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Today in Times Comment

• Gerard Baker: When the editorial pages of The New York Times accuse the BBC of bias it is worth taking notice
• Ben Macintyre: Zimbabwe’s crocodile staring at defeat - all tyrannies have a tipping point, a moment when the power of the dictator crumbles
• Margaret Beckett: We want change for the better — joining the millions of Zimbabweans calling for their own Government to listen to its people
• Mary Ann Sieghart: We need to kick out the money men - at the last election the two big parties spent £90 million between them
• Mick Hume: The hot air emitted around global warming marks a new low in the degradation of political language
• Peter Riddell: Taking up Tony Blair’s offer, Sir Hayden Phillips should break the habit of a lifetime and move to the front of the stage

And in the rest of the papers…

• Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - So what exactly is the British nuclear deterrent supposed to protect us against?
• Joan Bakewell: (The Independent) - A poke in the eye of London's art establishment
• Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - Nothing succeeds like lack of success
• Tony Blair: (The Daily Telegraph) - The Union is not a relic of a bygone age, but a quintessentially modern expression of how we find common bridges between diverse peoples
• Jeff Randall: (The Daily Telegraph) - The tendency to play the race card as a reaction to disappointment, difficulty or misfortune is corroding Britain from within
• Charles Clover: (The Daily Telegraph) - The green war begin this week with a puff of smoke and a few misplaced bangs
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - This newspaper has been drawn into a ministerial spat over a regeneration project that became a bonanza for developers
• Frank Luntz: (The Guardian) - The shadow of Tony Blair looms large over politics. Our focus groups talked bitterly about spin and lost opportunities
• Mark Lawson: (The Guardian) - Leaders keen to save the planet have a problem when asked if they're prepared to destroy it

And from around the world…

• E. J. Dionne Jr: (Washington Post) - Evangelicals in the U.S. are starting to put faith before the Republican Party
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - In politics, ideas are more important than people - or at least they should be
• Russell L. Schweickart: (New York Times) - There are thousands of space objects that could hit Earth in the next century that could cause severe damage, if not total destruction
• Editorial: Building of Jewish colonies on occupied land is the main obstacle to peace in the region - Gulf News