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Today in Times Comment

• Alice Miles: Citizenship: a British farce
• Daniel Finkelstein: Choosing a deaf baby is criminal
• Magnus Linklater: Happiness: we can choose it
• Bernard Kouchner and Carl Bildt: Why Serbia will join the EU
• Hugo Rifkind: Bloggers: the private goes public
• Peter Riddell: A tricky case of economic Schadenfreude
• Ann Treneman: The Newt King awakens the spirit of Gordon Gekko

And from the rest of the papers...

• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - The elderly poor in Alistair Darling's budget
• Anthony Seldon: (The Telegraph) - All of Britain's schools should be independent
• Daniel Hannan: (The Telegraph) - Labour's oaths and flags do not a nation make
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - They preach citizenship, but are terrified of losing power
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - To rescue the two-state solution, Israel must make peace with Syria
• Mark Lynas: (The Guardian) - Britain is stealing the US crown of No 1 climate villain
• Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - In the face of a downturn, Darling will only make matters worse if he pushes up taxes
• Stephen Hale: (The Independent) - We've reached the moment of truth on climate change
• Mark Steel: (The Independent) - Let's be modern and swear an oath to the monarchy
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Like being given a lesson in hygiene by Albert Steptoe
• Editorial Comment: (The Financial Times) - Spitzer the sheriff dies by the sword

And from around the world...

• Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - Ways of the wayward
• Ruth Marcus: (The Washington Post) - Spitzer's tragic flaw
• Ban Ki-moon: (The Washington Post) - The new face of hunger
• Kimberley A. Strassel: (The Wall Street Journal) - Spitzer's media enablers
• Stanley A. Weiss: (International Herald Tribune) - A king's lessons in democracy
• Tim Soutphommasane: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Racial anxiety rules in Britannia