Despite Rupert Murdoch and the soft-porn tabloid dailies, ‘the spectrum of thought (in the British print media) ranges so wide that a progressive-minded American might be tempted to take up residence here.

In comparison, the leading “liberal” dailies across the Atlantic – the New York Times and the Washington Post – are mouthpieces of corporate power and U.S. empire. If the Times and the Post were being published in London, then British readers would consider those newspapers to be centrist or even conservative.’ AlterNet