Friday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Ben Macintyre: Young lives snuffed out
• Camilla Cavendish: You can't touch tinpot Ken
• Chris Dillow: €4.9 billion? They wouldn't notice
• Giles Coren: This tastes horrid (in my view)
• Mick Hume: Amy can make her own choices
• Bronwen Maddox: Being reasonable about Afghanistan is wishful thinking
• Jane Shilling: Barefaced cheek of exposing de Beauvoir’s derriere
• Peter Riddell: Sometimes a problem really is an opportunity...for others
• Ann Treneman: The future's bleak, the future's not orange for the permatan man

And from the rest of the papers...

• Alice Thomson: (The Telegraph) - You can't bribe fat people to go on a diet
• Jeff Randall: (The Telegraph) - This is banking - but not as we know it
• Daniel Hannan: (The Telegraph) - MPs can't distinguish right from legal
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Forget saving it for the nation - great art must be freed from the vaults
• Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - For political vacuity and ineptitude, Labour has really excelled this week
• Stuart Rose: (The Guardian) - There are plenty of reasons why Britain still loves M&S
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Behind the mask and hype, a humiliating reverse
• Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - The town that measures life in 15-second intervals
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - He injected life into politics and was a force for good. But Hain should have gone weeks ago
• Richard Littlejohn: (The Daily Mail) - The Cuprinol Kid resigns to spend more time with his suntan ...

And from around the world...

• Editorial Endorsement: (The New York Times) - Primary Choices: Hillary Clinton
• Editorial Endorsement: (The New York Times) - Primary Choices: John McCain
• E.J. Dionne Jr.: (The Washington Post) - The ideas Bill forgot
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - Breaking up is hard to do
• Alex Beam: (International Herald Tribune) - Cordially ignored by the Davos set
• Sophie Gee: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - How the American dream shattered an expat fantasy