Thursday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: It all looks like Enron government
• Camilla Cavendish: Churchgoing isn't always religious
• Matthew Parris: Enough. Get me a squirrel recipe
• Carol Midgley: Coming soon: the old geezer show
• Eamonn Butler: Watch out, the Gestapo are about
• Ann Treneman: Turgid Gordon Brown is no bonus for Bruce Forsyth
• Dan Sabbagh: Why is there no investigation into dodgy phone-ins?
• Peter Riddell: Economy is key to revival of Gordon Brown's fortunes

And from the rest of the papers...

• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - Cherie Blair's memoirs set a bad example
• Edmund Conway: (The Telegraph) - Financial crisis: Labour's history is repeating
• Alan Cochrane: (The Telegraph) - Scottish National Party-watch, aka the day job
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Poland is overtaking Britain on the road to Europe - and to the euro
• Libby Brooks: (The Guardian) - Spirit of the Wombles
• John Harris: (The Guardian) - The tactics of Crewe expose a truly nasty party: Labour
• John Rentoul: (The Independent) - Cameron is leaving Brown to hang himself – but he must still show what he'd do instead
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Are there just too many people in the world?
• Janet Street-Porter: (The Independent) - We're ready to rise up against eco-towns
• Stephen Glover: (The Daily Mail) - Yes, the headlines are certainly bleak...but we're not all doomed yet
• John Gapper: (The Financial Times) - A Sex and the City guide to the entertainment industry

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - A victory plan for Hillary
• Marie Cocco: (The Washington Post) - Misogyny I won't miss
• Robert Novak: (The Washington Post) - A column's 45 years
• Daniel Henninger: (The Wall Street Journal) - Democracies don't let people die
• Robert D. Kaplan: (International Herald Tribune) - Aid at the point of a gun
• Wieland Wagner: (De Spiegel) - China's 'Grandpa Wen' Spins a Disaster into a PR Coup