I used to buy the British edition at least partially for the articles, but it could be a damned hard slog finding them.

In fact a lot of the computer magazines tended in this direction - presumably the consolidation around the PC and the commoditization of it ate into margins as they all focused on the one (albeit growing) narrower topic.

By the by, I often joke that I buy The Economist for the pictures (not true, but the captions are often very sly jokes).