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Today in Times Comment

• Libby Purves: Now more than ever, as lines between the sexes blur, what a marriage requires is simple niceness
• David Aaronovitch: The idea that the world journalistically requires broadcast pictures of Diana’s crash is ludicrous
• Gerard Baker: At the time the Republicans lost control of the House of Representatives two of their leaders were called DeLay and Doolittle
• Martin Samuel: They will arrive with Terminal 5. Tiny, pod-like cars that whisk passengers to programmed destinations
• Gerard Baker: Investors have a chance to drive a few more nails into one of the stock market’s more famous aphorisms
• Mick Hume: Someone tell the alcocops where to put their labels
• Jeremy Page: Of all the lurgies that Dr Gupta had been testing for, typhoid was by far the most glamorous

And from the rest of the papers…

• George Monbiot: (The Guardian) - Britain's future prosperity has been hardwired to rising use of transport fuels, without a thought for the supply drying up
• David Clark: (The Guardian) - Brown risks isolation if he plays veto politics in Europe
• Peter Hitchens: (The Guardian) - The real Labour right is dead. But now the Tories have joined the centrist fusion, the ground is laid for a rightwingers' revolt
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - A lesson in how to dig yourself into a hole
• Philip Hensher: (The Independent) - Why do we ignore the bigotry of our neighbours?
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - A dull concept that ministers try to avoid. But public services won't work without it
• Rachel Sylvester: (The Daily Telegraph) - Britain's third party should be floating in a happy hippy haze, instead of finding itself in its worst position for years
• Andrew O'Hagan: (The Daily Telegraph) - I’m left feeling all bruised and vengeful and Republican after finally accepting that Hillary Clinton is not going to ask me to write her campaign song
• Anne Atkins: (The Daily Telegraph) - After contemplating Channel 4's decision to screen Diana: the Witnesses in the Tunnel, I hate the idea of telling people what they can or cannot watch. In principle

And from around the world…

• Richard Cohen: (Washington Post) - George W. Bush is more liberal than you might think
• Peter Berkowitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - The American right is a cauldron of debate; the left isn't
• Allison Arieff: (New York Times) - With summer about to begin, I asked four people — artists, architects and designers — to imagine playgrounds that could attract the modern adolescent
• Niall Ferguson: (LA Times) - Putin's Russia eerily resembles the Weimar Germany that fomented Hitler's rise
• Gerard Henderson: (Sydney Morning Herald) - Mark Latham once categorised Australians who supported the Bush Administration's foreign policy as comprising a conga line of suckholes
• Daoud Kuttab: (Jerusalem Post) - Understanding the Palestinian infighting - There's enough blame to go around, but the context has to be the 40-year-old brutal occupation

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

John Osborne honed anger in his explosive 1956 play, and Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor played a couple who engaged in relentless emotional battle in the film version of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" (1966). Courtesy and niceness came to be seen by some as outdated and insincere. Libby Purves' invitation to bring them back is welcome.