Friday night in Birmingham, Nigel Farage's conference speech started almost an hour late — counter-terror police on the stage, a search dog behind it, hecklers dragged from the hall once he finally spoke — and by Saturday, West Midlands Police were examining footage of a woman being hit on the head with a crutch and having her hair pulled after she interrupted. One event. Now watch two papers point their cameras in opposite directions. * The Sun, Friday evening: "'SECURITY ALERT' — Nigel Farage's speech at Reform conference in Birmingham delayed over 'security scare'." In this version, all the danger in the room radiates toward the stage. The cops are protecting Farage. The dog is sniffing for Farage. The Sun's own political editor reports the leader "smiling and laughing with his close aides" while the professionals secure his podium. And the people pulled out of the hall? One sentence, passive voice, "reportedly dragged from the hall" — by nobody, apparently, for reasons unknown. * The Mirror, Saturday: "Reform conference sees woman hit on head with crutch and hair pulled in sickening clip." Different camera. This one points into the crowd, at the person the security actually happened to — a protester, wrong or rude as you may find her, who ended the evening with a crutch-shaped headache while police review the tape. (House consistency note: "sickening" is the Mirror smuggling its verdict into the headline again, and we dinged them for that habit yesterday. The footage can be sickening on its own time; the news is that police are examining it.) * And the Sun's Saturday follow-up on the whole scandal-wracked conference? "HITTING BACK — 'They're scared' fumes Farage as he dismisses new scandal as 'loose pub talk'." Stop us if you've heard this one: on Friday we wrote that Channel 4's sting caught his aides discussing a half-million-pound foreign donation, and the Sun's headline caught his fury. Twenty-four hours later — new day, new scandal developments, Scotland Yard now assessing — and the headline is, once again, the weather report from inside Farage's chest. Fuming. Hitting back. One such headline is a news judgment. Two in two days is a mindset. * The Mirror also passed along Nadine Dorries declaring it 'shocking' that there were protesters there at all — printed straight, no eyebrow. Which completes the grammar lesson: in this corner of the press, Farage fumes, Farage hits back, Farage gets guarded by counter-terror police; a woman gets hit with a mobility aid and the scandal is her attendance. * As of Saturday evening, the Sun's politics page carries the channel pact, the security alert and the fury — and no crutch. Maybe it's coming; footage takes time. But the paper that once printed 'GOTCHA' knows exactly what a picture story is. Whether this one qualifies seems to depend entirely on who's holding the crutch.