New or old?

I enjoyed Marina Hyde’s columns in the Guardian, at least the political ones and sometimes the pop culture ones. They were a bit of relief during the horrible UK politics around 2019. But then she went away on a break and came back, and the columns definitely feel quite mean-spirited, especially the pop culture ones and the political ones are shadowed by it too. Ageist, misogynist and, as I said, mean-spirited, ostensibly about the horrors of the privileged but, to be honest, a bit rich coming from the daughter of a baronet, even if from a relatively new line. Was it always thus? Or is it new?