How can you maximise the American Express ‘£20 back on £25 Daily Telegraph spend’ offer?

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• John says:

  2 Sep2 September 08:09

  A subscription would still be overpriced at £5.

• Oliver says:

  2 Sep2 September 08:16

  I’d rather not give any money to the torygraph

• G says:

  2 Sep2 September 09:01

  Would rather this newspaper and it’s outdated die out than it get any of my money. I assume circulation is declining steadily (if it were rising they wouldn’t have stopped publishing figures last year), so shouldn’t be too long…

• Freddy says:

  2 Sep2 September 09:07

  Geniune question – what do you sophisticated readers read for your daily news?

  • J says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:08

    The FT stands alone these days.

    • John says:

      2 Sep2 September 09:12

      +1 for FT.

      Honourable mention for a new weekly, Byline Times.

    • Andrew H says:

      2 Sep2 September 12:19

      Agree, the FT is probably the best. Interesting that one of the few decent commentators at the Telegraph, Peter Foster, is now at the FT. I guess he didn’t fit in, not toeing the Brexit party line at the Telegraph – some of the rubbish they come out with now about Brexit wouldn’t be out of place in the Express – the paper that claims “EU on the brink” almost weekly.

      Managed to get 50% off FT recently, but missed the money off Amex offer…

      Also read Guardian, Times and NYT. Follow most papers on twitter so see their headlines pop up…

  • Cats are best says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:22

    International New York Times (successor to the Herald Trib)

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      2 Sep2 September 10:05

      +1 for NYT. Obviously they lean left but their non-politics articles are very good.

  • TimM says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:36

    In the UK there are two first-class bastions of journalism: the FT and the Guardian. They lean different ways but both remain brutally truthful and informative. The Guardian online remains free and I check it several times a day.

    • Rhys says:

      2 Sep2 September 09:39

      The Guardian can write some utter junk these days too, though. It’s my main paper but even I sometimes wonder what they’re smoking…

      • Jan M says:

        2 Sep2 September 11:46

        Completely agree. That stupid alpaca saga shows the utter bankruptcy of the UK press. The FT exempted.

    • Paul Pogba says:

      2 Sep2 September 09:47

      The Guardian has been increasingly awful since Rusbridger left. I used to buy it in print from before I left school and read it religiously online until a few years ago but it’s become a left wing Daily Mail. It’s hysterical and detached from reality.

      The best content now is on Substack.

      • BuildBackBetter says:

        2 Sep2 September 10:07

        Well said – ‘left wing DM’.

    • BuildBackBetter says:

      2 Sep2 September 10:04

      Lol, one panders to remain supporters trashing uk wherever possible while the other is dipping it’s toes in extreme left wing agenda.

    • ken says:

      2 Sep2 September 11:36

      I like the Guardian but its journalists have been decimated in the last 3 years (actually more like triple decimated).

      The economics editor, Larry Elliott, is a marxist barmpot.

  • Mike says:

    2 Sep2 September 10:54

    Daily Telegraph

  • Yorkieflyer says:

    2 Sep2 September 12:05

    The Times and Sunday Times are much more credible organs

  • WaynedP says:

    2 Sep2 September 12:33

    If by “sophisticated” you mean poor souls genuinely trying to discern truly sensible commentary in a post-truth society, then I would hazard a guess that most look to several sources for their current affairs, recognising that every publication has its own bias to some degree.

    Personally, L’Osservatore Romano helps to keep me sane – the only daily periodical I know of that celebrates diversity of personal opinion in its masthead.

  • Harry T says:

    2 Sep2 September 17:14

    The FT and the Economist. I also read the NY Times – liberal bias but they do their research and produce quality journalism.

  • ThePenguin says:

    2 Sep2 September 22:29

    The Guardian and only the Guardian all day long!

• Chris K says:

  2 Sep2 September 09:10

  Good morning Comrades!

  How heartening it is to read your comments this morning. I, too, had been sitting in the First Wing on a Tier Point run contemplating the best way to overthrow Bourgois capitalism and fight the climate crisis.

  Not using a Telegraph offer on your Amex card is inspired.

  • Alexander J. says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:18

    Fortunately a spectrum of political views are available.

  • Andrew says:

    2 Sep2 September 12:07

    Why are you sitting in the First Wing? The First Wing is a check-in area and security lane.

  • WaynedP says:

    2 Sep2 September 12:37

    Comment of the week 😆

    • The Savage Squirrel says:

      2 Sep2 September 13:39

      I loved it too 🤣

• L Allen says:

  2 Sep2 September 09:13

  I subscribe to the Grauniad and the Torygraph as I like to see different perspectives on the same stories. What annoys me most about the TG is their nagging to share my subscription. They must be desperate for readers.

  • Pete M says:

    2 Sep2 September 09:17

    +1 and throw in some Private Eye!

• RussellH says:

  2 Sep2 September 09:42

  When I saw the headline I was hoping for something similar to the Deliveroo Charity deal written up a couple of months ago: maybe pay the Grope (as one of my mother’s colleagues always used to call it) £25 to fund the Trussell Trust and get £20 refunded.
  I have not seen a copy of the Grope for nearly 4(?) years now, and it was dire.
  Nothing like how it was in the 1960s and 1970s when you could be pretty certain that its non-political reporting would be some of the best to be found anywhere.

• James says:

  2 Sep2 September 10:19

  It could be free and I still wouldn’t go near it. Whilst I didn’t agree with a lot of its politics in the past, it was once a vaguely credible newspaper. It’s now a brexit comic book, devoid of any serious reporting – just little Englander xenophobia.

  • David says:

    2 Sep2 September 11:35

    +1

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