The Mail's Bruni bonus

The papers swoon over Carla Bruni all over again today following the extraordinary Sarkozy circus that hit Britain yesterday. No paper devotes more space to the delectable first lady of France than the Daily Mail, which clears a full six pages to discuss, among other things, Carla's flat shoes, her Jackie O-style pillbox hat and Sarkozy's apparent looks of jealousy as she nattered to the Duke of Edinburgh. There are 14 pictures showing Carla's face, two of her shoes and one of her hand. And one of those pictures - on the front page, no less - is the notorious nude shot that caused Fleet Street a collective spasm of excitement yesterday. But is this is the same Daily Mail that yesterday thought the nipples were too naughty for readers and obscured them with a tricolore marked "censuré"? No such scruples today: the breasts are revealed in all their glory. "What a difference a day makes!" the Mail chortles. Indeed.