Doctors taking industrial action may wish to avoid the papers this morning.
<link> <caption>The Times calls it a "tantrum" </caption> <url href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/" platform="highweb"/> </link> claiming a doctor on £120,000 a year can retire at 60 with an annual pension of £48,000, plus a lump sum of £140,000.
The sums, says the paper, "provoke little pity among their patients".
<link> <caption>The Daily Telegraph's front page says</caption> <url href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/9345634/Doctors-strike-two-thirds-of-doctors-in-retreat.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> support for the strike is "crumbling" with a survey suggesting that two-thirds of GPs' surgeries will open as normal.
'Ill-advised'
There's also a lack of support in the tabloids.
The <link> <caption>Daily Mirror calls the industrial action </caption> <url href="http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/doctors-strike-is-ministers-fault-say-904726" platform="highweb"/> </link> "ill-advised", saying: "Most ordinary people can only dream of a doctor's pension."
The <link> <caption>Daily Express says ever since the BMA</caption> <url href="http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/327893/-67-billion-What-we-must-pay-to-support-the-pensions-of-doctors-who-are-on-strike-today" platform="highweb"/> </link> "ran rings round the Labour government", doctors have neither been "underpaid nor under-pensioned".
The <link> <caption>Daily Mail says pension contributions</caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2162242/Pensions-doctors-strike-cost-67bn-emerges-80-benefits-state-funded.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> for doctors cost the taxpayer £67bn.
'Leftie'
The case of Julian Assange, who is seeking asylum at Ecuador's assembly in London, is covered widely.
<link> <caption>Robert Colville in the Daily Telegraph says</caption> <url href="http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/robertcolvile/" platform="highweb"/> </link> he's a "leftie of the worst sort". "Not since Lembit Opik was stretchered out of a wrestling ring, has a public figure connived so enthusiastically in his own destruction," he writes.
In the <link> <caption>Independent, Joan Smith calls him </caption> <url href="http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/joan-smith/joan-smith-why-do-we-buy-into-this-oneman-psychodrama-7869897.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> a "fabulist". "Someone who stretches and distorts the truth to make himself look exciting" to his diminishing band of followers.
Ukraine appeal
With three days until England's quarter-final against Italy in Euro 2012, <link> <caption>the Times says that, suddenly,</caption> <url href="http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/" platform="highweb"/> </link> "Everyone's making plans for a last-minute weekend break in Kiev."
The holiday company, Thomson, has sold out of day-trip packages to the game.
The <link> <caption>Daily Mail features Alex Mitchell,</caption> <url href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2162102/Doctors-solve-mystery-man-died-laughter-watching-The-Goodies-granddaughter-nearly-dies-rare-heart-condition.html" platform="highweb"/> </link> who died in 1975 after, apparently, laughing too hard at the Goodies on tv.
Almost 40 years on, doctors now believe he was killed by a hereditary heart condition and not the comedians.
