There is, on occasion, high quality articles and analysis from a perspective you won't find in, say, the Guardian.
But as you say, it's a shrill knee jerk organ catering for the crackpots who make up the Tory Membership. The comments section on most articles is usually utterly vile.
Certainly wouldn't pay for it, blag access via work.
Both of my parents are life long readers, so it’s always been the paper I’ve been brought up around.
Maybe it’s just my awareness has increased as I’ve got older, but I never remember it being this right wing.
Some of it is proper down the rabbit hole stuff.