The Guardian

The Guardian is a fleet street quality newspaper affectionately known as the Grauniad for its legendary typographic mishaps. Originally The Manchester Guardian it has long dropped the city name and become a national title.

Politically it is left of centre, though usually endorses the Labour Party rather than the Greens or Liberal Democrats, "Guardian reader" is a polite British collective term for intellectual or middle class supporters of the parties of the left and centre left. Its Sunday stablemate is The Observer.

Its only real competitor is the The Independent, as there is no midmarket centre or left of centre national daily and The Mirror as a tabloid is in a very different niche.