Hopefully, you'll have remembered to put your clocks back and enjoy the extra hour in bed. And, as we now enter a period of dark, long nights, here's the round-up of what is in today's Sunday papers.
The Sunday Express focuses on what it calls "a chilling report" from the respected Open Europe think-tank which will be published later this week which, the newspaper states, will warn that the European Union plans to bring in "a spy state" which will severely and negatively impact on our civil liberties.
The Mail on Sunday runs with a story which claims that Labour deliberately and "dishonestly" concealed a plan to allow mass immigration into Britain. Laying Jack Straw and Tony Blair squarely at the centre of the charge, the newspaper cites Andrew Neather - apparently a former adviser to Jack Straw - who claims that the "secret Government report in 2000 called for mass immigration to change Britain's cultural make-up forever". The report also states that Labour chiefs deliberately aimed to accuse the Conservatives of being racist if they had voiced any opposition to mass immigration... sounds quite similar to the Labour tactic over the Conservative Party's new grouping in the European Parliament.
The Sunday Times speculates on whether we are about to enter another "winter of discontent" following the gloomy economic figures of a couple of days ago which showed that Britain is still in recession. First in, last out. Remember all the "well placed to weather the economic storm" rhetoric? Gormless has presided over the longest recession since records began... and now we're about to see a plethora of industries hit by industrial action.
The Observer has a report which could well worry David Cameron and the Conservatives. It cites analysis from Labour strategists who believe that support for UKIP will cost the Conservative Party in the region of fifty or so seats at the forthcoming General Election. The report suggests that UKIP will target key marginals where the Conservative candidate will not offer a referendum in any circumstance over the hated Lisbon Treaty. And still, bizarrely, the Conservatives won't tell the public what they will do if Lisbon is in effect when and if they win power.
The Sunday Telegraph continues to run with reaction to the BNP leader Nick Griffin's appearance on Thursday's edition of the BBC show Question Time. The newspaper claims that the decision to invite the BNP onto the programme was as much to do with production company Mentorn chasing ratings as it was anything to do with the BBC fulfilling any impartiality remit. The episode attracted an audience estimated at eight million - the highest in the history of the political debate show.
The Independent on Sunday has a report on Obama's decision to declare "swine flu" a "national emergency". Interestingly, the implications of such a declaration are somewhat scant. While the IoS states that the declaration "will make it easier for US medical facilities to handle a surge in patients," there are no other details of the implications of the proclamation.
And finally... the News of the World claims that Her Majesty The Queen has "declared war" on the BNP over their use of Winston Churchill's image. The tabloid claims that Her Majesty "has ORDERED all the royals to join forces with her to unite Britain against hated BNP leader Nick Griffin". All very well, ma'am, but have you read the Bill of Rights and what do you think of Britain signing the Lisbon Treaty in light of having read it?
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