h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

So if you would be a Guardian reader, what are you, and what's stopping you???

It actually refers to something someone said at work. I walked in with said newspaper under my arm, and he said that he knew that was the paper I would read. I hate being predictable.

So I am a Guardian reader, though I have been known to buy the Indy. And sometimes, the Morning Star...

I find myself more and more these days reading the morning star and only getting the guardian for the crossword.

I like it. The media section on a Monday is particularly useful, especially with my course. Toynbee and Preston annoy me, but Monbiot, Younge, and Klein are all good commentators. And it has a kind of self-deprecation type of humour. It's certainly the most commonly bought paper amongst my classmates

I read the middle, the International news - that's good. And i read the culture pages, that's entertaining. And i do the crossword, that's a bedtime ritual with the better 'arf.

But the quality of comment has gone down loads.

I'm a Guardian-reader, but not by choice. My dad buys it. I like the Indy because it is more open-minded that the Guardian, but the Indy's writing is pretty bad.

I don't like Poly Toynbee much. A C Grayling's "The Last Word" column was rubbish. It pretended to be discussing a concept and ended up shoving a political opinion down your throat (example - The Last Word on Change condensed "Change is inevitable in any society, some people welcome it, some people don't want it. People who don't want it are often stupid. Like anyone who doesn't want the Euro. Let's all vote Yes in the referendum". F**k off, Grayling!. George Monbiot is interesting, but a bit predictable. I like Julie Burchill, I often disagree with her, but she's very much her own woman and often thought-provoking. Mark Lawson sometimes writes for them and he's a better columnist than cultural pundit (although that wouldn't take much ). I like Charlie Brooker's Screen Burn. Jacques Peretti's column is annoying and I suspect he may be one of the people Nathan Barley (see TV Go Home) is based on.

Of course, Steve Bell is always ace

Steve Bell rocks. I love his chimp-like Dubya and his "evil eye" Blair.

And who can forget John Major and those underpants

The best thing about the Guardian is Mil MIllington's "Things my girlfried and i argue about". There is more politics in that collumn than in the whole of the news section.

Mil Millington also writes for The Weekly - link on my space