Was thinking, if I could afford to pay for the Guardian again (now they’ve got rid of the mostly-awful Observer, which I never bought in the print days), the most valuable thing would be the option to customise it.
Specifically to exclude authors on subjects I’m interested in but whose writing is, shall we say, not ideal. Peter Bradshaw, Jonathan Jones, Stuart Heritage, Marina Hyde and Lucy Mangan to begin with.
I realise I could theoretically build something like this from their RSS feeds but since they want my money…
Pete Ashton
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2026-08-21 17:37:29 UTC
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