Today in Times Comment

• Matthew Parris: Historians will boggle at our times; we are living in the mysterious era of the phantom PM
• Janice Turner: Commuting is heroic - and it's time to abolish it: our children will not put up with the strain
• Giles Whittell: Did you hear the one about the man with broken legs who was sent home by doctors and told to take a couple of aspirin and some exercise? Well, it tells you a lot about the perils of diagnosis and physical endurance
• George Walden: Blair, Segolene, Obama, Cameron… the rise and rise of the political smirkers
• Simon Barnes: It's birdwatch weekend - and I started at Minsmere in all its glory
• Graham Stewart: After Royal's royal gaffe, we must not forget the Kennedy cock-ups

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

George Walden has written a delighfully phrased article. The smile is the anaesthesia which the politician always has at hand and is ready to administer.