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Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: Americans must give the Republicans a good kicking on November 4
• Camilla Cavendish: Children: those things other people look after
• Matthew Parris: I now realise that life begins at 59
• Magnus Linklater: Sean Connery, George Steiner, Alfred Brendel: what's the link?
• Robert Skidelsky: David Miliband must stop playing with fire
• Andrew Tyrie: The Conservatives must put the economy straight
• Alice Thomson: Let's give today's Lord of the Flies generation a break
• Leading Article: Reckless Russia
• Leading Article: Picture Window
• Leading Article: Australia: dingoland

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Britain is adrift in a 'scary' world without a proper foreign policy
• Anne Applebaum: (The Telegraph) - Did Hillary Clinton really help the Barack Obama cause?
• Robert Whelan: (The Telegraph) - A state struggling to cope with 77 million people
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Standing up to the Russian bully
• Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - The Big Dog can still hunt
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - The story's great, the rhetoric soars, but soon Obama must heed Canute
• Seumas Milne: (The Guardian) - Georgia is the graveyard of America's unipolar world
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Justice under pressure
• John Rentoul: (The Independent) - Brown will be ditched. But when?
• Rupert Cornwell: (The Independent) - So is Obama the saviour of his party?
• Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - We need an old approach for the new global politics
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - Both sides should cool the Cold War rhetoric
• Edward Lucas: (The Daily Mail) - Like any bully, Russia can be faced down. Let's do it sooner rather than later
• Mikheil Saakashvili: (Financial Times) - Moscow’s plan is to redraw the map of Europe

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - The torch passes. Really.
• Nicholas D. Kristof: (The New York TImes) - Media’s Balancing Act
• David S.Broder: (Washington Post) - Women at Center Stage
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - The master has arrived
• Pankaj Mishra: (International Herald Tribune) - A jihad grows in Kashmir
• I.A. Rehman: (Dawn - Pakistan) - Revive political parties