Today I have been three weeks without a daily or Sunday paper. I have been reading papers ever since the time I looked at Giles cartoons about the Suez canal in the 50s. There were 4 main reasons for this drastic change.

1. The Daily Telegraph's insane campaign against David Cameron. I didn't mind reports of disatisfaction with him from within the party but hated the "spin" insinuated into its pages, treating me like some ill educated reader of a Murdoch red top tabloid.

2. The saving: c. £360 a year.

3. The paper was increasingly rather boring. I skipped too much to make it a justifiable expense

4. Got fed up with waiting for the paper boy to arrive - after 10 in school holidays.

Do I miss it ? Surprisingly not - more a feeling of liberation.