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Today in Times Comment

• Ben Macintyre: Bits of dancing rubber. Delicious! The Japanese really know how to eat.
• Kit Malthouse: Problem: Heathrow's in the wrong place
• Libby Purves: They hate you. And they'll get you
• Gerard Baker: The dollar's in decline. Great news!
• Mick Hume: The privacy of your own saddle
• Bronwen Maddox: Why the Annapolis peace talks - and a fear of failure - raise hopes for Middle East
• Peter Riddell: Missing data and economic worries erode faith in Gordon Brown
• Ann Treneman: Flight is the only refuge as the big guns turn on Gordon Brown and Two Jobs Des

And from the rest of the papers…

• Iain Dale: (The Daily Telegraph) - Tories should pledge a vote on being in the EU
• Philip Johnston: (The Daily Telegraph) - Why is the Civil Service a laughing stock?
• Alice Thomson: (The Daily Telegraph) - Scrap benefits, increase tax allowances
• Linda Colley: (The Guardian) - We fret over Europe, but the real threat to sovereignty has long been the US
• Chris Huhne: (The Guardian) - Radicalism will serve us
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Created on a canvas of needless pain: a poet who inspired the underbelly
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Fight climate change? Or stay competitive? I'm afraid these two aims are incompatible
• Joan Bakewell: (The Independent) - We cannot stay silent in the face of this outrage
• Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - Let's ask some foreigners to run the country
• Richard Littlejohn:  (The Daily Mail) - There'll be no Great Escape for you either, Gordon ...

And from around the world…

• David Brooks: (The New York Times) - Someday Rudy Giuliani will look back on this moment and wonder why he shelved one of his core convictions and didn’t run as himself.
• Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - The subprime crisis and the credit crunch are the result of our failure to effectively reform corporate governance
• Eugene Robinson: (Washington Post) - Tattered dream. Who'll tackle the issue of upward mobility in America?
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - People before prophets. We're making too much of politicians' religious faith
• Todd Domke: (International Herald Tribune) - Vote for the first ever (something) ...
• Peter Hartcher: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Scandal adds to humiliation. Australia does not change its government very often.