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Today in Times Comment

• Tim Hames: If only Nick were more of a McClegg
• William Rees-Mogg: And for our next lie . . . the great EU betrayal
• Anjana Ahuja: Depressed? Just read this . . .
• Melanie Reid: The world moves on, and Wibsey weeps into its beer
• Stephen Pollard: High-flown nonsense over terror
• Caitlin Moran: Bring on the Eighties. This time I'm ready for them
• Anatole Kaletsky: Can Alistair Darling get the non-dom dog back on its leash?
• Peter Riddell: Watch for stealth taxes as Chancellor tries to cut debts

And from the rest of the papers...

• Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown's economic omission
• Philip Johnston: (The Telegraph) - Britain must not betray the Commonwealth
• Jim White: (The Telegraph) - Let the happiness backlash begin - in Slough
• Michael Tomasky: (The Guardian) - Can Obama attack a woman without looking like a bully?
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - To tackle sleaze, parliament needs a chief executive
• Madeleine Bunting: (The Guardian) - Labour's handling of legal aid makes a mockery of its rhetoric on fairness
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - Powell's Rivers of Blood are back again
• Andreas Whittam Smith: (The Independent) - It's not only the public who don't respect a uniform
• Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Jodrell Bank's closure proves we no longer tread boldly toward frontiers of science
• Keith Waterhouse: (The Daily Mail) - Just whistle and you'll come to us

And from around the world...

• William Kristol: (The New York Times) - McCain’s daunting task
• Jackson Diehl: (The Washington Post) - What will Bush do about Hugo Chavez funding terror?
• Sebastian Mallaby: (The Washington Post) - Watching the global economy right now is a bit like watching the lead-up to the Iraq war
• Brad Schiller: (The Wall Street Journal) - The inequality myth
• Daniel Mendelsohn: (International Herald Tribune) - Stolen suffering
• Takamitsu Sawa: (The Japan Times) - Get set for emissions trading

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

William Cristal on John McCain: Some would say of course that it is the advice of neo-conservatives like Mr. Cristal which has landed George Bush in trouble. John McCain has the President's endorsement, which will help him rally the Republican base, with whom George W. is still popular. On the other hand, as the Senator's late arrival at the White House for the endorsement may have suggested, leaving the Presidert tap-dancing, he will put some distance between the two. Commentators have remarked that McCain's forthcoming visit to Europe and his conferences with European leaders will present him in a Presidential light while the contest for the Democratic nomination drags on. And McCain needs to improve his mastery of economic matters, since American voters now regard the economy as their most pressing concern. He has been trying to allay worry about his age by appearing with his mother, who is in her nineties and still physically and mentally alert. He has, by implication, longevity genes.