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Today in Times Comment

• Daniel Finkelstein: Toff stunt is the end for New Labour
• Magnus Linklater: Why Captain Nairac beats Big Brother
• Hilary Rose: Road census: a waste of police time
• Jamie Whyte: Why taxes should be slashed by half
• Tony Halpin: The superior kind of hooligan
• Bronwen Maddox: European Union misses rare opportunity to change farming rules
• Peter Riddell: Yes, Tories are ahead, but by just how much?
• Ann Treneman: Nadine is Queen for the Day as her marem looks adoringly on
• Gerard Baker: Missing: one concession speech

And from the rest of the papers...

• Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - Tories need an education policy. Here's one
• Irwin Stelzer: (The Telegraph) - Lower, simpler, fairer: a plan to reform tax
• George Pitcher: (The Telegraph) - What will we tell these production-line children?
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - The world and its media are playing the dictators' game
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - Attacks on toffs will ring hollow until Labour proves its meritocratic mettle
• Michael White: (The Guardian) - A matter of conscience and calculation
• William Gumede: (The Independent) - Mbeki must face up to South Africa's xenophobia
• Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - Don't believe everything George Soros says
• Deborah Orr: (The Independent) - A simple equation: the tougher we are on youth crime, the worse the problem is
• Max Hastings: (The Daily Mail) - Why this horror makes me fear for the future of South Africa
• Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - Preserving the open economy at times of stress

And from around the world...

• Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - The last debate
• James Andrew Miller: (The Washington Post) - Clinton's next stop, the Supreme Court?
• David S. Broder: (The Washington Post) - No other like him
• Joseph Lieberman: (The Wall Street Journal) - Democrats and our enemies
• Abigail Jones: (International Herald Tribune) - The mother of perfection
• Michael Broning: (The Daily Star) - The myth of a 'Shiite Crescent' in the Middle East