The newsagent at the station didn't have my newspaper this morning. Doesn't happen often, but it's bloody annoying when it does.
Didn't have a Grauniad, either. I don't mind taking the Grauniad occasionally. Makes a nice change. What's more, they've poached David Aaronovitch from the Independent.
But no, they only had the Tory rags, with which I would not soil my hands. (Though I must admit that my hands get pretty soiled reading the Independent - the newsprint makes my hands look like a miner's by the time I get to work.)
My deepest loathing, though, is reserved for the Devils Newspaper.
Posted to Apropos of nothing by Simon Brunning at March 19, 2003 09:20 AMIs there only one newsagent in London? We've got several in the country.
Posted by: Stevan Rose on March 19, 2003 11:04 AMAnd the time to wander about visiting them all, I suppose. You country types move at nature's pace, don't you.?
For us in civilisation, time is money.
Besides, in my experience, when a newsagent doesn't have papers, it's always a distribution problem. None of the other nearby newsagents will have any either.
Posted by: Simon on March 19, 2003 11:16 AMIt is really annoying - I guess it is because no one want the morning routine to be disturbed unnecessarily.
Posted by: Babu on March 19, 2003 11:44 AMCan't you take Aaronovitch back, the portly opinionist pollutes my paper of choice, you could have him and jonathan freedland for robert fisk any day.
Cheers
Paul
The newsagent at my station always runs out of the Indy first too, why?
Frankly I don't miss Aaronvitch much, but I wish that someone would poach Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, her ramblings make my blog look like finely honed coherant prose.
Jim.
Posted by: Jim Hughes on March 19, 2003 03:34 PM