What Are the Best European News Sources?

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The four mainstream UK newspapers (most of the tabloids are dreck, aside from weirdly enough the MoS) all have flaws. The Times certainly feels like a paper steeped in tradition, but it like all papers have cheapened themselves. Would a reputable paper feel confident hiring horrible people like AA Gill?

The Torygraph and the Graun are hiding in the gutter at the moment (with the telegraph chasing the MailOnline audience and American radicals; while CiF plumbs pretty shameful depths to grab the MOther Jones crowd). The former is also owned by the Barclay Bros. - newspaper magnates that make Murdoch look like a saint. That leaves the Independent, which I've always found incredibly tedious and sanctimonious.

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In brighter news the New Standard has vastly improved from when it was owned by arch-Blairites in the Noughties.

The Economist also has very good science/tech articles for a general audience, and they can present interesting world news. As long as you take their 'advice' with a whiff of caution - they have very one-track minds...

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Weirdly enough the indie's cheap partner, the i, is infinitely more readable and enjoyable than its sister paper.

I'd also recommend Private Eye, which if overrated and with a tendency to distrust authority for the sake of it (Hislop has never really apologised for the magazine's terrible behaviour during the MMR crisis), has some of the more intriguing whistleblowing journalism in the countrY.