Have i Got News For You

I bought a copy of the new i paper this morning, partly because I agree with dickon_edwards that it's about time a newspaper was named after a Magnetic Fields album. The man at the stall asked me if it was any good. "I don't know! I'm buying it to figure that out," was my reply.

My verdict: better than the freebies content wise, but not much different from them in style or range and definitely London-centric. If anything, there's more variety in the Metro (more gossip and weird news) whereas the i paper regurgitates stories throughout its pages (e.g. Take That and Robbie Williams tour story in the first few pages, which then reappears towards the end - same with the story of the giant stag, which appears on the front page, page 2, page 4, and probably a few other ones.) Surely there's enough content out there to stop repetition?!

Things I've learned: Cheryl Cole's hooker tights from Sunday night sold out after her performance and that Cherie Blair has put an autograph of Tony Bliar up for sale on eBay for 10 quid.

I was tempted to leave it on an empty seat in the tube, beside a copy of the Metro, and see what people went for first. But my £0.20 expenditure made me bring the copy into the office with me.