@Edent agree the Guardian should publish a list of the redirects. Breaking all those published links is not good for the web.

On a project with UK Parliament we took the effort to set up a redirect service when their research briefing site switched to 3 standalone sites. It’s worth preserving URLs.

@Edent FYI, you have a couple of different misspellings of 'Guardian' in the article: 'Gaurdian', 'Grauniad' and 'Guarrdian'.

I agree with the article though; URL shorteners are annoying at best, and an attack vector at worst...
The only use I've had for them were in my console-based chat client, where I would display them alongside the full URLs because at that time it didn't support clickable URLs when the URL was column-wrapped. But the shortened URL therefore was intended to be short-lived, entirely under my control, and not intended to be public-facing.

@Edent In a sense, all domain names are vulnerable, whether or not there's a URL shortener. The @arks_org solution for persistent object links is URLs for which the domain is "identity-inert". Instead a globally unique object identity is carried in the URL path.

Organizations come and go. So naturally preservation is helped by making it easy to move objects between different archival "homes" in succession (and/or in parallel).

@Edent

Well, i've owned http://GuardianNews.co.uk for over a decade.