Paper Monitor
11:52 UK time, Wednesday, 15 April 2009
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
Reputation has it that doctors have the worst handwriting. It's usually an unreadable scrawl that looks like a spider has walked across the page with a pen in each of its eight legs.
But it would appear Prime Minister Gordon Brown is up there with them. The Times has very kindly made public the private letter he sent to Tory MP Nadine Dorries. She was mentioned in e-mails sent by his former senior aide Damian McBride, which discussed smearing senior Conservatives.
Well, Paper Monitor THINKS it's about the e-mails. While the paper has printed the letter, it's a struggle to read it. All the other papers blur the text of the letter but they needn't have bothered. Written in thick, black pen, it's right up there with your average prescription when it comes to fathoming exactly what's written. It even looks like he's signed it from Candy or Cindy. Surely not?
There's a major gratuitous-use-of-scantily-clad-women alert in the papers today. The Mirror uses the entirely un-newsworthy story of Princess Eugenie wearing denim shorts while on holiday to shoehorn seven other pictures of female celebrities in denim shorts onto the page. That must be a record.
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