The Guardian Guide - slightly biased review....

'The Guide' is part of the Guardian's Saturday package, a combination of editorial and listings that resembles a pared down 'Time Out'.

Now, I have to declare an interest here. I like the Guardian, despite it's not very good Sports coverage and it's willfully Northern outlook, I can get past the slightly wet Liberalism and sometimes unrealistic worldview to find something good to read.

And I usually love 'The Guide'.

So why so vexxed young master 2-bob?

Well, allow me to tell you.

In the last few weeks, there has been less of the good stuff, no Charlie Brooker, and far too much of the odious little scrote who is Pete Cashmore.

Pete who? You may well ask, well a P.Cashmore used to be employed by 'Nuts' magazine, and I believe ran the 'Nuts' website. This is interesting because as far as i can see the sole purpose of the magazine's website is to solicit vulnerable young ladies with self esteem issues into posting pictures of themselves with as few clothes on as possible, on the premise that this may get them a modeling contract with the magazine, for the pleasure of the social inadequates who inhabit the site. Quite how this fits with the oft trumpeted values of The Guardian I'm not sure.

Two things I do know for sure though, are that our Pete doesn't really like anyone questioning his authority, when I asked quite reasonably if he thought that the website was appropriate and whether he thought it exploitative, he banned me from the site. The other thing is that Cashmore is nowhere near as funny as he seems to think he is, in fact I've had funnier rectal prolapses than that.

So there we have it, formerly well written and amusing magazine now unfortunately in the thrall of one of a man entirely deluded about his comic abilities, whose Ego rules his word processor, and who it seems to me is far more suited to his former life of pimping delusional young women to the internet's dregs.