Online UK news - which ones do you recommend?

[Book Lover]

What do you folks consider the best source for UK news? Over the course of a week I read the BBC, the Guardian and Telegraph, but what are the non-mainstream sources I don't know about?

[muriel_volestrangler]

1. For any news that's IT related, The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/

It covers IT news from all around the world, but is British based, and will cover anything vaguely IT-related in Britain (especially if they can get a joke out of it - but their facts are serious), or indeed science (they have stories on the space shuttle and cloning on their front page now).

They are very good for things like coverage of the national ID database proposed by the Blair government.

[Book Lover]

2. I do have the Register in my bookmarks

But then again, I have 150+ bookmarks... Thanks for reminding me of them :-)

[mr blur]

3. Guardian, Independent and BBC

I wouldn't trust the Telegraph to tell me what day it was without it telling me that days were much longer, brighter and better back when the Tories were in power.

But then, I'm a Commie Pinko Leftist...

[Book Lover]

5. Is that why

they talk about the royal family so much? I suppose it's good to know what the other side is saying, though...

[Donald Ian Rankin]

13. I don't mind the Telegraph, actually.

It's a far-right publication, but it's honest about it and doesn't make any pretence at neutrality, and generally the quality of the reporting is adequate and the quality of the writing is high.

The ones I really can't stand are the tabloids - Sun, News of the World, Express and so on, and especially the Daily Mail.

[Anarcho-Socialist]

4. Channel Four has a good news site

http://www.channel4.com/news

[non sociopath skin]

6. Yes to the above.

Plus The New Statesman - roughly the equivalent of "The Nation" in the States - has helpful background and comment although, unfortunately, a lot of the good stuff is subscriber only.

http://www.newstatesman.com/nssubsfilter.php3?newTemplate=NSArticle_NS&newDisplayURN=200505300003

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[T_i_B]

7. I used to post a lot of stuff from there...

...but the subscriber only thing eventually made that unfeasible. I could post the link to it's RW equivalent, the Spectator so everyone can gawp at the pro-Bush ravings of Mark Steyn in all their glory but instead I will just say that the Grauniad, Torygraph, Independent and BBC all do very well for me.

[non sociopath skin]

8. The Spectator is going down the subscribers only path too..

... a shame as, after Viz and the Beano, it was my favourite comic.

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[Anarcho-Socialist]

9. Boris Johnson was too over the top as a cartoon character n/t

[non sociopath skin]

10. Kind of like Rupert the Bear on speed. LOL LOL

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[muriel_volestrangler]

11. An X-rated comic

given the amount of extra-marital nooky they were up to (somehow, 'nooky' seems the right term for The Spectator :-) )

[Book Lover]

12. I think I like their subscriber scheme

Not necessarily the rates, but the 24-hour/1 month/3 months/1 year model seems sustainable, at least to this publishing wonk.