This morning's (English language) Qatar Tribune includes an article about Peter Robinson's nomination as leader of the DUP, the latest news and poll findings from the London mayoral race and a piece about a London blackmail trial with a member of the royal family as the alleged victim. This is as well as coverage of the US Presidential contest, Italy's general election, Kosovo, Tibet, the leadership of the Indian Congress Party, the EU Agriculture Council and the Pope's visit to the US (no mention of Gordon's trip though).
Now of course much of this material is news agency copy and the feature articles are mostly syndicated from the US press. The Tribune is clearly aimed at a professional, internationalist expat community .And you won't find here a leader or cartoon excoriating or lampooning the government. But I think you'd be hard put to find comparable foreign news coverage in any one British paper.
Have British publishers and editors got their priorities wrong? Or are we, as newspaper buyers and readers in Britain, just not interested enough in abroad?
