[andysinclair]

What is the "standard political perspective"?

The Independent and The Guardian are two fine newspapers. They generally run interesting and intelligent articles, often covering stories that you don't find in other newspapers or media outlets.

[Ratfish]

Exactly. They would be considered by some (or all?) to have a leftwing slant and therefore be tainted somehow. They are considerably to the left of most American papers for example.

[MoreMoschops]

Bear in mind the U.S. has two main political parties; the right-wing one, and the even more right-wing one. The U.S. papers simply can't afford to be centrist or leftist.

[mmaro]

The U.S. has two main political parties: the left-wing one in perpetual power, and an incompetent left-wing one that still thinks they can get the outcomes they want through elections (they can't; progressive civil servants run the show).

Some introductory reading: "Politics: Comtemporary" in http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/2009/03/collected-writings-o...

[MoreMoschops]

http://www.corrupt.org/columns/martin_regnen/condensed_moldb...

To be fair, I didn't need to wear a tinfoil hat when reading _every_ paragraph!

[mmaro]

Most of these are well-justified in his essays; obviously a condensed summary will not be very convincing.