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?

But slarty - the whole point of the article was that we're all being credit crunched. So to say go out and buy a 1.5k bed and mattress was actually insulting.

And had forgotten to launch a separate attack on Obs Food

An incredibly badly written article by former ed of OFM "I love runny cheese, pate, red wine, pies, lard, therefore I am fat ... I must diet ... but it is hard because I miss runny cheese, pate, red wine, pies, lard, but they make me fat so therefore I must calorie count, but it's tough because etc etc "

Copy and paste this paragraph 200 times until you have an article.

And then an interview with a sleb chef about his travels with Gwyneth Paltrow "Everyone thinks she's really uptight but she's great fun". And not at all needy to the point of pathology about reviving her flagging career. Do we really give a toss that Gwyneth ate paella "with gusto"? So patronising and dumbed down.

Aaaah. Feel better for the rant.

Ah, Observer Food Monthly. Keeping faded Britpop stars in the manner to which they have become accustomed by paying them to write about making cheese in their very big house in the country.

Lol at your Blur post Rolo! He's still miles better than the collossal waste of breathing space/paper that is Polly Vernon though!

Agree about Polly Vernon janeite. Just how bad is this writing?

"The transition from autumn/winter dressing to spring/summer dressing, is a toughie. The other way round - spring/summer into autumn/winter - is a breeze; partly because it all happens within the same year, which means we're already in the swing of things stylistically; partly because British summers are awful, so it's easy to imagine a time when you might want to wear the fat woolly knitted warm things that are on offer in store from August onwards."

I read the Guardian all week but get the Saturday and Sunday Times delivered; Saturday because of the Jumbo cryptic (and I like the magazine too) and Sunday because I HATE the Observer, the Independent on Sunday makes me want to kill myself and I can'r bring myself to buy the Telegraph. The News Review in the Sunday Times is quite a good read and the Style magazine always becomes loo reading (TMI?).

I did like the Observer until I got so heartily fed up of reading the phrase 'carbon footprint' that I boycotted it altogether.

Yeah, KingRolo, why is it that I read more about Alex James since he downshifted to live a simple life in the country than I did when he was a rock star ?

Don't hate me but I buy the News of The World for gossip and The Times when I have finished with my comic

news of the screws
observor
times (just a big version of the NoW) for style magazine alone

observer here

isnt the news of the world in breach of the trades description act 1968?

I had noticed that it could only take till 9.30am to get through the observer...Flick, flick, flick.
well I'm not impressed any more, I expect a much longer lie in on a sunday morning. So we have started to get the FT at the weekends, not as many adverts now(crunch)so mostly stuff to read.
Sundays mornings restored to 11.30am.

Times irritates too much, telegraph feels like my grans, no way will i be a mail woman.... tricky problem.

Anyone remember the Sunday Correspondent?
I think i was the only one who bought it.

I will never be a mail person again. Used to read the Daily Mail as a kid (14 yrs) and noticed that the repeated articles Then they did a serial type report on my colleagues and photos (me included in the background) asking us to do daft things (got very cross with the photographer) then they miss quoted everyone. Will not buy it even for the DVD's of old films that I love.

MIL is very useful for the DVDs as she is the original Daily mail surrey women.

Voodoo Thanks v much for the brilliant article on how to make a credit crunch bed by Olga da Polga. (?sp) Loving the handy tips "You'll need four pillows" and the justification for spending approx two grand "...it may feel like extravagance but it will provide months of comfort"

Always buy the Sunday Times purely for AA Gill and the telly listings. Absolutely loathe the rest of it - spend most of the week shouting it at as I plough through the self obsessed, self satisfied twaddle that it contains.

And relax.

Am I the only person on MN who isn't massively offended/irritated by Polly Vernon?

Yes lala

Yes Lala - your tolerance levels must be off kilter somewhere. I prescribe two hours on a Sunday morning with a cold cup of coffee and only PV for company - you'll soon come around to our way of thinking.

John Humphrys thing is true, it was in the, ahem, Sun yesterday.

Are you Polly V's mum, lala?

Actually scrub that I bet even she finds her daughter loathsome.

I find her fashion stuff quite breezy - think she is rather good interviewer . Not keen on Cocktail Girl though

I bought The Observer for the first time every this week and was appalled by the tosh in the magazine. That Kathryn Flett does not deserve a column.

We get both the Sat Guardian and Telegraph so have both ends of the political spectrum covered there.

I like the Sat Telegraph but the ads make me laugh - the ones in the supplements would seem a bit old even for my 86 year old grandma....it's all mobility aids, hearing aids etc. Weird because actually some of the content is quite young e.g. family and education stuff, rather than features about how to choose your next retirement home or find the best equity release mortgage.

Love the Guardian Weekend magazine and especially Tim Dowling and Lucy Mangan's columns - they blow Flett out of the water.

Sometimes get the Sunday Times but it's a lot more celeb fixated that it used to be and I think Style is totally up its own.

Yes, Kathryn Flett is dreadful - and why does she have her fingers held in that weird way in front of her face on her pic? It irritates the hell out of me every week.

Never really bought the Saturday Gruniad - might give it a go.

Yes what on earth is she meant to be doing with them??? I thought that too.

Oh and it's been said before but will Lucy Mangan PLEASE get some new shoes and not wear that dreadful outdated outfit in her column's pic.