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• Yorkieflyer says:

  2 Sep2 September 05:14

  But if the Torygraph is your thing you can read it for free with PressReader courtesy of your local library

• Andrew H says:

  2 Sep2 September 06:03

  Telegraph? No thanks. It has some of the most repugnant and ignorant commentators anywhere in the press. Allison Pearson anyone?

  Sport is about the only thing it is good for now – I’d be tempted by the sport only offer, but I don’t want to fund that rag.

  • mradey says:

    2 Sep2 September 06:53

    Yawn…. . . . .

    • Andrew H says:

      2 Sep2 September 07:23

      Each to their own.

      My favourite Allison Pearson moment was seeing her on “celebrity” University Challenge. Even with the simpler questions she didn’t say a thing all show. But what she writes shows she is a truly awful human being, as well as not being very bright.

      • jj says:

        2 Sep2 September 08:30

        Andrew H – can I ask you to reflect on your description of a Alison ‘a truly awful human being, as well as not being very bright’? How do you think it affects the way that you are viewed by other HfP readers, for example?

        • Oh! Matron! says:

          2 Sep2 September 08:40

          He appears to be in the majority, so…… And as for Allison Pearson: Worked for the Daily Mail too.

        • J says:

          2 Sep2 September 09:13

          I doubt too many would disagree with him.

        • John says:

          2 Sep2 September 10:42

          Andrew H sounds like an intelligent and sensible person to me, if you’re interested in anecdotal evidence from other HfP readers 😂

        • David says:

          2 Sep2 September 11:30

          I’d say it reflects quite well on his character. She’s a public person and this is very much the persona she creates for herself.

      • Char Char says:

        2 Sep2 September 10:05

        What exactly ?

        She seems to write a lot of articles that everyone else is too politically correct to even contemplate.

        • jj says:

          2 Sep2 September 11:05

          John, I’m sure that Andrew H is an intelligent and sensible person, which is why I suggested that he might want to reflect on a comment that was probably made in haste. For example, saying that Alison Pearson has written some truly awful things (although I have no idea what those things might be) would have been very different from saying that she is a truly awful human being.

          We really don’t need to be personally nasty to get a point across.

        • ken says:

          2 Sep2 September 11:31

          She has advocated internment in her words for “thousands of suspects”, meaning muslims.

          As well as being a gross abuse of state power it was proven to be counterproductive in Northern Ireland and would almost certainly be so again.

          Thick as mince, awful human being.

        • Char Char says:

          2 Sep2 September 12:22

          @ken you need to provide more context to validate the ‘awful’ remark

        • ken says:

          2 Sep2 September 14:03

          I’m not sure what more context there is to add.

          She advocated internment for thousands of (almost entirely) UK citizens in the UK on the basis of the terrorist attack in Manchester.

          We rightly excoriate regions round the world where this happens, yet she wants it to happen here.
          Internment everywhere always leads to torture of at least some of those detained.

          The thick bit comes from the fact that it would inevitably make the situation worse and be the best recruiting sergeant terrorism ever had.

  • Andrew says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:01

    I understand that ,”The Sunday Sport” along with its midweek counterpart are still available if you are looking for a politically neutral sports focussed newspaper.

    Haven’t seen an Amex offer for it though.

    • Andrew H says:

      2 Sep2 September 07:24

      The Sport has had some of the best front pages recently. They’ve really nailed this joke of a government on occasion.

  • Paul Pogba says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:39

    If ignorance is your thing you should check out the guardian.

    • David says:

      2 Sep2 September 11:32

      You could argue it takes a certain level of ignorance to even think such a thing 😀

      • ThePenguin says:

        2 Sep2 September 22:21

        Clearly not Liberal minded to even suggest such a thing in jest!

  • Char Char says:

    2 Sep2 September 10:03

    Just because a person is not your cup of tea, you shouldn’t assume that everyone else agrees with you, I don’t see any bad things put out by Allison Pearson at all.

    • Ian says:

      2 Sep2 September 10:48

      You’re in the minority

    • David says:

      2 Sep2 September 11:29

      Oh dear, she appears to be a rather bitter, nasty and inflammatory individual based on what I’ve seen of her writing.

      • Rob says:

        2 Sep2 September 11:59

        Who wouldn’t offer to be if offered six figures per year for a few hours work per week?!

        • David says:

          2 Sep2 September 13:40

          Me, and plenty others I’d hope.

    • Andrew H says:

      2 Sep2 September 12:11

      I don’t assume that everyone agrees with me.

      What she says about Covid is wrong and dangerous

      What she says about immigration, well… finding much of what she writes about that as being obscene is not “political correctness”

      • Char Char says:

        2 Sep2 September 12:27

        Obviously not everything is going to be about ““political correctness”

        Perhaps her views of Covid are different to yours but I’d like to see them actually be proven wrong rather than being different to the majority and ‘selected’ data.

• Roger says:

  2 Sep2 September 06:29

  Use local library card and avoid all subscription cost

  • John says:

    2 Sep2 September 06:41

    Or just get it free anyway using sites which are often linked from reddit.

  • Andrew H says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:29

    I like to subscribe to papers as someone has to pay for quality journalism…

    I used to subscribe to the Telegraph, then the Times, but they (especially the Telegraph) and me have moved in opposite directions. Maybe it’s just me though…

    Still get the Times through Apple News subscription.

    • Susan says:

      2 Sep2 September 08:08

      +1

    • GenX says:

      4 Sep4 September 10:52

      Thanks Andrew H for reminding about the Apple News+. To me £10 a month is definitely worth it.

• Emma says:

  2 Sep2 September 06:54

  Did anyone get the free £200 spend in restaurant offer?

  • Rob says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:35

    Covered yesterday if you scroll down the home page.

  • L Allen says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:07

    Yes! I have a booking at Lyle’s in a couple of weeks so that’s a free dinner – perfect timing! I was hoping there’d be more choice than just the Ivy in Glasgow. There’s so many good restaurants up there.

• Paul says:

  2 Sep2 September 06:56

  I am genuinely surprised at the negative views expressed on the Torygraph on HfP. But it is early in the day and it’s core readership won’t be awake for a few more hours😛

  • Andrew H says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:20

    Excellent point. And how many of its core readership have the internet?

    I used to subscribe to it.. but it’s just unreadable now. It’s the Mail but with longer words. Actually it’s worse than the Mail, as the Mail doesn’t pretend..

    My 89 year old Mum reads the Telegraph but takes the Mail “for balance”… (she doesn’t have the internet – I am her online shopping portal)

  • Mike says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:41

    I have just woken up – and I am a loyal Torygraph supporter. Real hard copy newspaper for me though rather some digital version

  • Susan says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:12

    HfP readers always strike me as intellectually curious, informed and well-intentioned. None of which are traits I now associate with the Telegraph.

    • John says:

      2 Sep2 September 08:42

      No UK paper, perhaps with the exception of the FT (with regards to finance only) possesses these traits

    • James says:

      2 Sep2 September 11:59

      +1

    • ThePenguin says:

      2 Sep2 September 22:25

      HFP readers always strike me as intolerant to the EXTREME just listen to the names they call people who refuse to think as they think!

  • Rob says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:34

    It is fundamentally poor though. I am a fan of The Times and Sunday Times, despite not being my thing politically, because they have huge budgets and it comes through in the content. They generally play down their political affiliations. Neither of these apply to the Telegraph.

    • Harry T says:

      2 Sep2 September 17:13

      The Telegraph is rubbish for most stuff – their opinion pieces are written by low IQ bigots/trolls for the most part – but they are usually at the level of precognition when it comes to travel news at the moment. The hotel reviews are pretty good too.

      Before anyone calls me a liberal, I also think the guardian has significantly deteriorated recently and they are just as biased and bigoted as the Telegraph.

      • ThePenguin says:

        2 Sep2 September 22:28

        “their opinion pieces are written by low IQ bigots/trolls” – Well, I think you have made it abundantly clear that you are not liberal at all!

• TeesTraveller says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:13

  Just a word of warning, these newspaper subscriptions can be difficult to cancel. They normally involve calling up (no online cancellation) and a 15 minute discussion with a retentions team. Unsurprisingly, you don’t read about this in the press…

  • Colin says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:35

    Yep the Times is a pain…. in fairness Telegraph was just one click to cancel

  • Matt says:

    2 Sep2 September 07:39

    Not with the gift subscription. It just expires.

• BuildBackBetter says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:19

  Any print offers that can be used?

• Colin says:

  2 Sep2 September 07:34

  Had the student ( legit university account). £25-£20 = £5 deal last year.. it was worth it ( ie worth 10p per week) but didn’t feel warranted much more. ( already have FT)

  They tried to renewal at £140 pa.

  Assume I Could easily setup using a different email as a new customer ( student deal is via a code) but when one card offered me £12 cash back I decided against it, but then the £20 deal dropped into Amex Business Gold., so tried . and the system didn’t like the card.

  • The Streets says:

    2 Sep2 September 08:03

    Where did it say that they will renew at £140? I have the telegraph student subscription from last year and in ‘My Account’ it says it will renew at the £25 rate. Now i just need to update the card details with another Amex holding this deal

    • Colin says:

      2 Sep2 September 08:52

      Yes I assumed the same but when I logged in to cancel
      “Colin, stay with us and save over 40%
      Keep your unlimited website access and daily digital newspaper, plus share a bonus subscription with a friend. Just £140 for the entire year, price increases thereafter.”

      Now perhaps it would have renewed at £25 but seems poor admin if their retention offer was +£115

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