Tuesday, 23 June 2009

Tuesday's papers


So much for a fresh start says the Mail which leads as do nearly all the papers with the election of John Bercow as the new speaker.

It says that Bercow is hated by his party, tainted by expenses furore and facing plot to unseat him adding that

Labour MPs took revenge last night for the ousting of Commons Speaker Michael Martin by installing in his place a maverick Tory hated by his own party.


The Times says that he was immediately put on probation by a Tory party that had largely refused to vote for him.

With the Telegraph reminding us that

Mr Bercow has previously announced he would repay £6,500 in capital gains tax after The Daily Telegraph disclosed that he had "flipped" his second home from his constituency address to his London flat.


The Guardian reporting that

Bercow told MPs he was the "clean break" candidate able to draw a line under the expenses scandal that forced his predecessor, Michael Martin, out of office. "I want to implement an agenda for reform, for renewal, for revitalisation and for the reassertion of the core values of this great institution in the context of the 21st century," he said in his appeal for votes.


The tragic face of Iran's uprising says the Independent

Joan of Arc she was not, nor the Unknown Protester who stopped the tanks in Tiananmen Square, because that young man, 20 years ago, chose his fate and his prominence, deliberately stepping out of the crowd into the tank's and the cameras' sights.
Not so Neda: the young Iranian woman whose quick, brutal death from a Basiji militia man's bullet during a demonstration on Saturday created the Iranian uprising's first figurehead chose nothing except to be there.


Finally the Mirror reports on the latest controversy at RBS as it writes that Stephen Hester, who replaceds shamed Fred “the Shred” Goodwin will pocket the massive sum of a £9.3million incentive deal.

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