I have started reading the Torygraph...

[robjh]

I've taken to buying the Telegraph.

Get off this forum at once!

In your defence though, it is still a serious grown-up paper, despite its penchant for colour pictures of young rich women on every front page. Its political-ideological position is pretty obvious and you can filter that out from your reading - and it's not much different from the Grauniad in that respect, which also views everything from a particular standpoint. I have been known to leaf through it myself if it's free.

 

[accountantpete]

Basically The Telegraph is a few few words cobbled together and thrown around pictures of this lot every day

 

[byegad]

A friend of mine, an avid Torygraphian, tells me they can no longer be viewed as the Fleet St organ of the Conservative party. Apparently even they are sick of the spineless upper class twerp running the country.

 

[GaryA]

Havn't read it for years
the sports section used to be quite decent-has that gone to pot as much as the rest of it?

 

[Aperitif]

We get the Saturday Telegraph and most of it goes to recycling without being read. It's still our household paper but I have to say I'm increasingly moving to the 20p 'i' which gives me a reasonable snapshot of all that's important and a crossword I can do.

The grauniad was just too earnest, we did try.

You really are a cheapskate then, as the 'i' is 30p on a Saturday! (Easy crossword / word changes / number puzzles...keeps me happy in a quiet moment too - oh, and the Mark Hix twerp with fantasy cooking spread! )

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Just buy "Closer" magazine. It's where The Telegraph gets most of its stuff.

Just checked their website, it looks great, there's some stuff about Simon Cowell, Peter Andre and 10 annoying things about the weather.

 

[Fnaar]

I just don't buy newspapers any more. I get my news fix on the interwebs :-)

 

[ASC1951]

FT for me, although only the Weekend Edition. A decent selection of national and international news, no tendentious tripe from the Toynbees and Phillips of this world, no tedious tittle tattle about the Royals or 'personalities'; and I can persuade myself that I have my finger on the pulse of nation's finances.

 

[User169]

Just checked their website, it looks great, there's some stuff about Simon Cowell, Peter Andre and 10 annoying things about the weather.

Well obviously it's a bit more upmarket than the telegraph.

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Skateboard, Torygraph, whatever next? I suppose that, having owned one years ago, the usual route of just getting a motorcycle and killing yourself, is no good to you.

The lovely Helen is implacably opposed to a repeat of "The Jota Incident" so my mo'biking days are done, or so it seems. Though she does often wistfully recall the happy times on the pillion of the R100RS.
I'm fairly sure the half-life of the lovely Helen's ire is five years.Mind you now she's getting into cycling she'll probably go all n+1 on me.

You've made me stop and think though, how long is it since I hung up my leathers? Which, incidentally would come in damn useful if I ever master the longboard and take up downhill. I think I sold my Laverda in 2008 or 2009, to a nice man from East Kent. That'll bug me now I'll have to check my records.

 

[ohnovino]

Read a copy last week for the first time in years, and I was amazed how poor the news coverage was. Most of the stories either had no byline or were "by Telegraph correspondent", which means someone's just re-typed a wire story.

The sports & business bits aren't bad, though.

 

[srw]

[QUOTE 2644797, member: 259"]The cryptic crossword's much easier and there's no Nigel Slater recipes. Win-win![/quote]
Slater's in the Observer. In the Guardian you get Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, Yotam Ottolenghi and Dan Leppard. And Araucaria on the crosswords for as long as his back catalogue lasts.

Wasn't it the Telegraph who tried setting crosswords by computer?

 

[srw]

I picked up a copy of the Telegraph on the train a week ago on a Saturday. Despite nearly falling asleep (36 hours without sleep, 123 miles in my legs and 3 pints of Adnams in my stomach) I still got through 3 sections including the main one inside 50 minutes. There was nothing at all worth reading.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

My favourite recipe for aubergine parmigiana came from the Telegraph. Pint to Pint finds some decent boozers, in fact Mort pointed one out in Ilkeston and I actually went there when I'd finished work one day, bloody good it was too - so that's 2 things, erm...

 

[Glow worm]

I have a sneaking respect for the Torygraph as The weather forecast uses lovely Fahrenheit, and rainfall is measured in good old inches ( at least it was the last time I picked up a copy - which was a while ago), instead of that dreadful foreign kilocentigrameters or whatever they're called.