With medics filling the front page, I glanced at the weather before turning to the Sport section to look for Giles Smith’s latest sideways look at TV coverage. His droll take on things never fails to brighten the day. Yesterday he gently poked fun at French broadcasting techniques, while a photo backed up his hilarious description of some strange camera work in Game, Set & Mats.
David Aaronovitch featured twice: in the penultimate reign of Queen Elizabeth II supplement, elegantly summing up the Iraq war, Blair’s continuing rise and subsequent fall, and the ongoing War on Terror. His Opinion piece on the parallels between today’s conflict in Syria and that in Bosnia gave food for thought.
As always, Matthew Parris was good value; his views on Tony Blair are well known but were worth another airing in the light of the Leveson inquiry.
My only criticism of yesterday’s paper was Peter Brookes’s cartoon and his swipe at Mitt Romney. There is more to a man than just his faith, no matter how unusual it may be.
There was much to read and little time in which to do so. The articles by Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi, on the Queen as Defender of all Britain’s Faiths and Camilla Cavendish on meritocracy must wait until later.