Paper Monitor
11:13 UK time, Tuesday, 9 October 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
It's the Conservative conference and, rest assured, the newspapers are lending the occasion the kind of forensic analysis for which they are renowned.
"Let the policy wonks at the Conservative Party conference argue about deficit reduction and employees' rights," in a full page lead.
"There are far more pressing matters to deal with, namely, can Samantha Cameron really get away with turning up to conference . . . in a pair of skinny jeans?"
With a level of scrutiny once devoted to footage of official Soviet functions by CIA Kremlinolgists, every effort is devoted to sourcing the origins of Mrs C's outfit.
The denims could be Topshop, we are loftily informed, and the "smart money" is on them being a pair of Moto Baxter, in indigo, yours for £40.
This is, apparently, a bold move. In the history of leaders' wives at party conferences, "not even Cherie Blair at her most subversive" appeared in jeans. Michelle Obama received "mixed reviews" on the rare occasions she did so, Ostler says.
But it's not just Samantha Cameron who is under scrutiny this week.
Her husband is, too. For setting up his own Twitter account.
In the Daily Telegraph, Bryony Gordon to @David_Cameron on how to use the social networking site effectively:
It doesn't work if you only tweet promotional pictures of yourself with nurses, or messages about how brilliant your Chancellor's Conference speech is going to be. It doesn't work if you only follow Tory MPs (though it is interesting to see which ones Cameron doesn't follow), and it doesn't work if you're not willing to vent your spleen about: The X Factor; Downton Abbey; Question Time; Kay Burley. And do we really want our Prime Minister wasting his time with all that?
Apparently there will be some policies and suchlike launched in Birmingham this week, too.
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