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Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: Labour’s profane thoughts about the economy. Bank of England independence is no longer a sacred cow
• Camilla Cavendish: Pursuing terrorists is bad for your health
• Benjamin Beasley-Murray: Bear-baiting on television: you know it makes sense
• Sandra Parsons: Two men want me. Oh what should I do?
• Matthew Parris: Will Gordon Brown cash in his chips or let us look in the box?
• Robert Crampton: Now let’s all get it off our chests
• Bronwen Maddox: Forget sanctions: China and India hold the key
• Peter Riddell: Independence is the way to win friends
• Ann Treneman: No one is the winner in the battle of the sex symbols

And from the rest of the papers…

• Boris Johnson: (The Daily Telegraph) - Supporting troops needn't mean backing war
• Iain Martin: (The Daily Telegraph) - Gordon Brown's big tent is a creepy place
• Simon Scott Plummer: (The Daily Telegraph) - China could hold key to Burma monks' revolt
• Giles Fraser: (The Guardian) - US bishops have bent the knee to the will of the bully
• Catherine Bennett: (The Guardian) - Gordon Brown likes to preach his father's values. But who wants a sermon aimed at errant children?
• Michael White: (The Guardian) - Making the grade with Middle Britain
• Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - Let's start by admitting we were wrong in Iraq
• Miles Kington: (The Independent) - Blank looks, hoarse whispers and obscure allusions
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - Brown sails serenely on. But if the Tories behave, they could yet pose a threat to him
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - You're not flash Gordon, just boring

And from around the world…

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - In election years, Florida rules the universe. The major presidential candidates spend half their waking hours in Tampa and Daytona Beach.
• John Morrison and Alex Sink: (Washington Post) - The climate change peril that insurers see
• Harold Meyerson: (Washington Post) - Rise of the Have-Nots. Why more Americans are feeling shut out of good times
• Editorial: (The Wall Street Journal) - Bush and Iran. Tehran has been told it will pay a price for killing Americans, but it never has.
• Garrison Keillor: (International Herald Tribune) - Meanwhile: It is never too late to change your water
• Joseph S Nye: (China Daily) - America should focus on global public goods

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

I think that when Sandra Parsons meets the right man she will know without having to reflect on the choice between Gordon and Dave, which she does interestingly. Of course a lot of men and women never meet the right person but that would be my ideal, not that I have realized it, partly because, for various reasons, I decided more than 30 years ago that the single life was best for me.