Where do you go for politics news and commentary?

[White-Noise]

Besides the usual bbc sky popular newspapers etc, is there somewhere you get political news from? This could include commentators as well as typical sorts of outlets? Thanks for any suggestions.

[119]

You don't need anywhere else other than PH, as this is where are the experts reside.

[z4RRSchris]

BBC, guardian, times / FT
few commentators, few podcasts,

[Mr Penguin]

The Times
BBC
FT
The Guardian
New Yorker

Podcasts/YouTube:
How to Win an Election
Political Currency
Leading (The Rest is Politics' interviews)
Goodfellows (Hoover Institute)
John Anderson's interviews (Aussie former Deputy PM who interviews politicians and commentators but not usually about day to day topics)

[BikeBikeBIke]

Quite seriously you can get a broad brush overview from MSM but for detail you need twitter and podcasts,books and YouTube.

I've never gone far wrong identifying the expert/correspondent on the Today program on R4 or similar and the following them on whatsoever social media they're on for the detail.

The BBC just won't talk to (say) Mark Galeotti for an hour - they give him 7 minutes, it's not enough.

[S600BSB]

I always start with the Daily Telegraph. Mainly for laughs!

[bobbo89]

BBC for TV and radio news then Twitter and this place mainly.

Using those three as a base I find other people share enough links to news articles and data from various other sources that I don't need to regularly use a specific news site.

Twitter is brilliant as a means of getting breaking news, stuff gets on there faster than anything else.

[GetCarter]

The News Agents and Rest Is Politics podcasts.

Proper deep dive into what is actually going on. (Not the mostly crap you read in the press)

[Derek Smith]

History. It's all happened before.

[s1962a]

ground.news

[fat80b]

Spectator subscription. I thought I’d give it a try expecting that I wouldn’t read it much after the first few months. It’s now comfortably my goto daily reading.

I’ve stopped reading the BBC news app after the last update basically broke it for me - the user numbers must have collapsed as it’s now useless……

After the spectator, it’s here (recognising the bias due to the demographic of the typical PHer)

After that it’s YouTube for me where I try and watch clips of people I agree with and of those I strongly disagree with!

[Castrol for a knave]

Similar to many on here, aside for BBC/ IT/ C$ and occasionally SKY it is;

Guardian (though I know I am looking through a centre left lens)
Mail (it is a rag, but it can be good for breaking news and like a stopped clock.....)
FT
Wa Po and USA Today - the latter is a bit like the Indy here - really popular in the 80's and 90's but gone off the radar for a lot of people. US printed media is also a bit lagging compared to the UK.

Various podcasts such as Rest is Politics, Private Eye (and the mag), The Story and Electoral Dysfunction. I also find myself enjoying Political Currency, though I find it a bit clunky at times.

I do drop into Unherd and Tortoise, mainly as they tend to have a range of commentators.

[fido]

TalkTV and LBC, then BBC or Daily Mail to see how the left/right twists the story!

[JuanCarlosFandango]

The Old Testament.

[Carl_VivaEspana]

First read or listen is usually the Spectator , I especially enjoy their podcasts.

[grumbledoak]

X / Twitter

[White-Noise]

Some great ideas in here I wasn't aware of thanks so far all

[Clockwork Cupcake]

s1962a said:

ground.news

I'm seeing this heavily pushed by so many of the YouTube channels that I watch that it makes me suspicious.

It appears to be a news aggregator that uses AI to parse the various news outlets and tries to assess them for bias, providing an AI-generated summary for each, and then you click through to the actual news site.

So kind of like Google News but with added AI and the inherent bias and inaccuracy that AI brings to the party. Ironically.

[Cloudy147]

TLDR news for me on YouTube. Just the facts, and clearly states when it’s opinion, and even then they try to make opinion based on facts.

I like the simplicity and honesty of it all. It’s not sensational, it’s just telling us about things and why they are how they are.

[LittleBigPlanet]

FT
The Economist