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Arrived early for a meeting and thought I'd sit in a café with a paper - used to be a regular thing but haven't bought a paper for perhaps 5 years.

Can't remember what I used to pay but £1.60 today surprised me. Worth every penny though and a very pleasurable experience, might do it again.

Which paper?

Ha, although I'm a champagne socialist -The Telegraph, it has the only cryptic crossword I could ever do from the big papers

I got the Guardian the other day for the first time in ages.  Think it was £2 and there was barely anything in it.  Maybe my memories are wrong, but it felt like the content was around halved. 

Sports and Biz sections of the Telegraph much the same but, now you mention it, I think the main part is probably reduced but not so much you'd feel too hard done by

The sports and business sections were definitely smaller.  Maybe the Telegraph isn't so affected as I got that on the plane out. 

I haven't compared the two, but it seems there is a lot more on the free Guardian website than in the paper.  Not sure that is great business strategy if true.

Now to conflate this thread with the politics thread.

Not always in tune with his fairly extreme libertarian views but like the cut of Jacob Rees Mogg's jib.

A letter in the Telegraph today, from Lord Grantley sings his praises for leadership of the Tory party. Part of the eulogy to his merits reads:

"...admired by the population at large"

Reckon he might get like a 10% recognition factor if the pop at large were shown a mug shot and, of those, shirley at least 50% are gonna dismiss the 'posh twat'

What do these Lords know ? Ban 'em

I still love reading the paper. The best is on holibobs. Cabbage by the pool all day reading cover to cover in the sun with a cooling beverage. Everyone's like 'where you get the paper' 'can I read the paper after you''. English paper is like the holy grail in foreign lands.

Really can't see the appeal of newspapers these days - on Sky News when they do tomorrow's front pages at 10.30 the front page of the Guardian will just be stories that I've already read on the website and it's not even tomorrow yet.

Holidays are pretty much the only time I ever get a paper, just to see what's going on back in Blightly.  Not sure I'll bother this year though, I think I'd rather not know.

Haven't you heard of t'internet?  Everything I read begs another question and off I go googling

I wouldn't read papers if they were delivered free.

You are completely correct. But there's just something nice about sitting by the pool, or having a lazy sunday morning with the paper. I mean I ignore 95% of everything in them, but there's usually a story I wouldn't have read if I hadn't have read it in a paper. Online I just read what I go to a site to read. A paper there's lots of other stuff i'll read in general. Mainly because if i've paid £2 I want to get my moneys worth

I can't believe a newspaper is £2

I like to be as Internet free as possible on holiday, spend enough time on it the rest if the year.

'Ow much?

Always gotta pick up a copy of the Torygraph at the airport.  Free bottle of water when you buy.  Paper is cheaper than the water so it's no brainer if you're looking to get lubed up anyway.  Also like Nirvana only crossword I can do.  Thickos of the world unite.

I can't help buying The Times. Loved it more after it went tabloid. Don't do crosswords (not clever enough), but I particularly enjoy skimming the single paragraph items which regularly include nuggets of comedy news (thieves caught after leaving selfies behind at the scene, etc etc)

On a more serious note, I really rate their sports editorial team: Matthew Syed and Mike Atherton are particularly insightful, and you can't access the complete articles online without paying fees.

We are of one mind on this.

The Times is the best of the lot, just ahead of the Telegraph.

I do need to have a fresh, unopened, un-creased copy though. I'm not prepared to read a copy of a newspaper someone else has already opened.

The Times is my go to option as well. The Telegraph is OK but around the time of an election it transforms in to a rag from the gutter equivalent to the The Mail, Mirror, Express, Sun etc. FT Weekend is always great and is the only paper I never miss atm.

Yeah, I hate when someone has read all the best news and just left the rubbish news for me.

One of my friends has a life long hobby of taking the top copy of a newspaper in the shop and placing it below the second copy, so people who are so fussy that that hate an already opened paper get one without knowing it :)

Ha, incred.

I ALWAYS take the second copy.

It's the fella on the front left of this picture..

You might recognise him.


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Mr Coombes?

This is an outrageous derail, but that photo led me to this article. Well worth a read.

Interesting change in football team fortunes, too....

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Yes sir!