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Today in Times Comment

• Gerard Baker: Sarah Palin: it's go west, towards the future of conservatism
• Alice Thomson: Tragic Georgiana is the wrong role model
• James Bartholomew: Down wiv school: children are best educated at home
• Damien Whitworth: Sarah Palin's wilderness, where the cops don't bother you
• Mark Henderson: The Large Hadron Collider: how the press demeans science
• Hugo Rifkind: The right to bear arms and the right to bearskins
• Valerie Grove: Celebrity culture is killing the serious biography
• Peter Riddell: There are plotters, but there’s no credible plot - yet
• Leading Article: Not for burning
• Leading Article: The future is still orange
• Leading Article: Less jaw-jaw, more awe-awe
• Leading Article: A U-Turn on Devolution

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Labour rebels are trapped by indecision
• John Kampfner: (The Telegraph) - Without ideas, the Tories are doomed
• Charles Clover: (The Telegraph) - Pit-bull Palin, enemy of the greens, could be McCain's Achilles heel
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Labour's civil war is harming Britain
• Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - The great hope of local politics has become Margaret Thatcher in a kilt
• Michael Tomasky: (The Guardian) - Wake me when it's over
• Sunder Katwala: (The Guardian) - A stay of execution for Brown
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Tyranny of the red lines
• Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - How to squeeze the Russians
• Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - The dilemma for those of us who supported Hillary
• David Cameron: (The Independent) - We cannot impose democracy at the barrel of a gun
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - This is not a plot. It is a groundswell of discontent
• Andrew Alexander: (The Daily Mail) - The spectre to give Osborne sleepless nights
• Philip Stephens: (Financial Times) - McCain’s embrace of Palin reignites culture wars

And from around the world...

• David Brooks: (The New York Times) - A glimpse of the new
• Ellen Crosby: (The Washington Post) - The Support the Palins Really Need
• Editorial: (The Washington Post) - A Maverick's Appeal
• Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - 'A servant's heart'
• Andrew Natsios: (International Herald Tribune) - The legacy that will endure
• Akiva Eldar: (Haaretz) - The sin of haughtiness