London Papers

[liadnan]

The war for the London local newspaper-reading audience between Murdoch and Associated Newspapers (with special guest appearance by Ken Livingstone) doesn't really interest me much, because they're all shite, free or otherwise. The only local newspapers worth reading in London are the real local ones, West End Extra and the Camden New Journal and similar, or the Ham & High if you insist on paying. As Martin pointed out a few days ago "If the Standard is the Daily Mail with the bigotry partially sawn off to make it palatable for a cosmopolitan audience and the Metro is the Standard with the news sawn off to make it palatable for the tube then Lite stuffs the sweepings off the floor of Heat into the Metro." (Actually I have a vague memory of Joff and Brendan originally developing this line of argument ages ago.) It only remains to add that thelondonpaper is also shite. And don't even start me on the nationals, tabloid or broadsheet, we could usefully lose the lot as far as I'm concerned.

Still, I almost bought the real Standard on coming out of the Tube just now. It's difficult to resist when the headline on the boards is "Double Life of Evil Architect". Fabulous. I mean, what do evil architects do? Design mobius stairways? (Or to look at the question another way, aren't all architects evil by definition?)

But I resisted. In the end, it's more fun not to know.

In other news, I am semi-reliably informed by A Man I sort of trust that my laptop motherboard is slightly fried due to a rubbish fan. This is really not good, and for a start means I can almost certainly kiss goodbye to any ideas about further holidays before spring.

Comments

[ninebelow.livejournal.com]

It's difficult to resist when the headline on the boards is "Double Life of Evil Architect"

I also almost succumbed to this.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

In the end, it's more fun not to know.

Now *I* want to know!

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

It's been a steep decline since the demise of Bunty. Where are the blind ballerinas of yesteryear?

[liadnan]

Lost, all lost.

How are you by the way?

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

Oh, things are much, much better, thanks. I'm back in Oxford and temping, so I have no job security but I no longer wish to cut my throat rather than walk into my office.

[liadnan]

Glad to hear it. Hope to see you soonish.