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On a weekday The Guardian comes with the G2 supplement containing feature articles, columns, television and radio listings and the quick crossword. Other supplements are included during the week are:
The affectionate name the Grauniad for the paper came about because, in the past, it was noted for frequent text mangling, technical typesetting failures and typographical errors, including once misspelling its own name in the 1970s. Although such errors are now less frequent than they used to be, the 'Corrections and clarifications' column can still often provide some amusement. There were even a number of errors in the first issue, perhaps the most notable being a notification that there would soon be some goods sold at atction, instead of auction.
Until the foundation of the Independent, the Guardian was the only serious national daily newspaper in England that was not clearly conservative in its political affiliation. The term "Guardian reader" is therefore often used pejoratively by right-wingers. The reactionary stereotype of a Guardian reader is a person with leftist or liberal politics rooted in the 1960s, working in the public sector, regularly eating lentils and muesli, wearing sandals and believing in alternative medicine and natural medicine as evidenced by Labour MP Kevin Hughes' largely rhetorical question in the House of Commons on November 19, 2001:
"Does my right hon. Friend find it bizarre — as I do — that the yoghurt- and muesli-eating, Guardian-reading fraternity are only too happy to protect the human rights of people engaged in terrorist acts, but never once do they talk about the human rights of those who are affected by them?" [6]
Like most stereotypes, this one is both inaccurate and outdated (for example, the Guardians science coverage is extensive and is characterised by a contempt for alternative medicine), but it is a persistent feature of English political discourse.
Even Doctors perpetuate the stereotype by using the acronym GROLIES on patient notes. The acronym expands to Guardian Reader Of Low Intelligence in Ethnic Skirt. [7]
The Guardian has a tradition of spoof articles on April Fool's Day, sometimes contributed by regular advertisers such as BMW. The most elaborate of these was a travel supplement on San Serriffe.
In August 2004, for the US presidential election, the editor of the supplement ”G2”, Ian Katz, thought it would be an interesting idea to do a letter-writing campaign in Clark County , Ohio as this was a small county in a swing state. He bought a voter list from the county for $25 and asked people to write to those on the list undecided in the election. This caused something of a backlash with letters on both sides of the argument. Much ill-informed rhetoric was exchanged. However, on the 21st October, the Guardian decided to retire the campaign. Bush ended up winning 51 percent of the Clark County vote.
After the election, Republican and Democrat leaders in the county agreed that the Guardian's campaign had not influenced the outcome of the election but suggested that it may have contributed to the high turnout (76.7%).
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