Paper Monitor
11:05 UK time, Monday, 8 August 2011
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But it would be remiss not the record Observer by columnist Nick Cohen about the apparent lack of civil unrest in the face of austerity measures, under the headline "No riots in Britain":
These arrant insults ought to push the most mild-mannered people into revolt. Yet in Britain they provoke only students to riot. The wider public remains resigned rather than enraged; indifferent rather than incandescent.
Mr Cohen has, of course, unfavourable copy deadlines to blame for this untimely reportage, given the weekend's events. And it seems economic policy is not being blamed for the disturbances in London.
But nonetheless, the timing could have been better.
A man who knows all about good timing is veteran broadcaster Sir Terry Wogan, now in his 74th summer.
the former chat-show host reacts cheerfully to recent rumours on Twitter that he had been killed in a bizarre accident involving a Scalextric set:
I don't even own a Scalextric. I'm not very good with cars. They rebel against me. So I suppose if I did have a Scalextric it would be quite on the cards.
Worrying.
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