or because you see them as "insular and self-righteous"?
Slight case of pot, kettle and black, methinks.
(I read the FT, by the way, so not in the least partisan about the Guardian)
We are discussing newspapers, and if some people can criticise The Mail, in this thread, then I feel it valid to make a comment about a newspaper I don't like. What I don't do, is criticise The Guardian in every thread, like those who castigate the Mail, because they don't really understand the issues being discussed, so disguise it by trying to sound clever in dissing the Mail.