The Guardian (website plus I’ll buy it at the weekend) – force of habit really although the sports coverage is excellent. NW roots make it the best football paper by a mile – Andy Hunter knows the score. Good cryptic crossword, although that’s balanced by the unacceptable absence of a bridge column.
Don’t mind Toynbee-style leftist articles as that is the heritage of the paper. It’s disappointing to see a cabbage like George Monbiot, however, given a voice in a serious newspaper.
It’s clearly trying to position itself as the global left-wing news organisation – loads of US and Australian stuff on their website over the past year. They squeezed every last drop out of the Snowdon stuff, ran it to death on a daily basis. Can’t argue with their recent track record though, broke some massive stories. Alan Rusbridger closed down the News of the World almost single-handedly.