It's always amusing to judge newspapers

by reference to their (pretty distant) pasts.

This for example, from wiki, re the Guardian:

Post-war: "The paper's then editor, A.P. Wadsworth, so loathed Labour's left-wing champion Aneurin Bevan, who had made a reference to getting rid of "Tory Vermin" in a speech "and the hate-gospellers of his entourage" that it encouraged readers to vote Conservative and remove Attlee's post-war Labour government. The newspaper opposed the creation of the National Health Service as it feared the state provision of healthcare would "eliminate selective elimination" and lead to an increase of congenitally deformed and feckless people."

Completely irrelevant to my view of the newspaper in its current form, but still, I think we're probably better off agreeing with Roy Greenslade (warning - link to the Guardian - User Posted Link

Posted By: paulg, Feb 1, 14:03:11