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Today in Times Comment

• William Rees-Mogg: Gordon Brown is the most unpopular politician in Britain. That is the Labour Party’s problem
• Tim Hames: My impression is that the Union has become a marriage of convenience, verging on the loveless
• Melanie Reid: Everyone is concerned about the increasing carnage on the roads, especially involving young people
• Simon Barnes: I think it is fair to say that the cricket World Cup of 2007 really was the worst sporting event in history
• Anjana Ahuja: Parents of mixed-race children lavish more money on them than parents of same-race children
• Carol Sarler: The good news is that divorce is increasing
• Caitlin Moran: Everything to do with the Midlands has an unintentional, iridescent sheen of hilarity about it
• Ralph Bernard: The consensus is that we will earn £13.5 million [this year]. What do people think I’ve been doing these last two years? Baking cakes?

And from the rest of the papers…

• Gary Younge: (The Guardian) - The Iraq war is over. It is the moment for Democrats to show real leadership
• Max Hastings: (The Guardian) - The hostage fiasco is indicative of just how poorly military top brass understand the demands of national security
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - Gordon Brown will have to sound apologetic and humble after the kicking his party is set to receive at the polls this week
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - A digital bedlam of narcissism and bullying
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - How multiculturalism is betraying women
• Andreas Whittam Smith: (The Independent) - Bayrou's object lesson in how to lead a third party
• David Cameron: (The Daily Telegraph) - The fact that a statist approach to social problems does not mean (as Tony Blair believes) that they are not, in fact, social problems - it just means that the remedy was wrong
• Janet Daley: (The Daily Telegraph) - Britain’s political debate captures the essence of what people feel to be wrong about the way they are being governed
• Sam Leith: (The Daily Telegraph) - Is it outside the remit of the police to start looking into how the press acquired details of terror raids off their own bat?

And from around the world…

• Charles D. Ferguson: (Washington Post) - Will climate change doom humanity to an existence mimicking Dante's Inferno? Will nuclear proliferation threaten humanity with annihilation as depicted in Dr. Strangelove
• Nina L. Krushcheva: (Japan Times) - As an agile political operator, Yeltsin kept the way open for a visionary leader to emerge in Russia. Unfortunately, that leader is not Putin.
• Michael Young: (Lebanon Daily Star) - David Halberstam, Iraq, and the shadow of Vietnam
• Editorial: Dutch rub-out: Wolfowitz and the World Bank's Euro-cabal - The Wall Street Journal