Paper Monitor
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Today we venture into the world of opinion.
As the venerable Guardian bod CP Scott once said: "Comment is free, so let's get as much of it in the paper as possible." OK, we may be creatively paraphrasing in this instance, but still, there's a lot of it about these days.
Any microsurvey of the world of newspaper opinion pages has to start with the Independent that has dedicated a whole pull-out section to it - the Viewspaper.
But Paper Monitor must note the Indy is kind of cheating by starting the Viewspaper with an ordinary feature. Today is a pretty straight offering, but one headline jumps out.
that Andy Coulson is much missed at Downing Street.
Controversial, as they say.
In the Daily Telegraph, there's a about Scotland having been indulged within the union.
Over in the Daily Star their leader deals with the same subject, but in more, well, Starry language: "The bonkers handouts scandal can't be swept under the carpet any longer."