What's the best Sunday paper?

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entirely subjective I know, but while I am a faithful Guardian reader and I love their Saturday paper, I am really fed up with the Observer, I find the quality of the writing especially in the supplements is very poor, the articles are boring and repetitive and I am just fed up with reading about the environment every single Sunday.

So what do you think would be a good alternative for me?

I loved (and miss it a lot now that we are not in the UK) the Guardian on Saturday. At first we used to get the Sunday Times, but thought it was too conservative and got on our nerves. So yes, I think the Observer is better than the others.

Agree with Observer best of a bad lot. A lot of really irritating crap in the supplements, but that's probably the definition of a Sunday supplement. I really like William Keegan in the business section despite his terrifying facial hair.

mmhhh i suppose i will have to give the Independent and the Times a try.

I agree with whoever said that the OWM is ghastly, and tbh I find that the main magazine is getting worse all the time. I mean Kathryn Flett, she's an ok tv critic, but i don't think she deserves the opening column- there is never any meat or spark to it! plus i am starting to get a bit fed up with the smug self satisfied tone of the whole thing, and I loathe in particular, with a passion, the environmental columnist (Lucy Siegle i think?) whose sole purpose in life it seems to be to make you feel guilty about existing.

The right wing and narrow-minded bias of the Sunday Times drives me batty (obviously not in same league as Torygraph, but still annoying). The Saturday Times is much much better ime, lots of detail and background details, but leaning more towars factual rather than long-winded opinion.
So I suggest you keep buying the Saturday Guardian and also buy the Saturday times that day, just make both last all weekend.

Lilymaid- we've had to buy the telegraph on holiday- and hough I'm loathe to admit it- it is a good read, apart from the politics!

On principal though I couldn't bring myself to but it.....

franca- agree about the sunday Times being conservative, - and conservative asumptions about things like clothes, style, holidays etc... it really got to me, at an unreasonable level- I was always shouting at it.... PAH BOFF

I have given up on Sunday papers, they depress me.

What I do now is save the G2 sections of the Guardian during the week and read them on Sunday instead, the writing is MUCH better than in any of the Sunday papers.

we buy Guardian during week and Observer on Sunday.. I agree Observer is not as good but I still rate the Guardian. I mostly read the Cash /money /business / main bit and mags and my dp reads the sport and travel and review bits so there is not squabbling in our household.
For others mentioning cost, they are doing a promotion at the mo where you can sign up for vouchers at a 30% saving. You set up a monthyl dd and they post vouchers to you that you can excahnge at a newsagents. We've just done this and will save £140 a year (so they say) , starts at beginning of feb

hey Molly, sounds good- where can i get the vouchers?

the ad's are actually in the paper...Or look on their website.. if you buy the paper everyday it is a good deal.. if you go on hols, you can give the vouchers to friend/ neighbour

Oh we go through this every week.

On Saturday, should we get Saturday Telegraph or the Guardian? On Sunday, is it the Sunday Times or the Observer? I find the Guardian and Observer can be unbearably smug and a bit boring and WORTHY, and as for the Observer Woman mag, OMFG. But there are some good bits, and DH prefers them. I think there is more to the Sat Telegraph, just don't read the leaders and only read the letters for the comedy value... Sometimes we buy two and then just feel very guilty if I haven't read them both, I mean the cost and the waste it's not very green is it

I get the Guardian on Saturday because it usually has a good two days' worth of reading in it. On Sunday I used to get the Sunday Times but I stopped because of how London-Centric the supplements were. There didn't seem to be a single restaurant or event worth reviewing outside of London. I got the Observer a couple of times but I found it too similar to the Guardian, without as much content as the Saturday one. So nowadays I mostly browse online for interesting stuff.

Observer and Times in the Castafiore household.

Another reluctant vote for Observer on "best of bad lot" basis.

You are quite right about William Keegan and his sideburns, Iorek - they are awesome, aren't they? Like something from The Land That Time Forgot...

I normally get the observer but HATE it every week I wonder who the hell they are picthing all their lifestyle stuff to (how much money do they think most people have )

to my horror I find the telegraph much better, I just have to remmeber that it is a right wing facist viewpoint and see through all the bullshit.

It's really true that the "lefty" Guardian and Observer are the absolute worst for telling you to buy ridiculously expensive "lifestyle" stuff.

The best Sunday paper is the Saturday Guardian. Just keep it til Sunday!

We get the Times during the week and the Observer. Andrew Rawnsley and Nick Cohen are always worth reading. On a sleb twaddly note, was stunned to discover that John Humphreys has left his partner and little son to get together with Catherine Bennett.

Was really quite put discomfited by the redesign of Saturday's Times - seems to be coyping Saturday's Guardian and I've always like the fact that they feel different. Shame they have moved Money into the main section as it was good to be able to remove this and divide out the paper more easily.

OMG - chocolatelymilkroll

Is that really true about John Humphreys??? Am appalled. Not least because Catherine Bennett is one of the many things I hate about the Observer - find her column teeth-grindingly dull.

Though my particular hatred is Barbara Ellen. A whole page which usually is along the lines of "Oooh, Ralph shouldn't have got fired off the Apprentice. I know he's posh but he's really fit." The woman has the intellectual bite of a starved flea. She was fine at sleb interviews but she just doesn't have the substance to tackle meatier issues and it insults my already limited intelligence to have someone even dumber than me giving me their take on worldwide events.

But I find the Telegraph a bit thin and the Sun Times annoying. What to do? The Mail

I actually came on to post this link to the guardian today, Olga Polizzi's inspired advice on how to beat the credit crunch by ... spending tens of thousands on a new bed and duvet. Love her repeated use of the word "ideally"

Sunday Times is the best of a bad bunch imo.

We used to have the Torygraph too, but recently cancelled. It has got too nutty (too religious and very anti-women, imo).

at John Humphrys

Lol at credit crunch busting bed:

"Ideally, you would buy a new bed or mattress. (All our five-star hotels have the Rocco Forte bed from Hypnos, hypnosbeds.com, 01844 348200)"

They cost a grand and a half!

In the same feature there was something about creating a reading corner by buying a chair costing £600 and a lamp costing £150.

Are they on the same planet as us?

i read that article too,
extraordinary.
well i spose not everyone is facing redundancy was my initial thought.

omg John Humphris!!! still, i suppose his ex partner is better off without him hopefully she can find someone young and fit.... but the little boy??? why father a child in your 60s if you're not going to stick around?

i am glad i am not the only one who loves the sat guardian but hates the observer. and it keeps getting worse imo. i just thing the whole thing is very poorly edited and incredibly self referential (yesterday on the cover of the food monthly was a picture of a naked woman, who turned out to be the former editor, now leading with a story on how fat she got being the editor... wtf???). still, i worship the ground Nigel Slater walks on... he (and Mariella Frostrup) are the main reason i still buy it...

On a Sunday we buy Sunday Times, Mail, and the News of the world. I like all of them.