Thursday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times Comment

• David Aaronovitch: The BNP can never make itself respectable
• Anatole Kaletsky: Cameron may drown in his clear blue water
• Matthew Parris: The blind leading the blind fools
• Ben Macintyre: Don't panic, it's just Mariah Careyensis
• Matthew Syed: Why stop here on our evolution from the ape?
• Melanie Reid: Nicole Kidman drifts about like a lost porcelain doll
• Carol Midgley: John Sergeant the dancing pig saved the BBC's bacon
• Ann Treneman: Bjorn-again Brown's Seventies revival
• Leading Article: Liberty and the BNP
• Leading Article: Damascene Conversion
• Leading Article: The big issue

And from the rest of the papers...

• Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - David Cameron's U-turn on spending pledge shows there is an alternative to Labour
• Melanie McDonagh: (The Telegraph) - Jacqui Smith's prostitution laws could help free women from sexual slavery
• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - UK must choose economy of David Cameron or Gordon Brown. But will it help Arron?
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Ofsted schools report: Remove ideology and education will recover
• Joan Bakewell: (The Guardian) - Enough excuses. The BBC must confront its moral crisis
• Lola Adesioye: (The Guardian) - Let's hear more from these BNP members
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Here, you can feel the power shift. But we all wrestle with the same problems
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Perils on the seas
• Robert Fisk: (The Independent) - Once more fear stalks the streets of Kandahar
• Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Charles as President? Not in my name
• Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - Cameron can't afford mistakes. But nor can he play it safe
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - There are better ways to protect trafficked women
• Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - He retained the poise of a cheetah in the long grass
• Robert Shrimsley: (The Financial Times) - A depressed pound on the couch

And from around the world...

• Nicholas D. Kristof: (The New York Times) - Obama, Misha and the Bear
• James Oakes: (The New York Times) - What’s so special about a Team of Rivals?
• Michael Kinsley: (The Washington Post) - Let the guy smoke
• Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - Now Obama has to govern
• Olivia Judson: (International Herald Tribune) - All hail the apple maggot!
• Joseph Stiglitz: (Der Spiegel) - Global crisis - made in America