Paper Monitor
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It's the question on every holiday-maker's lips. As the winter grinds on into the half-term break prompting thoughts about the chance of grabbing a short break in the sun, the Guardian nails its angle: should holidaymakers be going back to Burma?
But before you dive into the and wrestle with the subtleties of this particular moral conundrum, don't bother - the teaser text on the front offers what the Guardian's John Crace, author of the , would describe as the "Digested read, digested": "Wish you were here? Why it is time for tourists to return to Burma".
So that settles that then.
Meanwhile, Paper Monitor has spent the morning wondering about the mystery of the prime minister's missing tears.
Last night those viewers who were, presumably, not channelling the spirit of St Valentine with a romantic candlelight meal, may instead have sat down to watch the Piers Morgan interview with Gordon Brown on ITV.
Paper Monitor couldn't help but notice that while the interview elicited some raw and heartfelt emotions from Mr and Mrs Brown, the programme wasn't 100% true to the billing it received in the papers.
- the Daily Telegraph
- the Scotsman
- Daily Mail
And yet if one visits the , tears are absent.