May I ask ...

Refreshing to know that there is something worth listening to as I find the headlines most off putting. My elderly Mum, a non political being, has always told me one piece of advice when it comes to elections. She always says ....

“Remember one thing you can always rely on during an election one particular party will promise the earth, and particular care for the “People” and they always deliver very little of it but they always always always raise taxes. When they are are replaced they leave behind a large Deficit as they love to borrow, you can always rely on Labour for Higher Taxes and Debt accrued”.

I have watched over the years and she is correct Labour always leave a mess and Taxes always go up very often in quiet and rather sneaky ways. I’m not Anti Labour in general or Pro anyone else in particular in fact I’m pretty much fed up of them all. Democracy to used be a word we Brits could be proud of, sadly no longer but I’ve always found her advice on the button. So having a worthwhile read is very nice. I will look it out. Thanks.

Thank you for that Party Political on behalf of the Anyone other than Labour Party. Not what I was looking for when I asked for sources of information but I suppose I should not be surprised.

Oh, be fair,*GGMK2*, Countrylife did give a source of information.... her mother...

I listen to R4 and follow interesting people on Twitter. I find quite a lot there which never seems to make it onto BBC. Of course there is rubbish there too!

I listen to R4. look at the BBC website and read the Daily Mail and i on week days and, Observer and Daily Telegraph on Sundays. That way we are covering all but the extremes of the political spectrum.

DH's rule is that even if there is no party you want to vote for, there is always a party you want to vote against.

Monica you seriously think that’s a wide coverage.

I get most of my information from the television, I have Sky News on in the morning if I’m at home, and I listen whilst I get on with whatever I’m doing in the house. We both listen to the BBC News at One, and often to the BBC Politics Today just before the News at One. We don’t sit watching and listening and doing nothing else, we just get on with whatever we’re doing.
I watch Question Time on Thursday night, I sit in bed and watch it. I often read the Politics and News threads on Gransnet to see what you all think, but I definitely don’t look at every thread.
Sometimes I read The Telegraph or Sunday Times, but not very often.
Hope that is what you were looking for GGMK3.

Sorry, didn’t answer the last part of your post.
Since I get my news from mainstream sources, I can’t recommend anything especially. I don’t spend time looking for different sources, since I’ve got too much to do (we do a lot of childcare and most days support my elderly mother.)

I get lots from twitter by following economists, lawyers, trade experts, political commentators etc.. I'm particularly interested in economics because I think that understanding how a national economy 'works' is important when judging policies. Twitter also leads me to diverse articles that take me beyond the 'stance' of The Guardian, my daily paper. I like the fact checking done by the various TV news sites and by Full Fact.

Despite having poked fun at an earlier poster having her mother as a 'source' I think I'm influenced by my christain upbringing (though agnostic now) in my left of centre view of how society could be improved, though I know that other people with christian backgrounds can reach entirely different conclusions.

Gnet, though 90% irritating, can lead to some interesting views to consider.

Yehbutnobut Never suggested that it was wide coverage. But sufficient for general political background.

But I also do extensive and intensive online searches and specialisy reading on specific topics when I want/need to, but that kind of research wasn't part of the question, just where we got information from, in a general way.

Where do you get your day-to-day current affairs/political information from?

R4 on and off during the day, LBC Phone Ins during the night when I can't sleep, 6p.m. BBC News, 7p.m. ITV News, one RT News program and several of their documentaries, especially one called Renegade as the presenter interviews interesting people and doesn't keep interrupting them like the Today lot do. I don't buy a newspaper, don't want to support our dodgy newspaper proprietors.

One of my stranger sources is The Economist. I like it but would never pay for it but my brother sends it to me as a Christmas Present every year. I liked it better when he gave me a voucher for Amazon and I could buy embroidery thread for my machine and books, and books, and books (it was a very generous present) but that year has never been repeated, so I try to get the best out of the Economist but there are times when it is little read.

Radio 4 can catch you unawares with good, in-depth programmes at odd times but they are good, in-depth programmes so I am not complaining.

I read the (bonkers ultra brexitty ) Spectator and also the (completely sane) The New European

Radio 4 pm BBC Politics Live and the Times mainly. Sometimes Andrew Marr and QT (where politicians really annoy me but independent guests give insight)

Local BBC radio, Radio 5 Live, and my daily newspaper. Don't like to watch tv news, too depressing.

Gransnet quite often.

NPR, BBC, NYTimes, Washington Post, The Guardian, Rachel Maddow, The Atlantic, and sometimes Stephen Colbert, John Oliver et al. of late night show prominence (these last when I can't take another dreary story or headline).