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Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: The world economy is suffering from two problems. Sadly they need contradictory solutions
• John Major: Blame yourself, Mr.Brown -  Labour squandered the economic legacy it was bequeathed
• Matthew Parris: Why I would rather be a columnist than a cattle-man
• Desmond Tutu: ‘Mama Afrika' not only had a marvellous singing voice: it was used to great political effect
• Ben Macintyre: An account written by the first European to visit Afghanistan still has much to teach us
• Melanie McDonagh: An excess of cookbooks is making me feel rather sick
• Carol Midgley: Sorry gran, but being old is not a licence to be racist
• Leading Article: The unspeakable case of Baby P raises profound questions about the state of Britain today
• Leading Article: The weakness of sterling testifies to distinctively national failures in policy
• Leading Article: Putin's designs on the Kremlin are shameless and bad for Russia

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Tories face tough choices
• Bryony Gordon: (The Telegraph) - Bring teens back into the real world
• Gerald Warner: (The Telegraph) - PC language hinders terror fight
• Dominic Cavendish: (The Telegraph) -  Political theatre has lost the plot
  
• Glenda Cooper: (The Telegraph) - The brutality of teenage girls is unrivalled
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Obama must show the way to a goal set by Einstein, Russell..and Reagan
• Harry Ferguson: (The Guardian) - To protect children we must first protect social workers
• Graham Smith:(The Guardian) - As Prince Charles turns 60 it's time to end the British monarchy
• Robert Fisk: (The Independent) - Double agents, car bombs and antics worthy of James Bond
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Obama's chance to end the fantasy that is Star Wars
• Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - In praise of a Renaissance Prince

And from around the world...

• Jonathan Freedland: (The New York Times) - What might panicked Republicans learn from the Tory experience?
• Nicholas D Kristof: (The New York Times) - President-elect Barack Obama ranked education fifth among his priorities, and if it is being downplayed, that’s a mistake.
• Sebastian Mallaby: (The Washington Post) - Try thinking about global finance as you might think about your car insurance
• Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - History favours the Republicans in 2010
• John Lee: (International Herald Tribune) - The Asian space race ties in with China's vision of its past, its present and its future
• Qi Jingmei: (China Daily) - China's economic growth is on a downward path, with the confidence of its enterprises and consumers hitting a new low.

Comments

[Candadai Tirumalai]

Gordon Smith tells me of aspects of Prince Charles's life I had not known before.
As for the monarchy I remember my grandfather quoting from a history text to the effect that in the 17th century they killed a king but could not kill the monarchy. King Faroukh of Egypt, who was deposed in the 1950s by Nasser, once observed that at the end of the 20th century there would be only five royal houses left: Clubs, Spades, Hearts, and Diamonds, and the House of Windsor. Well, they did survive the 20th century.