Friday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Gerard Baker: Exit Clinton. But what a show next!
• Ben Macintyre: Angel of the South: the wrong horse
• Martin Samuel: A beef about BA and spare wheels
• Mick Hume: Cannabis: who cares if it's B or C?
• David Miliband and Bernard Kouchner: Burma: aid before politics, please
• Bronwen Maddox: The old face that is badly in need of a political lift
• Jane Shilling: Why should late bloomers be blighted at the age of 16?
• Peter Riddell: The British view: whoever wins the US election, John McCain is last
• Ann Treneman: How did valiant Vera Baird ever pass for a dull politician?

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Dale: (The Telegraph) - Boris Johnson is serious about London
• Alice Thomson: (The Telegraph) - The country needs more 'private' schools
• Jeff Randall: (The Telegraph) - Unless dozy ministers wake up, the Last Post will sound for Royal Mail
• Ken Livingstone: (The Guardian) - Yes, I lost. But still Labour must learn from London
• Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - Resist the medievalists. Women's right to abortion is a private matter
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - In the battle of the birds, whose side are we really meant to be on?
• David Cameron: (The Independent) - We are the champions of progressive ideals
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - I leave Israel with the sinking feeling that hopes of a final settlement are receding
• Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - American democracy in all its filthy glory
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Where crooks, conmen and blue-sky pseuds are shown no mercy
• Philip Stephens: (The Financial Times) - Brown limps towards an unhappy ending

And from around the world...

• David Brooks: (The New York Times) - The conservative revival
• Charles Krauthammer: (The Washington Post) - A farewell to Hillary
• Michael Gerson: (The Washington Post) - Sticking points for Obama
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - Damsel of distress
• Alex Rondos: (International Herald Tribune) - What side are we on?
• Yossi Sarid: (Haaretz) - Look what they've done to our dream