In true Newsnight stylee, I thought I’d have a look at this morning’s front pages. Today is a pretty interesting day, because yesterday there was officially only one piece of news in Britain. Two quite famous and marginally important people are going to get married.
The Daily Express brings the dead back to life, once more:
The Daily Mirror gets its facts wrong (she won’t be a princess, apparently)… and wheels out Paul Burrell (“He can’t be king”):
Daily Telegraph – very conservative. I’m guessing the feature advertised at the top (“Their 30-year love affair”) has been sitting around for a while. Incidentally, their headline “…but the public don’t want her to be Queen” is wrong. Actually, more people couldn’t care less than have an opinion either way!
The Financial Times, thank God, hardly mentions it on their front page. Good thing, too.
And my favourite of them all… the Independent, echoing exactly my thoughts:
(little black box, bottom-right hand corner: “And in other news: Charles to wed”. Classic!)