Paper Monitor
13:50 UK time, Thursday, 2 June 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's been a while since Paper Monitor has had a fond look at the "World's Greatest Newspaper".
For the uninitiated, that title is claimed by the .
It's probably only galling because the powers-that-be have denied Paper Monitor the right to have "World's Greatest Semi-Witty Journal Review" in its masthead.
The Express has an unusual day today because instead of going it alone, two of its favourite subjects are genuinely in the news.
The amnesty given to 161,000 asylum seekers is a big story in most papers and the lead in the Express.
And there's a startling bit of probing into EU largesse from the that most of the papers seem to have. The bureau found that the EU spent money on private jet journeys for commissioners, cocktail parties and expensive jewellery for guests.
All splendid stuff for the Express.
But the comment piece from the deputy leader of Ukip, Paul Nuttall, might cause a slight arching of the eyebrow from those familiar with the internet.
It opens: "If you Google the words 'European Union' and 'waste' the search engine points you to over 35 million hits in a matter of seconds."
Well, it does, but the first nine relate to "waste" in the more basic sense of stuff you throw away.
You could conduct an equally unscientific survey by Googling "daily express" and "world's greatest newspaper". You get 111,000 results. But for "daily express" and "porn" you get 745,000 results, which, er, proves nothing.
But after Nuttall's unpromising opening he then manages to be pithy and poetic, coming out with the wonderful phrase "Croesus' confetti".
Paper Monitor can't resist a classical reference.
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