[Youngian]

Axel Springer, a German media group

A business rather than a multi-millionaie weirdo buying political influence. Don't know why they believe the Telegraph is worth half a billion.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Is that good or bad? remember when the Mirror group bought the Express, we all had hopes of change but the cynicism of capitalistic ventures won out.

[satnav]

I'd love to know how the Express makes any money. It currently has a circulation of less than 100,000 and most of its readers are gammon. Do advertisers really pay good money to appeal to gammon readers?

[Oboogie]

Do advertisers really pay good money to appeal to gammon readers?

Depends what they're flogging. I've not looked at a copy of The Express for nearly 30 years but the ads will be correctly targeted for the demographic, any that aren't will be quickly pulled - that's how advertising works.

[Dalem Lake]

Probably the same stuff they flog on daytime telly: stairlifts, comfortable slacks, and memorabilia coins.

[Abernathy]

Baths with a door in them, funeral plans.

[Boiler]

All of which you'll see watching anything on Talking Pictures TV; that, and Dormeo mattresses.

[The Weeping Angel]

Maybe we need a Daniel Hannan headline generator.

[Tubby Isaacs]

This stuff writes itself. Pick out some things you don't like about the government. Spin into "hates Britain". Are hereditary peers in the Lords popular outside the Telegraph? I doubt it. That must be a lot of people who hate Britain. And the Bank of England are doing the bank notes thing, not the Government.

Otherwise, that headline hangs together really well. I suppose we should be thankful he got "restrict" jury trials rights, unlike someone on a neigbourhood forum who said they were being abolished.

[Rosvanian]

The likes of Hannon, Hitchens et al. all never consider the possibily that we were never that fucking good to start with.

[Boiler]

Maybe we need a Daniel Hannan headline generator.

And an Allister Heath one too.