[cromwellian]

Funny, a lot of left wingers would say Economist has a neo-liberal (right wing) bias. It seems the Overton window has shifted the right so far to the extreme that someone like Milton Friedman would probably be considered left wing.

[baud147258]

Perhaps they have different bias, depending on the subject? (I don't know, I haven't opened one since leaving school)

[dagw]

I think they'd argue that they have a consistently liberal "bias" in all subjects, it's just they don't map cleanly onto modern left-right politics. For example they favor deregulation and privatization which are traditional "right wing" stances, while also favoring gay marriage and drug legalization which is an issues that has recently been more championed by the left. The Economist would argue that their stance in both issues is "liberal" thus there being no contradiction.

[baud147258]

Thank you.

From the two comments above, I guessed it was something like this

[ptah]

yes, this is evident from claims that hillary clinton is a leftist when she is closer to maggie thatcher

[rbanffy]

Or that Bernie Sanders is a socialist...

[luckylion]

Doubtful. It's just that the left-right-axis isn't that helpful these days. You can be socially progressive but financially conservative.

[debacle]

Very true. Left no longer means liberal.

[dagw]

Outside of the US, "liberal" politicians and political parties almost always belong to the center right part of the countries political spectrum.

[repolfx]

They used to. Since Zanny Minton-Beddoes took over it's basically the British version of the NYT but in magazine form.