Not many people read The Guardian, compared to other fine publications like The Sun (which apparently has got the biggest circulation, something seriously wrong with this statistic in case you missed the sarcasm, but anyway).

I’ve never been a newspaper person myself. Just never seen the point. Which is kind of strange, considering that growing up, it was a weekly pilgrimage to get the Sunday papers. In Athens there wasn’t that many places that sold Arabic newspapers. Sundays was always a trip to the local newsagent, that was over an hour away :). My dad would sell this trip in a family outing type thing, we’d get some lunch in a restaurant (my mum cooks Monday - Saturday, Sunday is my dad’s day to cook, which explains the restaurant option every Sunday). When I was at University, everyone used read the paper every Saturday and Sunday during breakfast and lunch.

I find it strange since I devour the written word in all it’s forms, except this clearly disposable version, the newspaper. On Wednesday, coming out of the tube, I was greeted with a free sample copy of the new redesigned Guardian. So I had a look at it, and I was engrossed in the little snippets. I read a couple of the opinion columns, and while a lot of it didn’t really inspire me much, but even then I’m considering buying this or the Independent on a quasi-regular basis.