There’s a article on exactly what you mention in terms of misinformation, this time on migration. I’m willing to believe the same on the standard of living too.
Briefly returning to what (financially) underpins The Guardian, it appears that the Scott Trust Endowment Find is estimated to worth £1.3bn..It permits Guardian Media Group to draw down £25-40m a year to offset operating losses from the newspaper. It must be one of the most well endowed media organisations in the world (and I say that with respect!).
Creating the Scott Trust was in retrospect a work of genius. It was originally done to avoid the closure of the paper due to the high rate of death duties but ended up securing the papers independent future.
I would suggest a minimum of 5 different sources for true objectivity.
We have had a house here for nearly 20-years, but it was only in 2018 it became our permanent residence when I got the boot; too old and too expensive…. a month later “can you do some consulting “ “nah”.
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We recently had a 0.5% rise in the commune’s population; a baby was born.
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Every morning I read online, The Guardian, The Times, i newspaper, Independent.
For rational news it’s The FT. And the NYT.
Then for humour, the lamentably poor DT, and sometimes the comic called the Daily Mail.
But, every fortnight I receive the print edition of Private Eye.
The interesting news items in the Eye are often reported in the other “ news comics” usually 6 to 8 weeks later.
It’s an example of the changing times in which we live.
The computer tablet age has caused many Newspapers to have a presentation model , matching the low concentration abilities of many readers. I read an article this weekend, describing how the first chapters in some novels were being amended to entice reading the book to low attention readers .
I still find solace in listening to the radio.
Every morning the traffic reports from the UK give me a smile - no longer my annoyance.
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You must be a super speed reader, or have absolutely nothing else to do. 
I don’t read any newspapers, after I am finished here half the day is already gone. 
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Regretfully this tendancy to cater to a younger audience is not limited to The Guardian. The New York Times, my go-to source of news for many decades, has become almost unreadable for this reason. I do not begrudge the younger generations their moment in the sun, but frankly I have no interest in knowing the woke way to react if I have learned that my best friend is having an affair with my neighbour. It is none of my business. The issue belongs at the supermarket checkout, not in a paper of global repute. I have opted for the international version of The Guardian. To get to these purient issues, you have to scroll down quite a bit. It has to be a very slow news day for me to get that far.
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What was the answer Jef? Offer them a safe space in your garden shed? That’s what I would do.
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Very adult of you. 
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I was at school with a scion of the Scotts while they were still the Manc Grauniad. He was immensely tall for his age. One early summer morning we had a fire drill. We all rushed out and formed up on the quad.
Scott’s metabolism had not caught up with the dash outdoors. It had failed to pump sufficient blood to his head, a long way from his legs and he keeled over in a faint.
Funny, the things one remembers …
As for news, I have a sub with the NYT. It can be had for an absurdly low price. When they announce, 12 months on, that the sub will go from $2/4 weeks to $12/4 weeks being a pauper I cancel and simply sign up again on the next ‘special offer’ which always comes along within days.
The NYT has excellent coverage of British and other European issues. I was surprised to see the amount of time they put into covering the felling of the sycamore at Hadrian’s Wall and the subsequent legal proceedings.
They have a very long list of topics one can sign up to or not. Here’s one of mine
The recipes/cooking section is now my go-to for meals.
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I find that I have to rapidly scroll through the first pages and try to find an article with something of interest - a bit like @captainendeavour , I find myself reading the food and recipes section more and more.
However - good news on the horizon, and for those of lucky enough to have worked in anglophone African countries and would like to fresh their pidgin, I can reccomend this BBCNews, in pidgin.
(Try read it as written and it also reminds me of French creolise in Gaudelooupe)
Most irritating bit? The bit that @Roger_Lapin posts on SF. 
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However, he’s rightly righteous and in these dark times, we all need somewhere to shout or scream WTF! Why?
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Ha! Just like you, I’ve read the Guardian since I was a student but seem to have aged out of the target demographic and now find it insufferable for the reasons you outlined so well.
In a bid to filter out all the fluff I’ve ditched the Graun altogether and managed to get a subscription to the FT through my employer and I’m not disappointed (Jay Rayner defected at about the same time as me so that helped!).
If you have to take out a personal subscription to the FT it’s pretty steep, especially when you’re coming from a publication which is completely free. One tip is to think about a Revolut Metal account which costs €17 per month and includes a free subscription (this works out as significantly cheaper than subscribing direct).
I’m also somewhat aghast at the recent enshitification of the BBC experience for non-UK residents. Been listening to R4 for decades on BBC Sounds which was recently scrapped without explanation and replaced with a truly dreadful alternative 
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Bumping an old thread (because I’m new here) I too am finding The Guardian less and less to my tastes. I used to be a fully paid up follower, and periodic supporter, but those days are over. I’d class myself as a leftie but I am increasingly finding myself angered by coverage of certain issues because it is too unobjectively leftist. It’s like The Guardian has joined the like/dislike polarization favoured by social media - you’re either for or against with no nuance. Maybe they are chasing a younger readership for whom such decision making is more familiar.
Recently, I find myself feeling that some of their headline articles are bordering on what some might call tittle-tattle. That is, something you might read in a tabloid.
As to my major irritant (and I say this tongue-in-cheek since I know it won’t meet with universal agreement) - Marina Hyde. I’ve long since stopped reading her column. I recoginise her as a talented writer with a clever way with words but she knows her audience and plays to it. I think it’s lazy, and she punches obvious targets in a manner that she knows will get approval.
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I totally get that! Those “vote on tiny personal annoyances” pieces can be really frustrating, especially when you’re used to the Guardian’s more serious reporting. It feels like they’re prioritizing clickbait over substance these days.
The worst are those dismal men droning on Eeyoreishly about some piffling domestic conundrum in an irritating fake self-deprecating way, oh look at me I’m so boyishly incompetent.
Just go for a walk off a pier.
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