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CANCEL CULTURE
The Sun criticised the move to speed up a ban on “subscription traps” – which is no surprise given how hard it makes it for customers to cancel subscriptions.

CEUTA CASE
An Express column on flood of people from Morocco to the Spanish city of Ceuta managed to get a host of facts wrong – including the spelling of Ceuta!

POLISHING TURDS
The London Standard has a new podcast series, Thames Unfiltered, sponsored by… prolific sewage spreaders Thames Water.

THE WRONG GOODBYE
The Sunday Times cleared two and a half pages for tributes to late columnist Rod Liddle – but its editor’s own paean was far from poetic.

FLAYING LOWE
Under its new owner the Telegraph is taking aim at Rupert Lowe – but Lowe’s ropey grasp of facts echoes the Telegraph’s own fairly recent pronouncements.

GUSSETTS A GO-GO!
The Telegraph has moaned about benefit claimants getting “discounts on holidays and sex toys”, but its own staff enjoy their own fruity perks.

THE STREET OF BLAME?
The death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday prompted furious finger-pointing from many whose own hands were far from clean.

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