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The Spectator has - generally high quality writing - a quirky (but data driven) approach - a longer history than any other magazine - a UK focus - a right wing

The Spectator has - generally high quality writing - a quirky (but data driven) approach - a longer history than any other magazine - a UK focus - a right wing bent, but with plenty of left wing ( or apolitical) writers for balance. Might be a solution? I gave up on the Economist after 20years 20 years ago, for much the same reasons you state!

pjc50 4y ago
The Spectator is hyper-partisan nonsense that will make you less well informed. I can't imagine who the "left wing" writers on it are supposed to be?
- vixen99 4y ago
  With a strong statement like that it would be helpful if you could provide an example or two that makes your point.
- kolp 4y ago
  >>I can't imagine who the "left wing" writers on it are supposed to be? Rod Liddle - his brain is addled by the booze, but he still manages to phone in a few hundred words each fortnight.
nivenkos 4y ago
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-brexit-looks-like/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-brexit-looks-like/ Just objectively that has turned out to be complete nonsense...
- Tomte 4y ago
  If you insist on "your newspaper" always to be right, you don't have many options, and not for long.
- sgu999 4y ago
  Any recommendation of a fair description of the impact of Brexit on the UK and why it's not desirable? Asking as an EU citizen who keeps hearing all day how much these Brits are struggling without the rest of us.
  - rjsw 4y ago
    The effects of it are still working through the UK economy. The one group that had a valid, if selfish, reason to vote for it was people in low paid jobs. Employers are complaining that they can't recruit but don't want to increase the pay offered for the posts they can't fill. Lots of strikes planned by groups that have seen their pay fail to keep up with inflation.
matthewmacleod 4y ago
If someone's complaint about The Economist includes that it is engaging in too much "narrative manipulation", suggesting The Spectator as an alternative is verging on performance art.

pjc50 4y ago

The Spectator is hyper-partisan nonsense that will make you less well informed. I can't imagine who the "left wing" writers on it are supposed to be?

vixen99 4y ago
With a strong statement like that it would be helpful if you could provide an example or two that makes your point.
kolp 4y ago
>>I can't imagine who the "left wing" writers on it are supposed to be? Rod Liddle - his brain is addled by the booze, but he still manages to phone in a few hundred words each fortnight.

nivenkos 4y ago

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-brexit-looks-like/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/what-brexit-looks-like/ Just objectively that has turned out to be complete nonsense...

Tomte 4y ago
If you insist on "your newspaper" always to be right, you don't have many options, and not for long.
sgu999 4y ago
Any recommendation of a fair description of the impact of Brexit on the UK and why it's not desirable? Asking as an EU citizen who keeps hearing all day how much these Brits are struggling without the rest of us.
- rjsw 4y ago
  The effects of it are still working through the UK economy. The one group that had a valid, if selfish, reason to vote for it was people in low paid jobs. Employers are complaining that they can't recruit but don't want to increase the pay offered for the posts they can't fill. Lots of strikes planned by groups that have seen their pay fail to keep up with inflation.

matthewmacleod 4y ago

If someone's complaint about The Economist includes that it is engaging in too much "narrative manipulation", suggesting The Spectator as an alternative is verging on performance art.