Newspapers

Well, I say newspapers, but obviously I don't include those that just try to drag everyone down to their level. The Star's a comic with tits; The Sun's a crayoning book which can't even muster up a decent headline these days; The Mirror has to be the only thing that has actually got worse for the absence of Piers Morgan; The Mail is a drip, drip, drip of cancerous hatred; and The Express makes The Mail look agreeable.

Of the readable papers The Independent is overly-earnest, and do you really want to get your news via Murdoch in The Times.

Or The Telegraph which I do like, and is well worth buying on a long train trip, as it allows you to polish off the cryptic crossword as a five-finger exercise for something more challenging, check-up on your old public school's rugby score, and find the date of the next Albrighton Hunt.

So I really mean The Guardian, which I've bought every day for 27 years now, and so must be the only brand I've been loyal to all my grown-up life. (Except Crest, Head and Shoulders). There was an interview in said paper with some IT guru/soothsayer who said all papers will have disappeared within 15 years. I found that so upsetting I'm determined not to take it for granted and to enjoy it whilst I can...


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