Paper Monitor
12:27 UK time, Tuesday, 10 May 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
The morning's press is full of talk about super-injuctions.
But Paper Monitor has self-imposed an injunction on discussing super-injunctions. Because there is so much wonderful whimsy to describe instead.
Here is Craig Brown in the Daily Mail explaining, apropos of very little, It is of little surprise, he says, that more than a million Scrabble tiles have gone missing since the game was first invented:
Because so many games of Scrabble end in tears, with the tiles scattered all over the floor. The new Official Scrabble Dictionary, revered by nerds, loathed by everyone else, will be the cause of any number of new arguments.
PM also delights in Deborah Ross of the Independent, who, aggrieved by a Daily Telegraph blog which called for the right to vote to be limited, launches into
Vogue "recessionistas" who keep telling us how to save money as if it were an amusing adventure (Vogue fashion assistant Annabel Parker had her Chanel bag rejuvenated for just £150"); rich people who would pay lots of tax if they weren't up to funny business offshore (nice); Boden/Toast/Whistles mothers who double-park 4x4s outside schools and think putting their hazard lights on makes it all right (it doesn't, love: also, I hate your swishy, flirty, dotty skirt); Vogue recessionistas who tell us how to clean chandeliers without having to call a man in (vinegar is probably the answer, Annabel; it usually is); young estate agents who cut you up in their Mini Coopers (my car may only have the one wing mirror, but at least I own it, dearie); MPs who say that without expenses the job won't attract the "right" kind of person (good).
Lastly, PM is taken by the banner adorning the top of an interview in the Sun with an 87-year-old hero of World War II who is newsworthy because her glamorous granddaughter, Irina Shayk, is dating footballer Cristiano Ronaldo.
"SUN," reads the text at the top of the page. "No1 FOR SUPERMODELS' COMMUNIST GRANNIES."
And what judge could injunct that?
The 
