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The insufferable rise of the sportswriter bore

26 November 2024

1:45 AM

26 November 2024

1:45 AM

Can someone check on Guardian sportswriter Jonathan Liew? It would appear he is not taking events in the Middle East terribly well, and one suspects the election of Donald Trump hasn’t helped, either.

I’ve noticed it for a while now, this trend of using the back pages – traditionally the fun pages – to foist desperate and uninformed sixth form bilge onto readers

‘I’ve been thinking a lot about hopelessness recently.

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