I've noticed over many years of living in the south-east that if I don't pick up my Saturday Grauniad in the morning, it then becomes quite a challenge to find somewhere that still has any copies. There are, of course, any number of copies of various right-wing rags. I'd have thought free-market economics ought to mean that the various newsagents should buy in more of the papers they sell out of, and fewer of the ones they end up with extras. But apparently it doesn't work like that.

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Ah, free market economics might work that way, but you're assuming supply there to meet demand. And increasing supply to meet demand is so not socialist, you know.

(OK, I can't explain the buying of too many of the Murdoch/Desmond/Barclay rags, unless they're on sale or return.)

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unless they're on sale or return.

Which I seem to remember was precisely the case a few years back - and I haven't heard anything different since. At least at that time, the Guardian was in fact unusual in not being sale or return.

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Reading the Grauniad for an insight into lefty thinking reminds me of our beloved majesty remarking how she liked to listen to Mrs Dale's Diary to keep up with how the lower classes were living . . .

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