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HOMEWARD BOUNDER
Just 10 months after the Sun’s Harry Cole was sent to Washington DC to present his show Harry Cole Saves the West, he’s on his way back home.

LEAVER DISEASE
While every other newspaper splashed with the prime minister’s resignation on the morning of Tuesday 23 June, the Daily Express stuck to its old obsession.

EDEN PROJECTS
Daily Mail diarist Richard Eden has attacked rival royal correspondents, who he claims copied scoops from a WhatsApp group run by the Sussexes’ spin-doctor.

RITE OF SPRINGER
Publisher Axel Springer has taken full control of the Telegraph, and its CEO enthused to staff about his plans for “our AI-powered digital transformation”.

THE MAX FACTOR
The Mail ran pages on how the Guardian’s ex-editor “prostituted” Oxford University “to solicit blood money” from “the orgy-loving Max Mosley”.

TUBE TIED
The Telegraph is strangely animated over government plans to oblige YouTube to give prominence in the UK to programmes from public service broadcasters.

FORSAKEN IDENTITY
A Guardian survey of freelance contributors asked to state their sex, with the only options available being “Female”, “Male” and “Prefer not to disclose”.

HACKWATCH
Has the press have fearlessly been holding PM-not-elect Andy Burnham to account? Er, if it includes comment on his fashion sense, it has…

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Retail therapy
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King’s ransom
The inside story of Brian and Buckingham Palace

Local trouble
The dangers of Burnham’s regional devolution

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