What newspaper do you read?

[sasguru]

How come can not say carp but can say tulipe?

What was that Davy?

[shaunbhoy]

More Grauniad readers than Daily Mail readers on here at the moment.
What a searing indictment of the times we live in! Tsk Tsk!

[Bagpuss]

I resent the fact that when you buy a newspaper in this country you have political propaganda rammed down your throat. All newspapers should report the news impartially, few if any do.

[WotNxt]

Why no Evening Standard in the list?

Can't stand the national papers as they are all too politically biased in their own way.

If I ever have the time then I read the Sunday Times but otherwise its just the ES while eating my lunch.

Always find it a bit annoying that the nationals report the same stories as the ES but a day later!

[DodgyAgent]

I resent the fact that when you buy a newspaper in this country you have political propaganda rammed down your throat. All newspapers should report the news impartially, few if any do.

The impartial ones tend not to last long.

Apart from anything else why on earth should'nt newspapers express a view? They all have their own agendas but quite frequently they publish articles from people from opposite ends of the political spectrum. It is a vital necessity that journalists crawl around uncovering activities of grubby little politicians and then putting forward their points of view.

You dont have to agree with them or read them.

[DodgyAgent]

Why no Evening Standard in the list?

Can't stand the national papers as they are all too politically biased in their own way.

If I ever have the time then I read the Sunday Times but otherwise its just the ES while eating my lunch.

Always find it a bit annoying that the nationals report the same stories as the ES but a day later!

The evening standard is as political as any newspaper. There are few commentators as opinionated as Will Self (serving) for example.

[Bagpuss]

I was once stood behind Max Hastings at a parking meter he initially looked as miserable as one of his rants, then looked a little nervous, maybe he expected me to mug him.

[DodgyAgent]

I was once stood behind Max Hastings at a parking meter he initially looked as miserable as one of his rants, then looked a little nervous, maybe he expected me to mug him.

I should think anyone would be nervous if they found you standing behind them.

Unless their name is Pete Tatchell

[Bagpuss]

I should think anyone would be nervous if they found you standing behind them.

Unless their name is Pete Tatchell

I was unshaven and my hair was long, he probably expected me to be on crack

The impartial ones tend not to last long.

Apart from anything else why on earth should'nt newspapers express a view? They all have their own agendas but quite frequently they publish articles from people from opposite ends of the political spectrum. It is a vital necessity that journalists crawl around uncovering activities of grubby little politicians and then putting forward their points of view.

You dont have to agree with them or read them.

I resent the fact that even factual articles have to be spun to the politics of the proprietors. They can uncover corruption by having a go at all with the same vigour. This is why a newspaper like the Telegraph annoys me, excellent in places it spoils it with blatent propaganda, are the readers not intelligent enough to decide for themselves? Much the same can be said for the Daily Mail.

[WotNxt]

The evening standard is as political as any newspaper. There are few commentators as opinionated as Will Self (serving) for example.

Political, yes.

But overall (as opposed to individual columnists) would you say it has a political bias and, if so, to which politics?

To me it seems to be fairly neutral politically but maybe that is just because my political views are closely matched to theirs. When I read any other newspaper now the political views that come through (either blatantly or "between the lines") just jar so badly.