Newspaper review

Sunday newspapers

The gun attack in Arizona which left six people dead and a US congresswoman critically injured makes several of Sunday’s front pages.

The Mail on Sunday speculates that the attack on Gabrielle Giffords might be “linked to her support for abortion”.

The Sunday Telegraph says she is “a gun-owner and supporter of the right to bear arms”.

But despite this, the broadsheet says she had been named as a “political campaign target for conservatives” by former Alaska governor Sarah Palin.

It’s bonus time for Britain’s bankers and few papers are happy about it.

The Sunday Times says the public will also be angry they are rewarding themselves “while the economic mess they created is still playing itself out”.

“The issue of bankers’ pay has become highly toxic at Westminster,” says the Observer.

But Fraser Nelson, in the News of the World, dares to suggest that the cash-strapped government should welcome the bonuses because of the tax that will be paid on them.

The Independent on Sunday devotes its front page to marking the first anniversary of the Haiti earthquake in which 230,000 people died.

Despite billions of pounds in aid, it says the “squalid, dangerous” conditions in which survivors still live are “a festering global scandal”.

“All this in a country which, staggeringly, hosts tourists from cruise ships,” the paper goes on.

“It can supply pina coladas, but not hope to its own people.”

The much-anticipated sacking of Liverpool manager Roy Hodgson dominates Sunday’s back pages.

The Sunday Mirror says Anfield favourite Kenny Dalglish – chosen as caretaker – is on an SOS mission.

But the Sunday Express warns that the enormity of the task in hand “could tarnish his glorious reputation” with Liverpool fans.

“Kenny goes from a pleasure-boat passenger to captain of the Titanic”, writes the Sunday People.

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