ONE way or another, I have written leaders at least once for every broadsheet newspaper in London, except the Financial Times. For younger readers, “broadsheet” was a style of printing newspapers on large sheets of paper, now represented only by the FT and the Telegraph. To write leaders is a bit like manufacturing a cryptocurrency: they have value only to the extent that people believe that they do. But this was nonsense even in the days when people got their news from physical papers rather than their phone screens. The warrant for thoughtful and well-informed discussions is now no longer the surrounding daily newspaper, but the writer’s byline.

Source: The Times April 10, 2025 23:32 UTC