I hardly ever buy newspapers these days, I just read their websites. The gains are probably greater than the losses: I used to take the Guardian and hardly ever see the others, now I get to read a range of British and foreign papers. The one exception I make is the weekend edition of the Financial Times. In fact, the FT, in its Saturday version is my nomination for the best English-language paper in the world. I love it, as every copy brings pleasurable reading. Today’s was a special treat as it contains “a conversation”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/cb8506f6-9e60-11de-b0aa-00144feabdc0.html between one of my favourite journalists (Lucy Kellaway) and Nick Hornby (about whom it is hard to avoid having warm, friendly feelings, even if he is an Arsenal fan). Also, check out “Simone Baribeau’s account”:http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f64a9e36-9da3-11de-9f4a-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=a712eb94-dc2b-11da-890d-0000779e2340.html of working to sell overpriced houses to poor people during the bubble, whilst knowing that you are doing wrong but feeling unable to quit because of the need to fund dental treatment. I think I could post half a dozen more links to today’s edition, but just go and buy it (if in the UK) or browse away (especially the Arts and Leisure section).
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Maria 09.12.09 at 1:13 pm
Here here! The weekend FT is a weekly treat. It’s a shame they’ve cut down on the book reviews, but there is still a decent amount of them.
In the property section, there’s nearly always an interesting cover feature and I love Secret Agent, with his stories of selling 9-bed Kensington pads and office romance. Though it has gone off the boil a bit over the summer.
Now if only they’d get rid of that pseud on the back page, creme brulee or whatever he calls himself.
andthenyoufall 09.12.09 at 7:45 pm
And now for something completely different. Have comment threads been scrubbed from older posts on CT? I know there was a link to an article on K. Arrow and Goedel in the comments on Kieran’s post about “The Parallax View,” but I can’t find that thread’s comments, nor the article in question.
aretino 09.12.09 at 10:23 pm
The Baribeau piece isn’t in the American edition, it seems.
I’m actually pretty fond of the back page of the finance section on Monday, when they’re free from having to cover stories on the market moves of the previous day.
Of course, Gillian Tett alone makes Friday’s FT worthwhile.
aretino 09.12.09 at 10:25 pm
I should make it clear that I read the print edition in the US, which is actually pretty easy to come by in major cities.
Matthew 09.13.09 at 7:16 pm
Get rid of Tyler? In my household we stump up the £2.50/edition largely because of him. The rest is good though.
Jim Birch 09.14.09 at 3:47 am
What is it about financial newspaper? I’m in Australia so I don’t get read the FT but the only newspaper I can bear to read regularly is the weekend and Friday editions of the Financial Review. Does this apply elsewhere? I’m not particularly interested in financial news though I do follow economic news.
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