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So the hypothetical question is "how many pictures of Pippa Middleton can you fit across two pages of the Daily Mail?"

And the answer is eight, and there's still room left over for three adverts. It's a tongue-in-cheek, vaguely Craig Brown-esque skit in Pippa's own voice, under the headline: "How to party like Pippa!".

Then we've got a big picture of Tamara Ecclestone lounging on a Ferrari in a fairly brief dress.

With so much pictorial stimulation being pushed at the reader, it's a miracle they have any energy left to read any articles.

Let's go to the Guardian for the serious news. Our eye first falls on... "Pippa's guide to the perfect party". It's a tongue-in-cheek, vaguely Craig Brown-esque skit in Pippa's own voice. Albeit, with a few less pictures than the Mail.

Well, there are definitely some interesting words in the Times, courtesy of Ben Macintyre. It's a nice idea, addressing the much-circulated rumours about Sir Jimmy Savile as a way into the increasing intolerance of eccentrics.

Macintyre quotes JS Mill and dubs the conformist legions as "anti-oddness lynch mob". He nicely segues into the media treatment of Christopher Jefferies, the original suspect in the Jo Yeates case. He was released without charge and was entirely innocent of any involvement.

"His crime was to have slightly longer hair than is traditional for men of his age."

The result was that he was dubbed "weird", "posh", "loner", and "creepy".

You have to take your hat off to Macintyre. It's all very intelligently done.

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