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**Micawber** · 08-09-2010, 18:16

Originally Posted by Cuddles

It is arguments like that which prove that Prof Hawking is wrong and there is still need for decent philosophical study and training in this world!

I see you cut the bit where I said it was a bit simplistic.

**Micawber** · 08-09-2010, 18:21

Originally Posted by Le_addeur_noir

The Guardian.the essential accessory for every anti-British crank under the sun.

Taking a bit of a punt here, but just imagining you are familiar with the selection of daily national newspapers available which one would you recommend as a well written, intelligent read, and why?

**llech** · 08-09-2010, 18:27

Originally Posted by Micawber

Taking a bit of a punt here, but just imagining you are familiar with the selection of daily national newspapers available which one would you recommend as a well written, intelligent read, and why?

I'm guessing The Daily Sport!

**lsquared** · 08-09-2010, 19:51

'Lord' Dannatt? Does this simpering ninny Jenkins know something we don't know?

Jenkins is, in the vernacular, a wobbly dish of jelly and animal offal - a mess. A mess intellectually and in every other way imaginable.

**Kitmarlowe** · 08-09-2010, 20:06

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

Depends... will they give a damm about threats to our interests around the globe?

Just thought I'd correct that for you

**Semper_Flexibilis** · 08-09-2010, 20:18

Originally Posted by Micawber

I'm a Guardian reader - .

Most people wouldn't brag about that. It's somewhere between peado and merchant banker in the gutter scale

**Le_addeur_noir** · 08-09-2010, 20:26

Originally Posted by Micawber

Taking a bit of a punt here, but just imagining you are familiar with the selection of daily national newspapers available which one would you recommend as a well written, intelligent read, and why?

My first choice would be the Daily Telegraph.Not neccessarly because it is good,but it is the least downmarket.Following that the Times.

The tabloids you can forget and the Independent is also too left-wing for my tastes.

**Micawber** · 08-09-2010, 20:45

I'm a Telegraph refugee, as it happens. It was a great paper, personified by Bill Deedes died,I think it's general standard fell off a cliff when those two wierdos bought it and now
It is run by exD Mail writers and staffers and it really shows.

The Times is just too small to do justice to decent stories. When the small version rang alongside the broadsheet for a while
I knew one of the journoes who explained how the copy had to be filleted so it would fit, now all we have are the short stories.

I don't understand this fixation of having to agree with the columnists before you buy a paper,
most of the stories are'nt political anyway.

The G is well written, intelligent, splits news clearly from comment, has great pics and is, despite what people who do not read it think, very
strong and articulate in its support for service personnell.

I buy the DTel every Saturday for the crossword, and each time I read it my Mon to Fri choice of the Guardian
Is re-inforced.

**rampant** · 08-09-2010, 20:49

Originally Posted by Micawber

I'm a Telegraph refugee, as it happens. It was a great paper, personified by Bill Deedes died,I think it's general standard fell off a cliff when those two wierdos bought it and now
It is run by exD Mail writers and staffers and it really shows.

The Times is just too small to do justice to decent stories. When the small version rang alongside the broadsheet for a while
I knew one of the journoes who explained how the copy had to be filleted so it would fit, now all we have are the short stories.

I don't understand this fixation of having to agree with the columnists before you buy a paper,
most of the stories are'nt political anyway.

The G is well written, intelligent, splits news clearly from comment, has great pics and is, despite what people who do not read it think, very
strong and articulate in its support for service personnell.

I buy the DTel every Saturday for the crossword, and each time I read it my Mon to Fri choice of the Guardian
Is re-inforced.

Don't really have much to add to that, well said, I only wish that they could get Fisk to move across from the Indy.

**RatsCoffeeDrinker** · 08-09-2010, 20:53

Originally Posted by Ashie..

Do we really need anything more than what is sufficient for foreign peace keeping duties now we have tied the knot with our European partners.

Tell me, if we'd had a partnering / sharing relationship with the French in 1982, do you think they'd have sent the Charles de Gaulle into the South Atlantic to give us a hand? Or perhaps make an excuse zut alors, ze reactor, she is 'aving a bad day! and then continued to sell Exocets to the Argies.

Mong.