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Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: The world must kick its addiction to oil
• George Walden: Time to come out of the liberal closet on gay clergy, Archbishop
• David Cameron: The Conservatives have a plan and we can make it work
• Melanie Reid: A political timebomb in Glasgow's Guantanamo
• Matthew Parris: The trick: forecast what happened yesterday
• Ross Clark: Police advert row: It's the apology that's offensive, not the dog
• Carol Midgley: Nightmare on easyJet: what happens when your no-frills flight becomes a no-flight farce
• Ann Treneman: David Cameron serves up a vote-deal ambush
• Peter Riddell: Crunch time for Gordon Brown as voters’ fears are realised
• Leading Article: From Russia with contempt
• Leading Article: Crossroads for Anglicans
• Leading Article: Not a dog's life

And from the rest of the papers...

• Edmund Conway: (The Telegraph) - We're in for a bleak winter as the economy slumps into deep freeze
• Tim Collins: (The Telegraph) - Repressive law turns terrorists into martyrs
• Alan Cochrane: (The Telegraph) - If poisoning of eagles is on an industrial scale, where are the carcases?
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Crusading is not the answer, but nor is pulling up the drawbridge
• Mark Lynas: (The Guardian) - Climate change is no longer just a middle-class issue
• Zoe Williams: (The Guardian) - Lessons for the godless
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In priase of...Dolly Parton
• Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - So we can't afford to drive. But here's the upside
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Science is thrilling – except in our schools
• Janet Street-Porter: (The Independent) - Knife crime's real perpetrators: parents
• Leading article: (The Independent) - There are ways we can tackle knife crime
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Lord Biro, David Icke and Miss GB - what has David Davis done to deserve this lot?
• Robert Shrimsley: (The Financial Times) - When green is the colour of gullibility

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - What we learned in the war
• George F. Will: (The Washington Post) - Independence days
• Ban Ki-moon: (The Washington Post) - Global action to save global growth
• Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - Can Barack buy the Presidency?
• H.D.S. Greenway: (International Herald Tribune) - Hopes for Bhutan
• Anna Husarska: (The Daily Star) - Afghanistan's Big Return is becoming a big headache

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

George Will on the regressive nature of historical dating. The July Fourth mystique is still very potent. This morning, at about 8, I saw several families from different parts of the country making their way to the Capitol. They are here in part to see the national fireworks tomorrow, but more to celebrate America at a deep, instinctive level: an annual act of renewal.
John Adams, the New Englander, and Thomas Jefferson , the Virginian, had a complex relationship, and unknown to the other, died on the same day, July 4, 1826, exactly fifty years after the conventional date of the Declaration.
Visitors to Washington will undoubtedly be thrilled to see the original draft of it in the National Archives, but only a few are likely to seek out a scholarly book on the subject.