Most newspapers will use any excuse to flash their readers a bit of bare lady flesh. File this one alongside “Teenage Girls Celebrate A-level Results Day” and “Attractive Athlete Raises Interest In Otherwise Deathly Dull Sport”. Photograph: Rex Features
Here he is leaving the Leveson inquiry on Tuesday. Other politicians wear shades too but newspapers prefer a snap of Johnson. Probably because it makes him look like Suggs from Madness. Photograph: Peter Macdiarmid
This one’s a real two fingers to office workers. Not only are you trapped at your desk until the sun’s almost vanished, but the people who do have the time to enjoy the weather are so unimpressed they’re sleeping through it. Photograph: David McHugh/Rex Features
Aww. She’s eating an ice cream off a cone, just like we used to do when we were her age! This one emphasises the innocence of summer, allowing us adults to forget that the last time we ate ice cream we were sitting alone on the floor by the freezer, sobbing that nobody would ever love us again. Photograph: Chris Radburn
In this case, a pair of lads leaping into a lake. Editors will pay double for action shots of scantily clad ladies , and there’s an as-yet-unclaimed £1m bounty out for a shot of Alan Johnson diving off a cliff in a bikini. Photograph: Christopher Furlong
A beach so rammed you can hardly spot a single patch of sand. Cruel newspaper editors love to print this picture on weekdays, giving the impression that everyone in Britain has been given the day off. In reality, most of these people are being paid to stand there. I mean you’d have to be really, wouldn’t you? Photograph: Andrew Hasson/Rex Features
Look at this guy: he’s got a fish-slice. Does he keep it with him at all times in the glove compartment? No. He went into his house to get it. From the kitchen. In fact, given that the temperature of the car would have to be at least 62C for this to work, odds are he brought the egg out already fried. Photograph: David Hartley/Rex Features
