Now there are many things I hate. Courgette, for example. Paul T Anderson’s film ‘Magnolia’. But there is nothing I hate more than hypocrisy. If you don’t ...