Yes, overall it is right of centre. Socially liberal but economically conservative.
But I prefer Philip Collins, David Aaronovitch and Hugo Rifkind (all centre left) to Owen Jones and Seamus Milne* for example. And Matthew Parris if one of only about 3 Tories I'd have a drink with. So even though they have Tim Montgomerie and that awful Menalie Phillips woman, the paper is much more centrist than its readers.
*In 2014, one of Jones or Milne wrote a Graun article for the centenary of WW1. They said that GB had started the war to steal more colonies. {No mention of the Fischer Thesis or the September Programme 1914 or the 1912 War Council.} No mention that these extra colonies were tier 3 mandates (too backward to run themselves} demanded Aus and SA as their rewards.
Because GB ended up with a couple of ex-Kraut colonies, it means that GB started WW1 just to get more colonies from the innocent Hun. Disgusting.
So if they could get that wrong, how can I trust them when they write about things I have little knowledge of such as Working Tax Credits or Union laws?
btw - did you know I've had 6 or 7 letters published? I backed up Field Marshall Lord Brammel on Haig's good generalship, had a reply from a Lord Mayor and totally caned the Italian Ambassador. Good paper.
Jones and Milne are very much of the self-hating left which, I think does your cause so much harm. The West, the US, Israel and the UK are automatically in the wrong, whatever the scenario. The majority of people are getting tired of this attitude, I think.
Well done on having letters published! I rarely check the letters page these days, but will do so now.
I couldn't agree more, mate. This PC, identity politics, virtue-signalling self-loathing holds our cause back no end.
And if the last few years, even the Graun readers are starting to change. Posts about Islam {which say that they are not always right and us always wrong} used to get lots of replies saying "racist". Now they get 3-4 figure recommends.
People have realised that the emperor has got no clothes.
They are just getting their heads around the fact that shouting "racist" at everyone who mentioned immigration hasn't made the problem go away. It's led to Brexit and much of the continent getting all jackbooty.
As is happening with Ukip, Afd, FN, Geert Wilders, Aust Freedom Party, Sw Democrats, Poland and Hungary etc, it's clear that people aren't taking it any more.
And worse, we've now made this form of overt racism far more acceptable than it was.
So ignoring people's genuine concerns has led to the rise in the far right and made it far more acceptable. Completely counter productive, imo.
Well-intentioned. {Well, mostly. A lot of simple virtue signalling, too.} But they've made things far worse for those they claim to care about.