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Today in Times Comment

• David Aaronovitch: Do we really want Bold Labour? All those activists and MPs who want to make Labour more distinctive forget that Labour wins when it is less distinctive
• Libby Purves: The Government cannot be surprised that road pricing is unpopular given the horlicks that it has made of the rest of its transport policy
• Stephen Pollard: Liberal Jews think they are being silenced and Daily Mail columnists moan about political correctness silencing them. Have these people no self-awareness?
• Chris Ayres: The Dixie Chicks are unbelievably irritating. And I'm devoting my column to putting them down
• Mick Hume: Apparently, it's a disgrace that the Government is allowing children to have accidents. Give me a break

And in the rest of the papers…

• George Monbiot: (The Guardian) - How long can Britain's biggest arms company run a secret service and trump the armed forces in political influence?
• Khalid Mish'al: (The Guardian) - The Mecca agreement gives the west the chance to break with its policy of blackmail and recognise Palestinian rights
• Vladimir Putin: (The Guardian) - The US has overstepped its borders in every way. We must build a new world order to ensure security and prosperity for all
• Denis MacShane: (The Daily Telegraph) - I will vote against my party for democracy - The Labour MP explains why he will go into the opposition lobby next week
• Andrew O'Hagan: (The Daily Telegraph) - It might be possible to persuade oneself that the Government does not yet have an air-tight case for road pricing, says. It certainly does not have a secure enough platform from which to dismiss the worries of a million Britons
• Cristina Odone: (The Daily Telegraph) - They prop you up, your Mum and Dad. They give you loans you never need repay, and gifts so generous they will end up eating lentils to their grave
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Peter Hain and the politics of envy
• Miles Kington: (The Independent) - The strange trial of the thespian revolutionary
• Thomas Sutcliffe: (The Independent) - No need to be a dope over a youthful error

And from around the world…

• Richard Cohen: (Washington Post) - I don't want to know how President Bush failed Hillary Clinton. I want to know how she failed her country
• Tunku Varadarajan: (The Wall Street Journal) - Anna Nicole Smith embodied America, and that's not just a metaphor
• Matthew Collin: (Moscow Times) - They were calling it a historic day, but it was a strange few hours that illuminated some of the twisted politics that define the Caucasus
• Gwynne Dyer: (Japan Times) - They used to wall off cities. Now they wall whole countries. The latest one to start building its own "security fence" is Thailand
• Editorial: Before things get any more out of hand, President Bush needs to make his intentions toward Iran clear - New York Times

Comments

[Strewth sez Derry St Op-ed]

Danny Finkelstein writes, "Stephen Pollard: Liberal Jews think they are being silenced and Daily Mail columnists moan about political correctness silencing them. Have these people no self-awareness?" Stephen Pollard, frequent Mail contributor, doesn't mention the Mail anywhere in his piece. By all means smear the Mail, but try not to attrubute your feelings in this regard to SP too. Not really what we'd hope for from the weblog of record, is it?

[Candadai Tirumalai]

At the recent Awards Ceremonies, the Dixie Chicks were acclaimed by Joan Baez, who embodied Protest and Music in the 1960s.
George Bush spent many years in Texas, was elected its Governor, and his ranch-home is located there. And yet some Texans who dislike his policies will point out that since he was born in Connecticut, he is a "Yankee". At least the Dixie Chicks did not deny that he is a Texan.