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Today in Times Comment

• Daniel Finkelstein: 1968 violence: blame the bulge
• Alice Miles: Elect Ant and Dec to Parliament
• Magnus Linklater: The Army must go into schools
• Roy Hattersley: Englishness: no fuss, please
• Carol Midgley: Disneyland: not a small world
• Richard Morrison: Seize the day - as night will fall before you know it
• Ann Treneman: Is that the rumble of war or the trembling of a lip?
• Peter Riddell: Important changes under way, but who cares?

And from the rest of the papers...

• Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - Does Gordon Brown need Nicolas Sarkozy?
• Richard Spencer: (The Telegraph) - China is blind to the hostility it can arouse
• Irwin Stelzer: (The Telegraph) - The good and bad in New York and London
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - Brown and Straw's best bet is to go out like Butch and Sundance
• Jenni Russell: (The Guardian) - The NUT has cried wolf too often, but this time it's right
• Marcel Berlins: (The Guardian) - For Brown to boycott the Beijing Olympics would be hypocrisy
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Do they think we'll go away if they close their eyes?
• Editorial: (The Financial Times) - Medvedev unveils a worthy ambition

And from around the world...

• Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - Hillary or nobody?
• Ruth Marcus: (The Washington Post) - Hijabs at a Harvard gym
• Harold Meyerson: (The Washington Post) - McCain on the red phone
• Peter Hoekstra: (The Wall Street Journal) - Islam and free speech
• Christopher Wolf: (International Herald Tribune) - Setting boundaries
• Renate Flottau: (Der Spiegel) - Fury and tension grip Europe's newest country