What the press commentators are saying...

Peter Wilby in The Guardian points to the space devoted by "our supposedly diverse national press" to the story of Britney Spears shaving off her hair. He writes: "I doubt that, even 10 years ago, the upmarket papers would have given such prominence to a pop star's hair." Stephen Glover, in The Independent, reads sinister implications into the Guardian Media Group's possible sale of all, or part of, Auto Trader magazine. He also touches on the irony of GMG considering private equity groups as likely buyers when GMG's chairman, Paul Myners, last week inveighed against such groups' questionable behaviour. This was also the theme of Peter Preston's column in The Observer. Sadly, there was no Independent on Sunday column by Peter Cole. We missed you Prof.