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LESS IS MOIR
Columnist Jan Moir was denied her usual soapbox in the Mail to comment on Earl Spencer’s memoir. Could it be because the paper has serialisation rights?

GET UP AND GOVE
A new hire is making his mark on the Mail sports desk – stand up Will Gove, son of Tory grandee Michael and, coincidentally, Mail columnist Sarah Vine.

MISERABLE RETCH
Say goodbye to pop-up misery as beleaguered publisher Reach plc reverse-ferrets on its news strategy. One thing hasn’t changed: swingeing job cuts.

SOLAR ECLIPSE
Andy Burnham seems to have adopted a principled stand on granting the Sun “no special favours”. Shame nobody told the rest of his cabinet.

PRESS GANG
Reform UK often complains about unfair treatment by the “mainstream media”, yet its relationship with the Telegraph and other establishment titles is, er, cosy.

ECHO CHAMBER
More on the “alliance” between Bournemouth’s Daily Echo and a local anti-migrant vigilante group, as the paper tells readers how to join protests.

TOPPLING OFF ITS PERCH
All quiet at Corbynite news site the Canary: the print edition lasted a fortnight, and financial woes mean workers have nothing to lose but their incomes.

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Oxfamine
The charity’s ill-starred online shopping venture

Rich tapestry
Peter Thiel and George Osborne’s shared interests

Friends with benefits
Angela Rayner’s puzzling fondness for data centres

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