The papers - 25 January, 2011

Two sexist old geezers titter and nudge over shock, horror a person of the female gender involved in footie and it gets in the papers. Loved the Mirror splash – A Game of Two Halfwits – hear, hear. The Sun tried to have it both ways – splashing with a pix of the lineswoman with the immortal line (yawn) - Get ‘Em Off , swiftly followed by the cross-head “Sexist pundits axed from TV”, just in case you thought the Sun was sexist. Inside, to reinforce its credentials, the full gory story and a column from Sun columnist and ref Karren Brady. By the way, Quentin Letts – you poor thing.

Daily Star gave us the more serious stuff, splashing with – Alex & Andre Unite Against Jordan – people famous for being famous and their marital arrangements.

Battling for our attention the Indy (both versions), The Times, Telegraph, Guardian, and FT led, in the main, with the Moscow airport suicide bombing in which at least 35 people died. The Guardian continued with its excellent Palestine Papers revelations.

Jo Yeates is no longer front-page news, but reportage of the accused in court and an artist’s impression of Tabak and interpreter carried it forward.

Morning Star pictures a defiant picket protest of women demanding a public inquiry into police spying, in the sex for snouts scandal.

City:am and FT tell us that CBI chief Richard Lambert believes the Tory-led coalition is harming growth. This is not news to us, we have been saying this for a long time – welcome to the real world.

The Mail, apart from giving that poor thing Quentin Letts column space, warns us that families will only be allowed to have 80 bags of rubbish a year. It’s such a huge story it’s got 72-POINT 5 DECK HEADLINE and not much room for the text.

For the good news – thank you, for once, to the Daily Express for the “Cure for Most Cancers Soon” – the holy grail will be available in a few years says British boffins. And on Burns’ night, The Scotsman reports mortality rates for children continue to fall to a record low level.

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