Guardian - Weekly Edition

The Guardian Weekly is a joint project between French Le Monde, US Washington Post, and British The Guardian/The Observer. These newspapers are directed towards the educated middle-class. There is a strong tendency towards analysis, sometimes quite opinionated. That said, I do like The Guardian when I lived in the UK it was about the only newspaper that was readable. The other main newspapers either belonged to Rupert Murdoch (Times, Sun) or were dry as tinder (Independent, Telegraph). The Guardian write in an educated readable way, and depsite it is a bit left-leaning it is well balanced and concerned with real news, not gossip and sensationalism. It has a strong stance on global issues, and therefore it was obvious that it should be involved in a project like this.

The GUARDIAN WEEKLY contains a compilation of some of the best coverage taken from the previous week's daily editions of The GUARDIAN, The OBSERVER, LE MONDE and the WASHINGTON POST. The publication's format remains basically the same as when I first read it as The MANCHESTER GUARDIAN WEEKLY in 1956.

A recent issue contained news articles on a variety of topics from Syria's possible troop withdrawal from Lebanon to an account of a football game between Manchester United and Crystal Palace. The edition also included many news capsules from around the world as well as much comment and analysis on diverse subjects. Two pages were devoted to book reviews.

The quality of writing in the GUARDIAN WEEKLY is consistently high. The bias seems to be slightly to the left. I recommend it mostly because of its interesting worldview and the excellence of its reporting.

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Great information when it arrives. Like a London bus some weeks you get no copy some you get two. When you ring to complain (which I have 3 times in the last 6 weeks) they have no record of your previous complaints, they blame the US post, they dont reply to requests to speak to a superior, and they wont credit you an extra copy. Basically taking no responsibility. I've had it. I'm discontinuing my subscription. There's so much you can get online why should anyone put up with old technology.

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I bought this subscription for my wife. After a long (but acceptable) wait the first issue finally arrived. She loved it. A week later nothing more came. Two and three weeks passed without another copy of the Guardian. I gave a call to the number on the paper and they told me that the subscription was suspended. They had no explanation why, only an apology that it was suspended and they reactivated it while I was on the phone. Then they told me that the subscription would expire in 8 months. When I asked why so soon they said the subscription was marked for 45 weeks but at the same time they could see that it was a year long subscription! Again no explanation could be offered. But this time they had to send it up the food chain before it could be resolved. They didn't even ask for a contact number or email address to let me know when the problem was resolved. I had to ask for that too!

I game them two stars because we love the content of the paper. But you'd better be aggressive in managing your subscription because these guys seem to have their heads up their a@$#s.

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I wish every intelligent person in the US would read this newspaper. We devour it, savor it. It gives us news we never hear about in American newspapers. It probably gives fits to conservative right-wingers--all the more reason to read it.

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