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Today in Times Comment

• Daniel Finkelstein: MPs' expenses: a silly squabble
• Alice Miles: Yes! Parenting classes for kids
• Magnus Linklater: 1968: we made a difference
• Mick Hume: Mills and McCartney: the farce
• Cristina Odone: Not the school holidays, please!
• Peter Riddell: These few rotten apples do not ruin the whole barrel
• Ann Treneman: Red Ken is turning a little rusty

And from the rest of the papers...

• Jan Moir: (The Telegraph) - Heather Mills is only fooling herself
• Thomas Harding: (The Telegraph) - Iraq's new army and Britain's soldiers
• Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - What David Cameron is unable to say
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Closure mania ignores the real cost of axing post offices
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - London's election holds the future for progressive politics, not just Ken
• Zoe Williams: (The Guardian) - Food fixation is the real enemy - not Fray Bentos
• Patrick Cockburn: (The Independent) - This is the war that started with lies, and continues with lie after lie after lie
• Rupert Cornwell: (The Independent) - The world's lone superpower is on the wane
• Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - This is serious. But don't panic, it is no worse than other recent downturns
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Let gush the geysers of state extravagance!
• Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - Why today’s hedge fund industry may not survive

And from around the world...

• Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - Black, white & gray
• Wei Jingsheng: (The Washington Post) - China's true face. The host of the Olympics or the thug of Tibet?
• Michael Gerson: (The Washington Post) - A speech that fell short
• Fouad Ajami: (The Wall Street Journal) - No surrender
• Paul A. Samuelson: (International Herald Tribune) - Fending off a long, long slump
• Gabor Steingart: (Spiegel) - Why sex scandals are good for American democracy