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Today in Times Comment

• Libby Purves: How dare they tell us savers not to panic
• David Bolchover: The legions of office layabouts
• David Willetts: While the old grow richer, the young get poorer
• Chris Ayres: They got Capone in the end, OJ
• Bronwen Maddox: Wishful thinking is not the cure. The fate of most reports on the Middle East is to be quickly forgotten. This one deserves it
• Anatole Kaletsky: A catastrophe has been avoided. Rational people will not leave their money in a bank whose credit is evaporating before their eyes
• Mick Hume: Why are those who protest against the intervention in Iraq demanding more of the same for Sudan?
• Peter Riddell: There is nothing to fear from being positive about Europe
• Ann Treneman: A surprise flirtation for the leader with extra socks appeal

And from the rest of the papers…

• Rachel Sylvester: (The Daily Telegraph) - Lib Dems suffer a Northern Rock moment
• PC David Copperfield: (The Daily Telegraph) - When Bobbies are beating it, we're in trouble
• Andrew O'Hagan: (The Daily Telegraph) - If we need Brat Nav, then we're all lost
• Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - Hammer the rich? If only Ming, or Gordon, meant it
• Jonathan Steele: (The Guardian) - Putin's legacy is a Russia that doesn't have to curry favour with the west
• Rupert Colville: (The Guardian) - Sinking states. What will happen to the thousands of people made legally - and physically - stateless when climate change drives island states beneath the waves?
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - A change in leader won't help the Lib Dems... they are entirely at the mercy of events
• Thomas Sutcliffe: (The Independent) - Our lust for certainty is making us cruel
• Simon Carr: (The Independent) - The Sketch: Are they serious about power, or really just a joke?
• Peter Oborne: (The Daily Mail) - Why Gordon Brown is more of a chameleon than Tony Blair

And from around the world…

• Joichi Ito: (The New York Times) - In Japan, stagnation wins again
• E. J. Dionne Jr.: (Washington Post) - What she learned...the humility in Clinton's health-care plan
• Eugene Robinson: (Washington Post) - It's nice to have Juice back at the center of a world-class, spare-no-expense, fuel-the-helicopters media frenzy
• Karl Rove: (The Wall St Journal) - Republicans Can Win on Health Care
• Bret Stephens: (The Wall St Journal) - Earth to Washington: Mukasey fits the job. Don't screw up this one
• Editorial: (The Moscow Times) - Swapping oligarchs for the West