What newspaper do you read? It's becoming a real problem.
Though must admit, I'm not a proper reader, skipping the bad news, which is most of it. (I have some sympathy for that newsreader who said a few years back that people didn't want to hear only bad news all the time, and couldn't we have some good news? Surely there must be some good stuff going on in the world... He got laughed out of town, as I recall.)
We grew up reading the super soaraway Sun and the News of the World. It was only really when I left home for college that I saw newspapers without knockers in them.
In Barcelona I was homesick for the Evening Standard, especially the Friday supplement (which was not the execrable, wannabe-Tatler rag it is these days, but more like Time Out in the form of a daily paper.)
The foreign editions of the British papers were really expensive - the Guardian in particular, consisting of about 3 pages of extreme boredom for 5 euros, so I ended up buying the Telegraph which was better value. It also made me feel nostalgic for an England that I didn't really recognise; "this week, we show you how to get the best display out of your delphiniums."
Now I'm stuck. The Guardian is still boring. The Independent is badly designed, and boring. The Mail, beyond the pale. The Times...? Please recommend me something, so I am not reduced to the Metro.
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Being that (as you know) I live in Ireland, most of the papers we get are of an Irish variety, so I can't really recommend a paper to you, other than for whenever you're next over here.
In which case and at which time I would recommend reading the Irish Times (not affiliated with The Times), and the Sunday Tribune or Sunday Business Post on the weekend. Top papers, all.
Hmm - I find that the FT on a Sunday is pretty darn good. Not for the financial news so much but the glossy mag inside. There are so many wonderful things in there to look at - although you would never be able to afford a thing it really makes you salivate. I guess the FT thinks only wealthy city boy types with glamour puss girlfriends and wives read it. Other than that I can't offer much advice but spend £1.60 and buy HEAT which gives most people the fix they need of gossip, fashion and news!
I don't read any newspapers.
I read a French weekly news magazine called "L'Express", but only because I'm "revising" for my translation exam.
I gave up on tabloids around the time of the fergie 'toe sucking' scandal. I don't have time to read the broadsheets every day. I choose Private Eye,it tells you what you need to know and takes the piss out of everyone while it does so.
That's my kind of paper! ;)
I read the Guardian, The Independent and the Metro.
I also read the Economist, Men's Health, and New Scientist.
Anything with lot's of pictures does me well.
I know it wasn't very topical but commuting on the school bus with a copy of Whizzer and Chips was moost entertaining...Two comics in one, double the fun!
Sadly it's not printed anymore...humph.
So what you're all saying is that I should read:
Irish newspapers
the Financial Times
L'Express (in French)
Private Eye
Men's Health and
Whizzer and Chips
What an interesting and informed, not to say eccentric, view of the world I would have...
Hey cool. Workin for a paper in India, I get a neat perspective. If you can, do read this book by Andrew Marr: My Trade. Cheers...
frankly, i don't read papers anymore. they're all boring now. and the news are the same everywhere. i find the best paper to be your most local one, the crappy free ones, most of the time they're the ones still relevant. otherwise, they're all the same syndicated stuff really.
I regularly picked up foreign newspapers, the free ones that are in bins outside tube stations. Although Polski Gazetta is in Polish (and I don't understand a word), I find it quite interesting. I like the fusion magazine which is 'for' Central and Eastern Europeans living in London.
If I want other news, I'll go to the Times, Guardian, Independent websites and not waste paper.
That bugs me greatly - we bought the Sunday Times yesterday, read for about 3 hours (having dumped 5 or 6 sections we'd never read) and then later dumped the rest. While we recycled, it's still quite wasteful.
I read the Guardian, and I personally don't find it boring. I read the news, and then I read the G2 magazine, which generally has something funny, witty or interesting to say. Then if I have any time I'll go back and read the rest of the paper. I also enjoy the Saturday Guardian and it's Weekend Magazine and the Guide.
Then I read the Observer on a Sunday.
If I've got time for it I read the Daily Mirror for gossip, scurrilous stories and pictures of badly dressed celebs.
Gosh, you have choices :-O we don't, we have 3 rags :-(
If I didn't know better, I would say the other Adrian is me. I love those foreign papers, and Fusion is/was my favourite. I say 'was' as it seems to have gone from Kennington station and I've not seen it for quite a few months.
I don't bother with papers. I read online versions of Times and Independent and sometimes the Guardian if I want preachy smugness. I very sketchily skim through Metro, londonpaper and LondonShite to find light newsy items for work.
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