The Bunker – News without the nonsense26 Feb

Hot Take Time Machine – February’s weirdest opinion columns with Miranda Sawyer and Jonn Elledge

We read the columns and the pundits so you don’t have to… On this month’s round-up of the weirdest, worst and occasionally best opinion columns: Brutal takes on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor from Camilla Long (Sunday Times) and Sophie Money-Coutts (Telegraph) while Brendan O’Neill (who else?). Plus: The Telegraph defends child labour, the Mail rages against fare-dodgers, and why the I’s Kate Lister is the best sex columnist on the planet. Paper Cuts alumni Jonn Elledge and Miranda Sawyer join Andrew Harrison to dismantle February’s punditry.

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THE COLUMNS:

• Camilla Long on Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor in the Sunday Times.

• Brendan O’Neill on “The hunting of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor”

• Sophia Money-Coutts – “I know how high society works – and why the Epstein scandal could easily happen again”

• Angus Colwell in defence of child labour in the Telegraph

• Gaby Hinsliff in the Guardian – “Do you remember your first crappy job? Today’s young people would wish for half your luck”

• Kate Lister in the i – Pushing for an open marriage? Check your market worth first

• Dominic Lawson in the Mail – Why on earth would a wealthy banker dodge £5,900 in train fares?

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