Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Daniel Finkelstein: Some sage advice: ignore the results
• Alice Miles: Great evil took place in that cellar
• Magnus Linklater: A grin goes a long way in politics
• Carl Mortished: Hurrah! Oil profits are up
• Joe Joseph: Bare white walls? Yes, it's art
• Bronwen Maddox: US blundered by crying wolf and keeping secrets
• Peter Riddell: David Cameron is profiting from 10p tax row, but for how long?
• Ann Treneman: Hubris, that was so last month

And from the rest of the papers...

• Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - Why treat the London election as a joke?
• George Pitcher: (The Telegraph) - Rowan Williams will not be driven out of office
• Jan Moir: (The Telegraph) - Is a Fritzl horror happening in Britain?
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - The only message being sent is of cowardice and stupidity
• Marcel Berlins: (The Guardian) - We like to tell the world how fair our elections are. But the shameful truth is out: postal voting is a farce
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - It's Labour stalwart versus Tory fop - dress rehearsal for the really big one
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - It's the policies that count – and that means Londoners should vote for Ken Livingstone
• Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - We will never have cheap oil again
• David Steel: (The Independent) - There is no case for changing the Abortion Act
• Allison Pearson: (The Daily Mail) - The McCann campaign must NOT go on for ever
• Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - Food crisis is a chance to reform global agriculture

And from around the world...

• Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - Praying and preying
• Thomas L. Friedman: (The New York Times) - Dumb as we wanna be
• Harold Meyerson: (The Washington Post) - Landing the white whale
• Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - Getting to know John McCain
• H.D.S. Greenway: (International Herald Tribune) - Cracking race, I say. Albion tunes in to the saga of Barack and Hillary
• John Sutton: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Guest workers are not the answer, training our own is