| You can certainly deal with Guardian objection (b) by moving to continental Europe and buying the international edition. A bit drastic, I know. I enjoy reading it every day here without often agreeing with the editorial stance - but I rather dislike the UK edition. Not sure what I would read if I were back in Blighty, to be honest. I find all the UK papers a bit too full of "cat up tree in Basildon" sort of stories, but maybe that is because I am not living there any more (UK: I don't even know where Basildon is!).
The Telegraph might have good international coverage, but I honestly don't know: can't bring myself to buy it, though I do look at the website most days. Today it excels itself by exhorting the government to waste a load of your money (not mine: I don't pay UK taxes any more) on a referendum on a constitution for Europe which is already dead in the water. Barking, if you ask me! (Isn't that somewhere towards Basildon?)
I'd probably do something radical like go back to the International Herald Tribune. It can be a bit long winded and certainly offers an American perspective on the world, but its editorial line is relatively liberal, which suits me, and its reporting is of extremely high quality (though you wouldn't go there for an incisive cricket report). Particularly valued is its ability to separate reporting from editorial, something in which The Times used to lead the way, but a separation which seems to have become increasingly blurred in all UK news media (and I include the BBC domestic services in that: listen to Andrew Marr's "reports" for the R4 Six O'Clock News sometimes) over the last decade or so.
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