Friday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Gerard Baker: Barack Obama: the new Great Redeemer
• Ben Macintyre: UFO: an Undeniably Fading Obsession
• Magnus Linklater: The age of personal vitriolic abuse
• Mick Hume: SATs waste far too much time
• Jane Owen: Chelsea Flower Show has lost the plot
• Ann Treneman: It could be all change at Crewe as David Cameron drives agenda
• David Wighton: Ben Verwaayen waves goodbye to BT from his starting point
• Peter Riddell: Billions of pounds are left hanging on what Gordon Brown said

And from the rest of the papers...

• Michael Gove: (The Telegraph) - Opportunity should knock, not be blocked
• John Kampfner: (The Telegraph) - Brown's Labour party needs a new vision
• Con Coughlin: (The Telegraph) - China shows a human face with earthquake rescue mission
• Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - Goodbye, good times. Now Labour has to show just whose side it is on
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - When it comes to kissing and telling, you can't beat this 15th-century gadget
• Mark Lawson: (The Guardian) - Weapons we can't handle
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - He appears to have robotic self-discipline. But inside, Brown is a ferment of emotion
• Joan Bakewell: (The Independent) - No wonder the toffs are back with a vengeance
• Terence Blacker: (The Independent) - Ignore the experts: here's the secret of happiness
• Stephen Glover: (The Daily Mail) - Yes, the headlines are certainly bleak...but we're not all doomed yet
• Philip Stephens: (The Financial Times) - Burma’s victims pay price for foreign policy realism

And from around the world...

• David Brooks: (The New York Times) - Obama admires Bush
• E.J.Dionne Jr: (The Washington Post) - Brand on the run
• Robert S. Strauss: (The Washington Post) - The danger of fighting on
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - Pity party
• Brent Staples: (International Herald Tribune) _ A secret history of race
• Alon Liel: (Haaretz) - Please, Mr. President