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Today in Times Comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: Punish savers and make them spend money
• John Woodcock: A loose cannon all too likely to be fired
• Matthew Parris: We need a truce in Gaza’s war of words
• Ben Macintyre: Like tulips, wealth can wither and bloom again
• Correlli Barnett: Victory through air attack? It's pie in the sky
• Melanie Reid: Rugby players: vulnerable out on their own
• Carol Midgley: Ban Spanker Lane? These daft councils need a Nether Wallop
• Leading Article: Forecasting Errors
• Leading Article: The Excellence of Excellencies
• Leading Article: All Out

And from the rest of the papers...

• Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - Our humanity has failed us in Gaza
• Irwin Stelzer: (The Telegraph) - Green taxes would be good for British jobs
• Cormac Murphy O'Connor: (The Telegraph) - The recession is our chance to make a better world
• Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Alistair Darling is a man in desperate need of ideas
• Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Europe is failing two life and death tests. We must act together, now
• Seumas Milne: (The Guardian) - Israel and the west will pay a price for Gaza's bloodbath
• Greg Clark and Jeremy Hunt: (The Guardian) - A year of reckoning
• Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Beyond retail therapy
• Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - We're world-beaters when it comes to sporting incompetence
• Vincent Cable: (The Independent) - Confiscating savings from the poor is both stupid and cruel
• Brian Viner: (The Independent) - What has befallen our market towns?
• Leading Article: (The Independent) - A ceasefire that promises hope, but must deliver
• Comment: (The Daily Mail) - £12.5bn VAT gamble that failed to pay off
• John Gapper: (Financial Times) - Funds of funds have to work harder

And from around the world...

• Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - The Illinois Senator checklist
• Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - The dominion of the dead
• Jimmy Carter: (The Washington Post) - An unnecessary war
• Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - President Bush Tried to Rein In Fan and Fred
• Ellen Goodman: (International Herald Tribune) - American teens and sex
• Israel Harel: (Ha'aretz) - We must let ourselves win