The Guardian Weekly readers featured in Good to meet you always seem to have nothing but praise for the paper, so I’ll be bold and say “I love the Weekly according to my bond, no more nor less”.
The Weekly goes a long way towards being what a great newspaper should be: a source of independent, rigorous, accurate and uncompromising reporting, but it gets touchy when criticised, as I discovered once when I wrote to complain about the ads for offshore banking services that the paper used to carry. My letter wasn’t published, and in the meantime such ads have stopped appearing. This gripe aside, I enjoy receiving the Guardian Weekly enormously and have been a faithful subscriber since I moved to Zurich over 20 years ago. As the world gets more digital, my love of paper – the feel, smell and sound of it – becomes more acute. I read pretty much everything in the Weekly except the sports coverage. I particularly enjoy Leonard Barden’s wonderful chess column, without understanding (or caring) why it’s on the sports page.
In addition to reading the Weekly most mornings while preparing coffee, I have also used it as a teaching aid, as raw material for making papier-mache masks and to assemble a Good News Guardian for my 90-year-old mother, a lifelong Guardian reader. My advice to anyone wishing to compile one? Start snipping articles early in the year.
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