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Today in Times Comment

• Libby Purves: It's time to take on the gangsters of the sea
• John Sutherland: Biographies that cast long shadows
• Carl Emmerson: Costly dangers of the unclenched fiscal fist
• William Rees-Mogg: Déjà vu: six steps that make up a great panic
• Tim Worstall: Do you need a mortgage? Just join a party
• Michael Gove: That's me staring stupidly. I've been exposed
• Caitlin Moran: The diary of Caitlin Moran, aged 13 3/4
• Leading Article: Thankyou, and Goodbye
• Leading Article: The Climate Has Changed
• Leading Article: Never a cross word

And from the rest of the papers...

• Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - If the Left has its way the bad times will be even worse
• Philip Johnston: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown has lost the argument over detention
• Jim White: (The Telegraph) - The lights are going out all over Britain
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - The public sector needs to share people's pain
• Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - Serious politics is back, and Brown can stand tall again
• Max Hastings: (The Guardian) - Afghanistan's best hope is for controlled warlordism
• Gary Younge: (The Guardian) - The politics of smear won't work in the middle of a stockmarket crash
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Fingers crossed for Obama
• Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Yes, the Tories should blame Brown
• Andreas Whittam Smith: (The Independent) - We could be on the brink of a Great Depression
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - People are dying because gay men can't give blood
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - A bounce that won't deliver Mr Brown an election
• Alex Brummer: (The Daily Mail) - Brown and Darling might just pull it off
• Clive Crook: (Financial Times) - A system overwhelmed by innovation

And from around the world...

• Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - Gordon does good
• William Kristol: (The New York Times) - Fire the campaign
• Fred Hiatt: (The Washington Post) - What McCain hasn't tried
• John R. Bolton: (The Wall Street Journal) - Bush's North Korea Surrender Will Have Lasting Consequences
• Galima Bukharbaeva: (International Herald Tribune) - The EU ticks a box
• Waleed Aly: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Beneath the financial crisis waits a nastier beast