Thorough and absorbing (The Observer)

Member Name: doctordarke2389

Product:	The Observer
Date:	19/08/09 (4 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Readable, and interesting topics

Disadvantages: Sabre-rattles a bit much sometimes

If I'm going to observe (!) the time - honoured British Sunday ritual of traipsing to the newsagents to purchase a paper, it will usually be the Observer that accompanies me back to my abode past occasionally sun-dappled, leafy arbours and scum-flecked roadside puddles.

So, with a nice mug of Earl Grey and my comfy slippers back on, I can settle down to digest the happenings both parochially national and grandly global. In addition, I may wish to make my way through the many glossy supplements that can improve my health (mental and physical), take me off to pristine beaches and azure seas, or perhaps introduce me to some gastronomic delight to titillate and tease my trembling palate. This, the Observer can do as well as any other Sunday broadsheet.

The Observer's writers are of the decidedly leftie-weftie sort, you know, what our Transatlantic cousins call pinko Socialist crypto-Commie NHS-lovin' cheese-eating surrender hacks, closely allied to the similarly - denounced French sort whose earlier ancestors helped a nascent American Republic in their war of independence. Oh, the delights of air - brushed history.

Having just written that, the Observer is really an archetypal Sunday offering that takes some time to read given the sheer quantity of information given. Good, absorbing columns from the likes of Will Hutton, Andrew Rawnsley and Nick Cohen; well - written and thought - provoking, and faily rounded in terms of the breadth of topics covered. Didn't take much to its near blanket support of our war - mongering in the Middle East, though. Not my scene - man.

Not to eveyone's liking, but comforting in that peculiarly affected English way. Still, if it's not your bag, there's always the Sunday Sport if you like a good laugh ...

Summary: An alternative to most other Sunday stuff