The Guardian’s standards continue to amaze

The Guardian has retracted one of the allegations it made about me in its strangely humour-free Pass Notes section on Monday. They said that I had described a footballer as a ‘spearchucking African’, whereas I was quoting what had allegedly been said about the footballer by somebody else and using that quote to justify the black footballer’s consequent aggressive reaction.

So, they put in a retraction today, although devoid of an apology. I might work through the rest of the Pass Notes and get them to retract most of the rest.

What they should really do is reprint their headline from earlier in the week on every page, every day, just to let people know about the standards to which they cleave:

Hat-tip: Political Scrapbook