The Independent has shrunk. Not in content or quality – but in size. So we now have a serious newspaper in a form that is easier to hold. Not that I travel on the tube of course, but it is still less challenging to control the smaller style. Despite the availability of online news, TV and radio, 24-hr news stations, it is still rather nice to have an in-depth analysis of interesting stories. This reflects two things: (a) I am still unwell, so there is time to read more leisurely; and (b) the media are not so obsessed with Hutton at the moment.