Papers focus on Tory conference

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As David Cameron prepares for his first Tory party conference as leader, the papers demand some substance.

So far David Cameron has done "the easy bit" says the Sunday Times, and now the pressure is on for him to say what the party stands for.

The Tory leader is dismissed as a "lightweight" by both the Sunday Mirror and the People.

The News of the World says his big task is to explain what the "Tory party of 2006" represents.

The Sunday Telegraph sees him differently - "policy can wait" it says; "leadership can't" and it counsels Mr Cameron to go no further than communicating a "sense of direction".

'Britain's Vietnam'

Afghanistan may be shaping up to become "Britain's Vietnam" according to the Mail on Sunday.

But this time, the paper believes the truth is slipping out in emails and DVDs, and says it is "fast turning into the first internet war".

The Sunday Express complains of security surrounding the Birmingham hospital treating wounded service personnel.

It wonders if soldiers are gagged "to stop them exposing operational blunders and dangerous equipment shortages".

The smiling faces of two of the ringleaders of the 9/11 attacks fill the front pages of the Sunday Times.

Despite the deadly tasks they had been assigned, the paper says they appear well-groomed, laughing and smiling in front of the camera.

Senior police officers across Britain now fear that armed teenagers are willing to shoot each other for "trivial motives" says the Observer.

These can include words or actions they regard as showing a lack of respect.

Defining politics

Many politicians claim to enter politics to redefine it, but few are offering a new definition of the word itself.

The Telegraph say one is the country singer, author of detective novels, and candidate for the governor of Texas, Kinky Friedman.

He describes some of policies as jokes which also happen to be good ideas.

On defining politics he claims that "poli" means more than one, while "tics are bloodsucking parasites".