The mid-week lull

It's nearly been a full week since the challenge started. Nearly a full week, but it feels like longer.

I'm not sure if any of you have ever attempted to only gather your news from one source that you fundamentally disagree with, but it's no fun. I was trying to explain my problem with the paper, and with this month to one of my friends today. I think that the fundamental problem is the lack of coherence demonstrated in the articles. By this I mean:

• Articles often appear to have contradictory points that they are making - one this week both was sickened at health and safety laws, and also sickened about a girl who health and safety laws were seeking to protect.
• The paper is obsessed with people being free to do what they want, but only if that is what the Mail wants them to do (an obvious point).
• The Mail pushes the idea that women have their place, but their website, with it's prominent 'Femail' section targets women (mostly with stories designed to make women think that they shouldn't get fat, that they shouldn't eat red meat, that they should be doing the cleaning and that they shouldn't feel bad about treating their boys and girls differently). 

I am upset that I've not heard anything about the Tory conference that covers the event from a more balanced perspective, I guess come November I'll be doing a fair amount of catch-up reading. What I do know is that we are all in this together, and while there is a problem with a lack of middle-class benefits this is better than suffering from 'scroungers' living the highlife on benefits, buying boob jobs and playing us hard-working honest  Joe's for fools. I also know a rather charming 'human interest' story that a young girl sent David 'just call me Dave' Cameron her 'tooth-fairy money' to help pay the deficit. So that was nice.

My knowledge of the news at the moment is slightly more limited than I think it could be, and this may partly be my fault, it is difficult to read more than a couple of these articles a day. The shouting, the hectoring, the lack of coherence and the backwards views is getting far too much! 

Anyway, if you're still with me we'll move on.

To the main event:

I've taken my second political compass test. There has been a little change, but if that is part of a larger change in myself or just a slight change in how I read/answered questions. 

It looks like I've moved slightly to the right, and slightly towards the libertarian. I wonder if this will last?!

Thanks for reading.

Matt