UFOs and Kylie's Bum

Further to the below there appears no quality differential between the free-for-all papers and those that cost pennies . The friday Daily Mail adopts an open approach to factual standards with "The aliens are coming, warns ex-MOD chief."Apparently while heading the Ministry of Defence 'UFO Project' Mr Nick Pope learned that other lifeforms have visited earth "and more specifically Britain." But having quit defence for a career writing about alien life (is this a euphemism for being institutionalised) Mr Pope is very concerned that MoD cost-cutting is leaving Britain "wide open to aliens". *cough* Luckily page three dealt with more temporal matters - the size of Kylie's bum (3/4 page "Does my bum look big in this? Er, yes, Kylie").

And in an example of the 'time-inconsistency' problem applied to cricket, the Mail's back page seemed not to notice England's flogging in Canberra. Back page headline: "G'day mates, the name's Flintoff" with a pic of exhuberant high-fiving english players - clearly quite early in the game. An article inside ("Aussies running out of players") draws a connection between the rural drought and the imminent demise of Australia's cricket geritocracy. Apparently all Aussie cricketers drive combine harvester and crop dusters in their spare time. Stereotype is a powerful thing!