Graun policy emerging: compromise, revenge or blander cooking contests?

After events have turned out badly, the press can often be caught searching round for a 'line' to reassure themselves while carrying on with business as usual. The Graun may be at that stage today

M Kettle may be in the forefront of trying to disavow Graun partisanship now it looks likely to have failed to deliver Remain, Revoke, PV, CV, GNU or anything else it has been demanding. Predicting (hoping for) another hung Parliament, Kettle sees a chance for much nicer politics after all. The sound of hooves from a herd of GNU might just be detectable in the background:

Like it or not, a readiness to compromise remains the greatest skill in modern politics. The next generation of politicians – and of media – need to get used to that, whatever happens on 12 December.

E Broakes doesn't want to be nice just yet though, and revives the device of equating Johnson and Trump (there may be a third term in the analogy -- Satan?):

Both men are so desperate to be liked that a chorus of disapproval is sometimes the most appropriate response 

The strength of his [Johnson's] need, combined with the jokey tone he deploys to service it, sets up his critics – however reasonable and fair-minded – to long for the kind of closure that only public humiliation can fulfil.

The way he has gone for cheap gags his entire career – Muslim women as “letter boxes”, which for scorn is on a par with Trump’s mockery of a disabled reporter [only to a Grduanista, surely?] – is indecent in a way that calls for indecency in response.

watching Trump forced to confront his own unpopularity [after being booed at a baseball match] and absorb some of the ugliness he himself has created was, for a brief moment, like a revenge fantasy made real, one in which – Johnson, take note – making someone feel bad was the ultimate political gesture.

Not very Guadrian I'd have thought. Close to advocating abuse, bullying, trolling and shaming, surely? Broakes should read the item warning of the damaging effects of intrusive nastiness in Bake-Off (allegedly -- never watch it myself). Reporting Bake Off.. as the prominent story in the Culture Section is another example of world-class reporting in the Graun these days as they struggle to preserve their own very high standards:

The allure of Bake Off has always been the illusion that it is a quaint little show, when actually it is an anxiety-driven thrill ride watching people lose it while trying to add a marzipan layer to their Battenburg. This series, however, bakers have been reduced to tears four times during a technical, including in the final, where Steph and Alice both buckled under the pressure.