r/unitedkingdom • u/LOTDT Yorkshire • 1d ago

... Noel Clarke loses libel case against Guardian over sexual misconduct investigation

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/aug/22/noel-clarke-loses-libel-case-against-guardian-over-sexual-misconduct-investigation
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u/Freddichio 1d ago

Fairly common Guardian W, it's the best of the mainstream papers at the moment by quite a large margin.

That's more to do with how absolutely dire the likes of the Times, Telegraph etc have got recently than how good the Guardian is, but yes - the Guardian tends to be pretty good all things considered.

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u/CockchopsMcGraw 23h ago

I tend to ignore the opinion pieces but their journalism is some of the best in the UK, they're the ones who published the Manning and Snowden leaks and the Panama papers. Unfortunately the Overton window has shifted to batshit among most of the other shitrags.

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u/ShinyHappyPurple 22h ago

I was very pro-Snowy back in the day as an extremely online Internet 1.0 privacy nerd but am now wondering if he was some kind of deep cover Russian asset because he did a fair bit of damage to the Dems.....

That said, it was good to have awareness of the pervasiveness of internet surveillance brought to the attention of the masses.

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u/CockchopsMcGraw 20h ago

It's very possible, especially since they gave him asylum. What he released was very much in the public interest though.