Papers mull Cameron's performance

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Many of Thursday's papers consider David Cameron's closing speech to the Conservative Party conference.

While the Times says he made his pitch for a new generation, the Daily Telegraph remarks how he has killed Tory taboos on gays and single parents.

The Guardian's Simon Hoggart highlights how Mr Cameron spent more time praising the Labour government than abusing it.

Matthew Engel in the Financial Times is prompted to ask: "Which party is this, for heavens sake?"

Cameron's 'buzzwords'

Some of the papers used their mathematical brains in an attempt to deconstruct the Tory party conference.

The Daily Telegraph, Times and Independent all count up some of what they call the "buzzwords" of David Cameron's speech.

The Times also counted the non-white faces in the audience - one in 40 - and the number of non-white faces on the podium behind Mr Cameron - one in nine.

And the Telegraph compared the decibel levels in his speech with those of Tony Blair's final conference speech.

'Wishful thinking'

The papers are split over claims that the IRA has given up terrorism.

The Independent describes it as "welcome proof that even the most intractable of conflicts can in time lose their fire and their deadly heat".

But the Telegraph says it is "wishful thinking of an extreme order" to think they have all given up crime.

The Daily Mirror concludes that "history will never forgive those who refuse to seize an opportunity to create a hopeful future".

Rubbish stories

The lead story in several of the papers is rubbish - at least, the use of microchips by councils to monitor it.

While the Daily Mail regards it as a tax on your dustbins, the Daily Express labels councils "dustbin spies".

The Sun gives over its front page to the story of a Muslim police officer who was reassigned because he did not want to guard the Israeli embassy.

One former officer tells the paper it is "the beginning of the end for British policing".