Yes agreed, on opinion pieces, everyone has their own opinion, and wants to shout about it. I'm not even sure they are useful on a news site, but they drive tra

Yes agreed, on opinion pieces, everyone has their own opinion, and wants to shout about it. I'm not even sure they are useful on a news site, but they drive traffic and due to the perverse incentives which drive places like the guardian (ads and clicks above all, the competition for traffic on google), they will start to dominate over didactic pieces which take more effort and drive less traffic. Our journalism is turning into Buzzfeed because of the quest for traffic at all costs.