Peter Wilby in The Guardian attacks the newspapers' tame acceptance of the government's story about Iran's capture of the 15 sailors . "The press has apparently learnt nothing from the dodgy dossiers and phantom WMDs that preceded the Iraq war", he writes. "British governments may be capable of all manner of dissembling over pensions, NHS waiting lists and school exam results but, when they are laying down the law to foreigners, they are still assumed to be as honest as the day is long." An excellent piece.
Stephen Glover in The Independent puzzles over The Guardian's supposed relationship with David Cameron. By contrast, Peter Preston in The Observer takes issue with claims about the re-emergence of a press biased towards the Tories.
In the absence of the Independent on Sunday's regular columnist Peter Cole, there was instead a thoughtful assessment of the BBC's Moira Stuart dramas by Jane Thynne.
