Best newspaper to subscribe/buy.

So I am looking for a newspaper that is informative, educational, not too bias and just interesting.

So I have narrowed it down to those I would like to read:

The Daily Telegraph
The Guardian
The Times

please feel free to suggest any other. BUT I just need YOU to recommend ONE NEWSPAPER!

Cheers

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Reply 1

sjrm95

Have you tried the magazine The Week? It's excellent and basically compiles a list of the best articles and opinions from various different newspapers. Always very interesting to read the whole debate too.

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Reply 2

iamsuperwoman

Original post by sjrm95

Yeah this looks H'AMAZING!

Reply 3

pinklego

well, whatever you do, make sure you get a subscription to both left and right political papers otherwise you may become rutted in a particular way of thinking.

Reply 4

Lenry

Maybe this will help with your decision. According to wikipedia;
The Daily Telegraph - Traditionalist, conservative and centre-right - Supported Conservative Party in 2010 elections
The Guardian - Centre-left and social-liberal - Supported Liberal Democrats in 2010 elections
The Times - Centre-right - Supported Conservative Party in 2010 elections

And to read about the other UK newspapers check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_newspapers_in_the_United_Kingdom

Reply 5

iamsuperwoman

Original post by pinklego

well, whatever you do, make sure you get a subscription to both left and right political papers otherwise you may become rutted in a particular way of thinking.

Care to SUGGEST any? :-)

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Daily mail!

The Independent - form your own opinions on the news. The Times is a good alternative; no way near as biased as it used to be and extremely informative, just a little dry in my opinion!

Reply 8

moonkatt

Original post by RJ93

The Independent - form your own opinions on the news. The Times is a good alternative; no way near as biased as it used to be and extremely informative, just a little dry in my opinion!

I read the indy or the i, however even though they proclaim to be independent they do lean leftwards slightly, even they admit this.

Reply 9

RJ93

Original post by moonkatt

I read the indy or the i, however even though they proclaim to be independent they do lean leftwards slightly, even they admit this.

The I definitely leans to the left and is generally pretty populist in the way it presents the news, but in terms of value for money its by far and away the best paper and great for students. But I honestly think that the Independent's main articles are pretty fair, although the opinion sections do lean to the left.

Reply 10

ApresAlkan

Best written articles, best coverage, best in general:

Financial Times.

Support the Tories to some extent, but are generally centrist and unbiased.

Reply 11

BristolStudent96

Telegraph is best paper.

Reply 12

FinnianC

I read the Guardian regularly and the coverage and journalism is excellent. The only opinionated stuff tends to be in the 'comment' section at the back, so the real main articles are fairly unbiased (although there are hints of social-liberal interest). However, I've read the Times once or twice and found the journalism really excellent there too. So I'd recommend either of those.

Reply 13

Barry Lyndon

The Telegraph is far too biased towards Conservative/Right wing politics for a lot of people, earning the name 'Torygraph'.

The Times is part of Murdoch's murky empire, it baffles me that so many people still support it after the two major scandals last year.

The Guardian is very informative, I don't know of any other mainstream media source that present so much data and information all from the highest sources such as the ONS. This alone allows you to think and interpret the data for yourself - most other rags give you a subjective text. Admittedly, it is left leaning although once you're aware of that then just take things with a pinch of salt.

The Independent - very good!

Reply 14

Eboracum

Original post by Big-Benji

The Independent - very good!

For me as well, very good.

Avoid all tabloids, and avoid "the Daily Torygraph". This last part is crucial.

Reply 15

marcusfox

I can get you a subscription to the Economist for £1.

Reply 16

Spontogical

The Positive News newspaper.

Reply 17

Libertine96

The Independent for sure and you can get 'I' if you're in hurry. The suggestion of 'The Week' is a great idea aswell. Whatever you do, don't go for the Guardian.

Reply 18

Mary Likes

I only read BBC news. It is the only real anti government platform, and suits my left wing bias. Tory based Times and Torygraph must be avoided. I only hope BBC becomes entirely socialist. I'm thinking of moving to Russia anyway so I don't give a toss.

Reply 19

Rakas21

Original post by iamsuperwoman

If your going to pay I'd go for Financial Times and Wall Street Journal.

Of those three though the Times is the least partial however both the Guardian and Telegraph have a lean but are factual with good opinion pieces depending on your politics.

So really it comes down to whether you want your opinion pieces to be about brexit and the economy or the evils of the straight, white, male.