Cancelling Elections

[Protheroe]

Oh. I agree with that then.

[man in the corner shop]

It’s been a bugbear of the Telegraph readership for a while now. To ‘Outraged of Saffron Walden’ it’s not a new thing.

But isn’t it just kicking shit down the road? One would have thought - a little like the midterms in the US - surely sometimes it is better to endure your blows early and have time to regroup. I think this optic works against them twice in that respect, and they’re hardly getting much good press for what isn’t going wrong.

Telegraph readers are Daily Mail readers who speak a bit posher.
That paper has gone from being decent to being a shitrag over the past 15 years.
Very sad to see

I wholeheartedly agree. Only occasionally read that rag when I pop into my old dear’s and she begins repeating herself, and it truly is now a right-wing tabloid dressed in broadsheet clothing. It does use bigger words, though.

Yes, I think it is for Mail readers with a superiority view "considerably richer than yow" type. Or people might just be loyal to it and have missed the move form centre-right to right wing nut job.

Going back 30 years I used to take the Telegraph sometimes. It was right wing then but intelligent and considered. Now you might as well cut and paste Mail editorials and articles into it.

I think FT and Independent are the best reads these days. I dont mind the Grauniad for reporting but all of the opinion writers seem to be big on mewling and puking about anything at all.

I can do that myself on here!

[HawkingsHalfpint]

The Guardian - although not 100% my cup of tea - is critically important for its real independence - it is not oligarch owned and never will be. One of the last of the true, free, mainstream press. Notwithstanding its bias.

The Independent is OK but becoming considerably less eponymous in the last decade or so. But I’m with you in that this and the FT are probably the most reliable. But I find myself putting the latter down more quickly, because there is only so much reading about bond-yields and M&As that you can stomach before nodding off.

In the house I used to live, the previous owner (who shacked up with someone else and left his Mrs in the lurch, hence us getting it so cheaply) forgot to cancel his Time subscription. But this was 20 years ago, when it was worth a read. I wouldn’t wipe my backside with it now.

[Pontificator]

I used to buy the Guardian occasionally before I retired, didn't have the time or energy to read it when i was working. then paid for the app when I was away and chipped in online. I eventually got fed up with it, not least because they were paying Owen Jones to churn out nonsense. I switched to the Times a few years ago, it’s generally solid and has some good columnists. It annoys me that the Guardian is free. Good journalism costs money; if its free is it worth anything?

[Derek Hardballs]

I used to buy the Guardian occasionally before I retired, didn't have the time or energy to read it when i was working. then paid for the app when I was away and chipped in online. I eventually got fed up with it, not least because they were paying Owen Jones to churn out nonsense. I switched to the Times a few years ago, it’s generally solid and has some good columnists. It annoys me that the Guardian is free. Good journalism costs money; if it’s free is it worth anything?

I really think you’re in the wrong party… there’s a space well several by the looks of it opened up in the Tory Party for someone with your political views.

[chasetownbaggie]

Isn't this all a bit disingenuous? They are councils that won't exist in about 12 months time, I'm led to believe. Even Reform should be backing it if they really are so committed to slashing waste in our councils. I note also that local party officials are acting contrary to what their national leaders are saying about this e.g. the Lib Dems in control of Cheltenham.

[Hudds2]

I used to buy the Guardian occasionally before I retired, didn't have the time or energy to read it when i was working. then paid for the app when I was away and chipped in online. I eventually got fed up with it, not least because they were paying Owen Jones to churn out nonsense. I switched to the Times a few years ago, it’s generally solid and has some good columnists. It annoys me that the Guardian is free. Good journalism costs money; if its free is it worth anything?

The Times is shit now.  I am cancelling my subscription.  I pay towards the Guardian.  It is the best of what is out there, for its faults.

[baggy1]

That takes away the opportunity to write a headline that makes the government appear to be running scared. It keeps the bot believers enraged.

[Protheroe]

 its real independence

It's not independent though is it? Most of the writers are craven pinkos who'd be terrified of expressing an opinion, or making a journalistic boob outside the clearly defined lanes of progressive sensibility.

Even that uber-twat Owen Jones came close to cancellation the other week for some minor oversight on the misgendering of some fella.

[HawkingsHalfpint]

 its real independence

It's not independent though is it? Most of the writers are craven pinkos who'd be terrified of expressing an opinion, or making a journalistic boob outside the clearly defined lanes of progressive sensibility.

Even that uber-twat Owen Jones came close to cancellation the other week for some minor oversight on the misgendering of some fella.

Oh, it is clearly aimed at a particular readership. I thought I covered that by stating its obvious bias. What I meant was in terms of its ownership.