The Daily Telegraph

I read the Telegraph on a daily basis. I do this for several reasons, mostly as I like to read a paper in the mornings before heading off to work. The Telegraph also has the best sports section of any UK national newspaper in the absence of a specialist sports newspaper (as in various European countries). I also tend to agree with most of the right wing leanings, especially over individual's freedom, reducing the level of state interference in daily lives, and a healthy dose of Euroscepticism. However, I suspect that I am not the Telegraph's target readership: the Sunday supplements and more personal columns in it always amuse me as they assume that all readers are all of the following:

• they live in a city (specifically London as no others exist)
  
• they work in the City earning at least £75k plus bonuses
  
• they own considerable land in the countryside which they visit occasionally to watch their hoses race
  
• they employ domestic help (who assumedly read the Sun)
  
• they vote, have always voted and will always vote for the Conservatives
  
• their wives are interested in tweed fashions

The weekend supplements are the worst for this. I can cope with the political bias as its sometimes so blatant as to be laughable. In a similar way to the Socialist Worker, you know what you are getting. The Times tries a bit too hard to disguise the fact that its the same as the Sun (i.e., Murdoch's mouthpiece).

Still, the Telegraph is far better than the Times (never seems to have anything in it), the Guardian (so woolly it may as well be farmed), the Independent (best of the rest but too careful to be neutral), the Mail (aimed at Tory wife and too opinionated), the Express (er - see the Mail but less in it), the Mirror (no comment), the Sun (sometimes unintentionally amusing) and the other fish and chip wrappers.