Paper Monitor
10:58 UK time, Tuesday, 29 May 2012
A service highlighting the riches of the daily press.
There are few things Paper Monitor enjoys more in life than a headline so comprehensive there is little need to read the accompanying article. So imagine your humble columnist's delight at this gem from the Mail Online:
Barrister son of top lawyer in cocaine and ecstasy shame (... but he is let off with just a police caution and gets to keep his job)
- Henry Mostyn is son of former top divorce lawyer Sir Nicholas Mostyn QC, nicknamed 'Mr Payout' for his big money settlements
- Eton and Oxford-educated Mostyn fined £605 by a legal disciplinary panel for possessing drugs only weeks after being called to the Bar
- Mostyn was arrested by police as he queued for an east London nightclub
- Sir Nicholas walked out on his wife to live with divorce lawyer Elizabeth Saunders, whose barrister husband was shot dead during a siege in 2008
(Sadly it has been streamlined from an earlier labyrinthine effort, which was, as broadcaster Danny Baker pointed out on Twitter last night, an "impenetrable Escher staircase of a headline" that packed in the son, the drugs, the QC, the divorce lawyer he left his wife for AND her own husband's dramatic death - all in one line. Paper Monitor did not think to take a screengrab.)
What is it in the newspaper itself?
Barrister son of top lawyer in cocaine and ecstasy shame But he is let off with just a police caution and gets to keep his job
The Daily Telegraph, too, is fond of both over-explanatory headlines and multi-lawyer pile-ups. Its headline:
Judge's son caught with cocaine weeks after qualifying as a barrister
The U-turn on pasty tax is another opportunity for the sub-editors of Fleet Street to work their special magic:
"PASTY LA VISTA, TAXMAN" - the Sun, which has also named its campaign "Who VAT all the pies?"
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Hungry now.
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