What newspaper do you read and why?

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That's weird Miaou, that's exactly where I start with the ST- the back of the Review (Doors, Education, then back to the front). After that it's a bit of a free-for-all, but I always start in the same way. Spooky. Completely agree about Vanessa Wilde, loathsome tosh. I don't even glance at it any more.

Why very amazed, zebra? I make time to read a newspaper - most days at least. Just because I'm now a mother doesn't mean I've lost interest in the world around me. Quite the opposite, in fact!

I buy the guardian and occasionally the independent when I can (the european editions, so half the stuff is missing).

The only paper you can buy complete in Spain is the Times, but I refuse to give Murdoch any money.

I do miss the mags and supplements though - Janh brought me a load of Guardian mags when she visited and I've just finished them.

zebra - don't have as much time for papers as I used to, but there's something about curling up with a newspaper and a cup of tea. I sometimes make one paper last two weeks these days though.

The Telegraph, despite the huntin' shootin' angle because they aren't scared too say some very un PC things, and their coverage on Welsh issues are more accurate than anything else.
It's the thing I miss the most about being abroad. in fact, I get my sister to send the Saturday version to me, despite it costing a tenner a go!

spacedonkey: the few times i've read the FT it's struck me that the news coverage is much much better than anyone else!

don't get much time to read paper, but we get the guardian/observer and independent both days at the weekends and that lasts us thro the week.

have to confess to turning straight to neil spencer's stars in the observer as first port of call

Moondog, you mean you dont read the Western Mail?!

Surpised that no-one has mentioned the Scotsman, I used to read it when we were in Scotland.

Nah, the Western Mail is shite-pedestrian and parochial and the title is an insult-Wales being vaguely referred to as the west (of England presumably!).Won't even deign to include it in the title. Bloody cheek!

Sorry, I should have used the winc emoticon, shouldn't I? My parents soemtimes used to get the WM, awful rag!

We also used to get the local paper. High spot in my youth was when it ran some Plaid Cymru election ads. They had two photos, what Labour has done, , What Plaid will do and the dozy paper got the photos the wrong way round. Accident, or so that said!

That's very funny!
I will tell my next door neighbour (PC MP incidentally. He will enjoy that!)

My father LHAO when it happened as he was helping to run the labour campain at the time. I remember having to sit and stitch labour rosettes....and you tell kids today and they just don't believe you!

Bit dodgy that... (the rosette sewing!!)
I took my neighbour's suit to the dry cleaner's as a favour a couple of hours before the results came through (he was going to wear it that night).
When I went to collect it and told her who it belonged to, she harumphed (love that word-great chance to use it here..) and said
'If I'd have known that before, I'd have made sure that it WASN'T ready today'
Charming!

Politics wer big in our house. We always had a poster in the window. We were on an end terrace with a big billboard on the end wall. Once, to my fathers disgust it had a PC poster on it! My mother joked that the one in the window was his and the one on the wall was hers! Nice memory, I haven't thought about that for years!

Shame politics isn't a bit bigger in people's houses these days eh?!
I'm virtually physically restraining myself from unleashing my fingers and letting fly on the keyboard with a really heavy rant!
(Nooooo Moondog!!
It's Saturday night.
Keep it nice and liiiiiight!)

snowvary, dear - what do you think of \link{http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/comment/0,11026,1366974,00.html\this} column by David Aaronovitch? I thought it was rather even-handed.

Meiowychristmas - sna;! I always read the back of NewsReview first ( but hate hate hate whatshisname's foodie column) then the rest of it, Home, Style and the other magazine, Money, Travel, the main bit.
Never read appointments, sport, funday or Drive.

Does NOONE read the Metro?!?!?!

yes, strictly speaking not reallya newspaper!