Tuesday, July 08, 2008


Both the Times and the Telegraph lead with David Cameron's speech in Glasgow East yesterday

David Cameron tells the fat and the poor: take responsibility says the Times

David Cameron declared yesterday that some people who are poor, fat or addicted to alcohol or drugs have only themselves to blame.
He said that society had been too sensitive in failing to judge the behaviour of others as good or bad, right or wrong, and that it was time for him to speak out against “moral neutrality”.

The Telegraph reports that

Mr Cameron made the unexpected denunciation of political correctness while campaigning for the Tories in Glasgow East where his party will struggle to keep their deposit in a by-election there in two weeks time.
However, Mr Cameron used the opportunity to make his point in a constituency that Labour would never expect to lose, but is now under fierce pressure from the SNP.


The Guardian concentrates on the vote at the Church of England

The Church of England was thrown into turmoil last night over the issue of women bishops, as it rejected proposals that would have accommodated clergy strongly opposed to the historic change.
In an emotional, sometimes bitter debate lasting more than seven hours, the General Synod voted against introducing separate structures and "superbishops", to oversee parishes opposed to women bishops, because they were seen as amounting to institutionalised discrimination


The Telegraph reports that

After six hour of emotional debate, one bishop broke down in tears saying he was ashamed of the church for ignoring the deeply felt wishes of traditionalists.
The Rt Rev Stephen Venner, the Suffragan Bishop of Dover, was comforted by other church leaders on the floor of the General Synod in York as its 468 members took a major step towards women becoming bishops, with just an unwritten statutory code of practice to cater for those who firmly believe the Bible teaches that bishops must be male, as Jesus and his apostles were.


Exclusive: Brown's £7.5bn black hole says the front page of the Independent

The Chancellor is facing a £7.5bn black hole in his Budget for next year as a result of the economic downturn, an analysis of Treasury figures for The Independent has found.
The black hole means that Alistair Darling will either have to raise tax, cut spending or borrow more. Borrowing such sums risks stoking inflation and a further rise in interest rates.
adding

The black hole is the equivalent of cutting 57,000 teaching jobs, cancelling the two giant aircraft carriers ordered by the MoD, and closing five hospitals. It is also the equivalent of adding 2p to the basic tax rate.


There is much coverage of the G8 summit

G8 agrees climate change deal to halve emissions says the Guardian

The communique also said mid-term goals would be needed to hit the shared target for 2050, but that it would be up to individual countries to adopt them.
Last year the G8 only agreed to "seriously consider" a cut of 50% by 2050.
The signing of the statement means that attention now shifts to the UN-led climate change talks that are set to conclude in Copenhagen in December 2009. These talks are due to set a framework for a deal to replace the Kyoto protocol when it expires in 2012.


Over caviar and sea urchin, G8 leaders mull food crisis says the Independent

Shortly after calling for us all to waste less food, and for an end to three-for-two deals in British supermarkets, Gordon Brown joined his fellow G8 premiers and their wives for an eight-course Marie Antoinette-style "Blessings of the Earth and the Sea Social Dinner", courtesy of the Japanese government


The story makes the front of the Mirror which reports

Gordon Brown and fellow world leaders were accused of stunning hypocrisy yesterday as their summit to discuss a growing global food crisis kicked off with a lavish eight-course banquet.
The heads of the eight most powerful nations were served 18 different dishes at a luxury hotel on Hokkaido island, northern Japan - including one starter with nine different foods.




Meanwhile the Telegraph reports

Meat and milk prices will rise to reflect environmental costs

A Cabinet Office review of food policy suggests that farmers and consumers should pay extra for farm goods that generate large amounts of greenhouse gases such as methane and nitrous oxide.
The proposal, the latest in a string of "green" plans that threaten to increase the cost of living, drew accusations that ministers were imposing taxes and regulations in the name of environmental policy.


Max Mosley's face appears on the front of many of the papers,Perfectly Harmless Private activity says the Mail

The bizarre sex life of motorsport supremo Max Mosley was described to a court in all its lurid detail yesterday.
He admitted indulging in sadomasochism and corporal punishment - and paying women to act out fantasies with him.
But the 68-year-old son of Fascist leader Oswald Mosley strongly denied a Sunday newspaper's claim that one of those fantasies was a 'sick Nazi orgy' in which he played the roles of a concentration camp commandant and a cowering inmate. And he calmly defended his sexual preferences as 'perfectly harmless'


The Sun reports that

MOTOR racing boss Max Mosley yesterday admitted to a court he was hooked on kinky sex – but insisted Nazis were a turn-off.
Mosley, 68, who is suing over loss of privacy after he was filmed in an orgy with hookers, told how he was interested in S&M from a young age.
He said he got a “thrill” out of being spanked by scantily clad prostitutes and beating them, insisting it was “a perfectly harmless activity”.


Another face on the front pages is that of Eli Calil who in the Telegraph says

Simon Mann has only himself to blame for the coup attempt that has put him behind bars, according to the secretive businessman he accused of masterminding the conspiracy.
Ely Calil, breaking his silence about the tangled affair to The Telegraph, also said that Sir Mark Thatcher had "absolutely nothing" to do with the attempted coup. Mann named Baroness Thatcher's son in court as a financier of the alleged plot and a member of its "management team".


The Times reports that

The former SAS officer did not flinch as the sentence was delivered, although it was even longer than the 31 years requested by the prosecution at his five-day trial last month. He was also fined the equivalent of £119,000.
Mann, 56, will serve his sentence in Black Beach prison in the Equatoguinean capital of Malabo, and will almost certainly die there if he has to serve it all. He has already served nearly four years in Zimbabwe’s equally notorious Chikurubi prison


Knife Crime on the front of the Express which reports that

Britain’s knife crime epidemic claimed another victim yesterday when a boy of 14 died after being stabbed by a gang.
David Idowu was attacked after getting caught up in a feud between youths from rival schools during a game of football.
He is the 19th teenager to die violently in London this year.
however the paper adds


despite the shocking recent wave of killings it emerged yesterday that new rules could see knife-carrying thugs escape with just a fine.


Tarantino murders: Suspect with burns to hands and face walks into police station and gives himself up reports the Mail

The 33-year-old was arrested on suspicion of murder after walking into a police station in South London, not far from the scene of the killings, at about 2am.
He was seen by a police doctor and transferred to hospital for treatment to his injuries. Scotland Yard confirmed he was being treated for burns. The man, the second to be arrested, walked into Lewisham police station hours after the release of an e-fit of a slim, white man in his 30s seen running from the scene at the same time as the explosion.


The Guardian reports,Magistrates told to be tough on knives

The appeal court ruling from Sir Igor Judge will blunt the impact of new sentencing guidelines for magistrates, which come into effect on August 4, and suggest that a fine or community order may be appropriate for some adult offenders guilty of carrying a knife, as long as the blade was not being used to threaten or frighten anyone


The Sun leads with Madonna's Hanky Panky Yankee

BASEBALL star ALEX RODRIGUEZ “emotionally abandoned his wife and children”, divorce papers have claimed.
The 32-year-old New York Yankees hero – worth £225million – has been linked with Hung Up singer MADONNA.
And wife CYNTHIA’s lawyer Maurice Kutner said his association with the superstar was “the latest situation in a series of events” that doomed their six-year marriage.


Finally the Independent reports that

A couple of decades ago the advice to those who were depressed and out of work was to get "on yer bike". Today it is as likely to be to get on the couch.
Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) has revolutionised the way doctors approach the treatment of depression.now CBT itself is under attack. A group of leading psychotherapists has warned that CBT is being used as a catch-all solution to depression and that patients are missing out on other forms of therapy which might be more suitable for them
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