Thursday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Camilla Cavendish: Child protection? No, ruination
• Matthew Parris: That's the Britishness I love
• Alice Miles: Once, Chancellors wrote Budgets
• Robert Crampton: J'accuse: passport queues
• Melanie McDonagh: Are women finally seeing sense?
• Bronwen Maddox: Right man ... for the wrong job?
• Sandra Parsons: What's wrong with a love of being British?
• Peter Riddell: The Chancellor delivers a modest Budget - and has plenty to be modest about
• Ann Treneman: An incredible talent to be stupendously, doggedly ... dull

And from the rest of the papers...

• Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - David Cameron must get tribal to win
• Bryony Gordon: (The Telegraph) - Recycle properly or go to hell: it's only fair
• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Labour declares war on the middle class
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - No cant, please, we're British. But we do need a better sense of citizenship
• Seumas Milne: (The Guardian) - Either Labour represents its core voters - or others will
• Frances Leviston: (The Guardian) - This great poets list has only one woman. About right, too
• Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - Now was not the time to pick a fight with the City
• Steve Richards: (The Independent) - A dull Budget but one that sets out the political battle lines of the next election
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - What wouldn't Clinton do to secure power?
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - So boring he even stupefied himself
• John Gapper: (The Financial Times) - How the fighter knocked himself out

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - The Spitzer scandal has undermined my confidence as a voter
• Nicholas D. Kristof: (The New York Times) - Do as he said. Spitzer and prostitution.
• George F. Will: (The Washington Post) - Running-Mate math
• Editorial: (International Herald Tribune) - Serbia's choice: Isolation or the EU
• Dorothy Rabinowitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - Obama on offense
• Editorial: (The Toronto Star) - Soaring Afghan costs

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

Gail Collins on the-soon-to-be-ex-Governor: Eliot Spitzer, a star prosecutor, knew a great deal about how people hide evidence. And in his personal dealings with prostitutes, he believed he had rendered himself untraceable: he chose a "high-class" ring because he knew it was zealous about secrecy. But he reckoned without his banks and the Internal Revenue Service, which in these times of money laundering and surrepititious terrorist finance, have developed sophisticated computer and other techniques. It was his unorthodox tranfer of sums of money, which brought the Governor to their attention and then to that of the FBI.