Mind your language

The Independent's media commentator, Stephen Glover, may feel a little nervous at the appointment yesterday of Roger Alton as the paper's new editor. The Times reports that Glover wrote in a column in 2006, following Alton's use of colourful language in several interviews: "The editor of The Observer talks like a yob", adding that the Sunday paper was "bursting with stuff I do not want to read". It will be interesting to see how Glover greets Alton's new appointment in his column on Monday.