Tuesday 21 February 2012

Turing meets Kipling and a guide to British newspapers

Commuting back and forth on the London Underground, or Tube, we have occasion to pick up cast-off copies of various newspapers that people leave behind on the train. (And yes, The Sun really does have a nudie pic on page 3.) This evening, it was The Daily Telegraph and this was the article I read on the way home:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9093910/How-did-the-leopard-get-its-spots-Codebreaker-Alan-Turing-was-right-all-along.html

To orient me to all the British newspapers, Mordu shared the following dialogue from an episode of the BBC comedy Yes, Prime Minister:

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press, I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; the Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; the Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; the Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and the The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.
Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?
Bernard:
 Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

A train pulling into the Colindale Station. We live at Golders Green which is a very similar-looking stop.

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