The cover story addresses Nick Clegg’s internship blunder, and leaves the Deputy Prime Minister, despite his good intentions, looking like a hypocrite. While the coverage is not overly suggestive, the succinct inclusion of quotes and facts make it hard to think otherwise.
The intelligent use of graphics in business news that are individually tailored to the topic under review complements the way in which the sale of the crisp giant Pringles is reported. The graphic acts as a useful reference point, making the information in the article by Peter Stiff easier to digest.
The sport section is a dominated by Tottenham’s crushing 0-4 defeat to Real Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. The varying layouts keep the content looking fresh, for example, the players’ rating pages. There is a vast amount of text; thankfully, however, a cocktail of large and small images culminate in an aesthetically pleasing balance. Nonetheless, the addition of a graphic outlining the moves leading to the goals would have helped, and would have guaranteed that the articles do not become verbose.
Finally, as further ridiculous and surreal revelations involving Silvio Berlusconi are uncovered in the run-up to his latest trial, stories on showjumping cows may not be needed to draw wry smiles.
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