Stephen Glover in The Independent launches a full-frontal assault on The Spectator's chief executive Andrew Neil , accusing him of hating the magazine. Peter Wilby in The Guardian contends that papers "do not explain business and finance terribly well", arguing that coverage of the Footsie's ups and downs is inadequate.
Peter Preston in The Observer details various plausible reasons for the Daily Mail's sudden sales fall and suggests it "may only have hit a blip, not a brick wall." Peter Cole in the Independent on Sunday points out that climate change reporting reveals that papers "seem to think, crudely, that upmarket equals concern and downmarket complacency".
