The Guardian’s reporting is generally good in my opinion. Its opinion pieces are absolute drivel sometimes. Peak Guardian for me was an article by Steven Thrasher that was something like “Why, as a gay black man, I have a moral dilemma about using nail salons”. I still like Marina Hyde, probably the funniest sketchwriter in the business.
I read the Guardian, read the Telegraph when they sometimes drop the paywall or when they give it out free with a bottle of water at railway stations, but I mostly read The Economist. Well worth its subscription price mostly because it doesn’t treat its readers as total imbeciles.