Paper Monitor
09:37 UK time, Wednesday, 15 June 2011
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
David Cameron said he wanted the doctors back in charge, and that is exactly what he got yesterday. The national press and their cartoonists are having a field day with the very public haranguing of Mr Cameron and his deputy Nick Clegg while on visit to a central London hospital.
The says the two men were at the hospital to relaunch their much-maligned health reforms but their "grovelling act was momentarily blown off course".
There they were, sleeves rolled up, chatting to a patient about his hip operation, when consultant orthopaedic surgeon David Nunn burst in and gave them a "withering dressing down" for allowing the news crew to ignore hygiene rules.
It was one of those great moments, which newspapers cannot resist, when a serious political message is overshadowed by a run-in - remember Gillian Duffy and Gordon Brown?
And it also lends itself to plenty of puns. The headlines the story with "Rude operator stitches up politicians' visit". It has several freeze frames of the two men looking totally baffled when the angry doctor bursts on to the ward.
The focused on two pictures - one showing the look of absolute shock on the prime minister's face, and the other showing a bow-tied Mr Nunn pointing his finger.
It was the first day of Royal Ascot yesterday, and according to the , feathers and fascinators emerged as the favourites among the fashionistas. However, there was no pretzel-shaped, show-stealing hat for Princess Beatrice, who went for "elegance over extravagance".
Breaking with tradition, Simon Kelner writes a rather different editorial in the - the concise daily from The Independent. Rather than commenting on the big stories of the day, he talks about how he finds stuff to write about. "This is how my day goes. I ask my colleagues what they think I should write about today, hoping they'll supply the inspiration I'm missing. They scratch their chins for a few minutes..."
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