Mixed offerings today from the nationals. They all agree that the main stories are around the fall-out from Alan Johnson and Andy Coulson resignations; the arrest of a man on suspicion of murder of Jo Yeates; the bravery of Australian soldier awarded the VC for action in Afghanistan and the love lives of a senior Tory Lord and Liz Hurley.
Little agreement on the splash – only two the same today. The Mirror relates the sorrow of Jo Yeates’ parents facing the “worst day of their lives” while the Sun has girlfriend of murder suspect standing by her man. The Morning Star highlights the weekend CWU march through Postal Minister Ed Davey’s constituency to oppose the privatisation of the Royal Mail. The Daily Star, however, ran with the “exclusive” Kerry Katona denial that she was a marriage wrecker - she had not stolen a “mum-of-three’s Royal Marine hunk”.
The Mail splashed with a health scare story of do-it-yourself diagnosing and treatment and consulting your GP by e-mail, rather than face-to-face – and no, it wasn’t to do with reducing cross-infection but cutting down on appointments time. Probably because Government plans for the NHS will mean that GPs will be too busy doing the accounts to see patients. The Express warned us of driver fury at looming petrol rationing and predicted petrol would be GBP8 by the summer.
Independent continued the phone-hacking story and, inside, had a pix of Cameron and James Murdoch together looking, as the Americans would say, goofy. Guardian devoted several pages and the splash to their revelations about the Middle East, pointing to secret documents that showed how the peace was lost. Inside Jackie Ashley asks who runs Britain? The implication being Murdoch empire has too much power. The Times brings the good news that the Tories’ Big Society is in crisis and the Telegraph tells women that it is poor diet and life-style that gives us breast cancer. Interesting to note that the Guardian was virtually alone in reporting that the UK cancer rates had declined over the past 10 years.
FT concentrated on the fall-out from the Irish Coalition Government’s collapse and Barclays pay plans and the freebie City:am attempted to convince us that bankers were good for us citing the amount of tax Goldman’s had paid. Aah, but how much had they put in their pockets?
Much pontificating and jolly cartoons about Ed Balls’ as Ed Miliband’s attack dog. A bit of forest sell-off furore from the rich and famous and the Sun launches a campaign about traumatized squaddies, warning of a mental health ticking time-bomb.
We are told the bleeding obvious by Tory David Davis that “David Cameron and his inner circle are too rich to connect with ordinary voters” and would mourn the loss of Essex boy, Andy Coulson.
Only one comment from me about the Tory Lord and the single-mother – I cannot believe that pink trousers, beige jacket are de rigeur for a Tory Ball. Thanks to the Sun for showing us other uses for an L cup bra. (I am not going to tell you).
Heartbreaking news that ET probably doesn’t exist. They’ll soon be telling us Santa doesn’t exist.
Finally, to the two old farts Sky’s Andy Grey and Richard Keys, whose sexist jibs about the off-side rule were caught on microphone – ha, bloody, ha – grow up boys.
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