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I don't know if this is typical of UK journalism, culture or if it is just The Guardian's way of doing things but the article is filed as a normal (economic) news piece yet the whole thing is filled with opinions of the author. Even the very headline of the article is an opinion.

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The Guardian's Comment is Free section is opinion. It's a blog.

I'm kind of confused about what you are saying; When I click on the link I land on a page where the "News" tab is highlighted and beneath it the sections "Business > Economics" are printed in bold. Looks like a news article to me? I don't see anywhere that this is actually a blog post?

I think that this is down to the Guardian's politics - cultural relativism means prioritising one piece of writing as "news" over another as "opinion" is invalid.

I've got to say, having watched the journalism sausage factory in action while running a newspaper, I'm not entirely opposed. Journalists routinely choose what sources to cite and which to ignore. News is often, if not always, manipulated to communicate a political point of view. Dropping the pretence and presenting all news as opinion (or all opinion as news) seems at least honest.

If you look at the URL you'll see "commentisfree".

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