How bad the journalism at the Guardian has become. I know Malcolm Muggeridge worked for The Guardian in the thirties. Reporting from Soviet Russia telling of the communist experiment there. That was in the thirties. Now we have in 2021-
There is a paywall I’m afraid. But it’s not so much the subject matter. Its how they’ve done it-which is to to give 2 friends the opportunity to basically show their old snaps, where they hung out and turn it into history. In this case something they’ve called black queer history.
Yes there he is an old snap with his friend. It looks like a snap you’d take just before you went out in a Saturday night. But in this case it ‘around the time’ when black queers were coming out. And they were off to some ‘legendary’ nightclub that catered for them..
Then his ‘report’ I suppose you’d call it reveals that a lot of the gay bars frequented by blacks back then were owned by white homosexual men. But then the ‘legendary’ (can’t remember the name of the club) owned by a black queer was opened. And the black queers felt more comfortable there
You’d have to read the bullshit but I think as I say there’s a pay wall.
Anyhow more generally this bigging up your life to be part of ‘history’ I think needs calling out. What comes to mind are bands in my home town who got really famous…er…in my hometown.
On their websites (names made up) it says– It all started when Dave and Rob accidentally bumped into each other in The Dove Inn. They had known each other at school. They found out that they had a great love for The Cure (or some other band) and decided there and then to play together. That was the beginning.
Then they met Craig the drummer and he ‘introduced’ to his mate Alan who was greatly influenced by Motorhead and he brought that ,(some muso waffle about the ‘new wave’ and how they were a part of it() and they developed their sound.
Oh that first gig who would have known that that was just the beginning ….and so on and so on.
But wait I know you lot. Craig wasn’t ‘introduced’ to you he fell over you in the pub drunk. How do I know? I was there! .
You only played in town. It wasn’t anything great or historical (even for the town)
Maybe I’m being a bit too hard. Everyone likes to put their best face forward as it were
Really what I’m getting is the idea ‘we’re all celebrities now’.I might start my own. That was a famous day for me John as and Steve when we were photographed posing with our putters for The Barnsley Chronicle! That was a famous day when we were 8 years old in the history of our gang. (thats story’s true, the names as well)
As I get old I am becoming more and detached from the world. I can say say honestly I am happy to have lived and died a nonentity. I didn’t live a life of historical importance. Nothing truly out of the ordinary happened to me.
Nominated by: Miles Plastic




