what's the *worst* lefty paper?

[kasheem]

Is The Morning Star any good? I see it being sold everywhere in corner shops, must be popular. Never read a lefty rag yet.

 

[boxinghefner]

Is The Morning Star any good? I see it being sold everywhere in corner shops, must be popular. Never read a lefty rag yet.

It's fine enough, largely news-stories and sometimes articles from left labour MPs and their friends.

 

[Chuck Wilson]

'Newsline', the Workers Revolutionary Party newspaper, is really quite bad.

As is 'Workers' - the paper of the Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist).

And I can't read 'Socialist Worker' no matter how hard I might try.

Sometimes it helps if you put a ruler underneath the words........

 

[justuname]

Older posters may recall anorgancalled "News On Sunday" a popularist left-wing tabloid in the late 80s.

I only have a dim recollection so cant say how good /bad it was for sure, but it bombed pretty sharpish.

Does this ring any nostalgic bells?

There's a book about News on Sunday called 'Disaster' that's brilliant, really funny. I think it quickly panicked at low circulation and ran a sex scandal about a tory mp. Pilger might have been able to save it but they wouldn't let him.