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Is hypocrisy built into The Guardian’s DNA?

Stephen Glover
The case against “The Guardian”: muddle, exaggeration, hypocrisy

Not content with holding the title of Britain’s oldest worker, 101-year-old Buster Martin set off from Greenwich Park hoping to become the country’s oldest marathon runner. Mr Martin, a smoker since the age of seven who still turns up three days a week to clean vans in south London, refused to take on any water during the run and instead relied on supporters to provide him with strategically placed pints of bitter.

Jerome Taylor
The 28th London Marathon: It’s that time of Year …

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

George Eliot

Surely the fallout of going bankrupt is enough that we don’t have to kick debtors when they are down by demanding they pay a fortune they can’t afford to officially admit they can’t cope.

Kate Hughes
Best Not To Be Sniffy About Bankruptcy

I was as secretive, indeed I was as furtive as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would have been wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress … I do not feel it is any exaggeration to speak of our secret expedition to Jekyll Island as the occasion of the actual conception of what eventually became the Federal Reserve System.

Frank A. Vanderlip

My assistant Carl is exceptionally good looking - especially when he’s walking through the forest carrying a large format camera with the light coming in from behind him.

Vincent Skoglund
Recipe For Men