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Friday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• David Spiegelhalter: Swine flu is a real danger to children
• Frank Skinner: Kit isn’t our biggest problem in Afghanistan
• Dieter Helm: Don’t blow our £100 billion on wind farms
• Antonia Senior: Leave the bankers alone to their bonuses
• Hugo Rifkind: Help! 38,000ft up and nowhere to go
• Anthony Brown: Writers should not be treated difficulty from other people
• Leading article: Power Without Responsibility
• Leading article: Crime and Punishment
• Leading article: You Did, Oscar, You Did

And from the rest of the papers:

• Jeff Randall (The Telegraph) – We have a moral duty to our troops
• Genevieve Fox (The Telegraph) – IVF orphans who will always ask their mother: how could you?
• David Blair (The Telegraph) – Why the restless Chinese are warming to Russia’s frozen east
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – Banks need remedies, not revenge
• Simon Jenkins (The Guardian) – Ecotowns and turbines are a political slap in the face of the landscape
• Mark Lawson (The Guardian) – This vital medium bestows a curious kind of immortality
• Eric Allison (The Guardian) – The crime of a shared cell
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Russia: Defying the autocrats
• Andreas Whittam Smith (The Independent) - Seven ways we could reform our broken political system
• Steve Richards (The Independent) – A revolution in front of our eyes
• Simon Carr (The Independent) – Abusing leaders is a person’s right
• John Healey (The Independent) – The homes of tomorrow, today
• Leading article (The Independent) – Killing exposes the true face of modern Russia
• Andrew MacKinlay (The Daily Mail) – This feeble wobbling on McKinnon is bad for democracy
• Philip Stephens (The Financial Times) – The Middle East chess game Obama needs to win

And from the rest of the world:

• Phil Holland (The New York Times) – Render Unto Larry’s
• Evgeny Morozov (The New York Times) – The 0s and 1s of Computer Warfare
• Paul Krugman (International Herald Tribune) – The Joy of Sachs
• Ehud Olmert (The Washington Post) – Stop Focusing on the Settlements to Achieve Peace in the Middle East
• Paul Wolfowitz (The Wall Street Journal) – Indonesia is a Model Muslim Democracy
• Isi Leibler (The Jerusalem Post) – The case against Obama

Thursday's comment from the papers in...

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• Joan Bakewell: It’s time the law caught up with the over-65s
• Anatole Kaletsky: Don’t worry about rate rises, fear stagflation
• Matthew Parris: I could be a celebrity – get me out of here!
• Heather McGregor: Expensive private education? Think again
• Peter Riddell: the 'goats' are bolting but there will soon be plenty more like them
• Carl Mortished: The downside of doing business in China
• Alice Thomson: Australia’s not all about surf and sun
• Carol Midgley: Hotels tap into the inner thieves in us all
• Leading article: The Parable of the Talents
• Leading article: In the dock
• Leading article: Dust to dust

And from the rest of the papers:

• Alistair Osborne (The Telegraph) – Just how did Goldman and Sachs manage this?
• Geoffrey Lean (The Telegraph) – Green ‘revolution’ left blowing in the wind
• Stefan Szymanski (The Telegraph) – The sports teams in a league of their own
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – At last, some candour in the spending debate
• Timothy Garton-Ash (The Guardian) – Even here, the war on terror is over. And few feel it has left them safer
• Zoe Williams (The Guardian) – The Criminal Gossip Bureau can ruin your job prospects
• Seumus Milne (The Guardian) – How many more will die in vain before we withdraw?
• Leading article (The Guardian) - Green dreams
• Deborah Orr (The Independent) – Old age is not an illness and its care needs to be paid for
• Matthew Norman (The Independent) – Goat-herder Gordon has lost his tribe
• Adrian Hamilton (The Independent) – If terror is the problem, we won’t solve it in Afghanistan
• Leading article (The Independent) – America’s unaccountable intelligence services
• Bel Mooney (The Daily Mail) – Why I admire the couple who went to Dignitas
• John Gapper (The Financial Times) – Little laptops snap at the oligopoly

And from the rest of the world…

• Michael Singh (The New York Times) – And if Iran Doesn’t Want to Talk?
• Garrison Keiller (The New York Times) – In Praise of Ordinariness
• Roger Cohen (International Herald Tribune) – The Meaning of Life
• Buzz Aldrin (The Washington Post) – 40 Years After Apollo 11 Moon Landing
• L Gordon Crovitz (The Wall Street Journal) – Don’t Shoot the Speculators
• Tim Wilson (The Australian) – Death of an author unlikely

Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Daniel Finkelstein: Even out of office, Palin is her party’s leader
• Ilora Finlay: Don’t fear death. Enjoy the setting sun
• Chris Ayres: America should keep on taking the tablets
• Tom Wright: The Americans know this will end in schism
• Philip Collins: Money won’t buy love. Or good marriages
• Deborah Haynes: Iraqi interpreters have been betrayed
• Richard Morrison: More booze than surf: teenagers and the Newquay experience
• Leading article: Dignity and death
• Leading article: Japan’s choice
• Leading article: Work experience

And from the rest of the papers:

• Simon Heffer (The Telegraph) – There’s a class war to be fought over the future of private schools
• Irwin Seltzer (The Telegraph) – Afghanistan, and a lesson from history that goes unheeded
• Liz Hunt (The Telegraph) – A society of secret lists and snoopers
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – The law on suicide is there for a god reason
• Jenni Russell (The Guardian) – New Labour’s great mistake is to think we are all automatons
• Hugh Pennington (The Guardian) – These swine flu deaths do not mean it’s 1968 all over again
• David Blanchflower (The Guardian) – And next for Britain, the semi-slump
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Pakistan: Disaster averted
• Hamish McRae (The Independent) – The brave new world of deflation need not be all bad
• Mark Steel (The Independent) – People would play golf if the sport wasn’t so snobbish
• Peter Coltman (The Independent) – Asylum-seekers need urgent help to escape destitution to Britain
• Leading article (The Independent) – Social care needs to be fairly and efficiently reformed
• Alex Brummer (The Daily Mail) – We mere mortals are taken for a ride again
• Martin Wolf (The Financial Times) – After the storm comes a hard climb

And from the rest of the world…

• Philip Bowring (The New York Times) – The Echoes of Xinjiang
• Gordon Stewart (The New York Times) – Carter’s Speech Therapy
• Thomas L. Friedman (International Herald Tribune) – Goodbye Iraq, and Good Luck
• Kathleen Parker (The Washington Post) – Sonia Sotomayor and Nancy Drew
• Tim Wilson (The Wall Street Journal) – Fighting Climate Change with Patents

Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Rachel Sylvester: For the Tories it’s the beginning of the affair
• Liam Fox: Afghanistan is still a price worth paying
• Melanie Reid: After the frolics comes the awful truth
• Martin Sixsmith: The information watchdog without any teeth
• Tony Brenton: Join the club. But only if your elections are free
• Robbie Millen: Heroes of the downtrodden
• Sathnam Sanghera: Aston Martin’s commuter car is an abomination
• Leading article: A State of Neglect
• Leading article: Charity Begins at School
• Leading article: Honest to God

And from the rest of the papers:

• Mary Riddell (The Telegraph) – Our troops are giving their lives to safeguard a rigged election
• Charles Moore (The Telegraph) – Secrets are safe with the Garden Room Girls
• Gill Hornby (The Telegraph) – Barack Obama shows how it’s done
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – Gen Sir Richard Dannatt is a fine soldier out for his men
• George Monbiot (The Guardian) – The rich can relax. We just need the poor world to cut emission. By 125%
• Amartya Sen (The Guardian) – Pip was right: nothing is so finely felt as injustice. And there the search begins
• Paul Collier (The Guardian) – Send in the accountants
• Leading article (The Guardian) – UKFI: Glorified caretakers
• Dominic Lawson (The Independent) – The West’s aid to Africa does nothing but ease its conscience
• James Turner (The Independent) – Be radical… parents should start paying a ‘talent levy’
• Simon Carr (The Independent) – Not true – but not quite a lie either
• Leading article (The Independent) – Japan needs a breath of political fresh air
• Quentin Letts (The Daily Mail) It’s madness. Our ruling class is a third the size of the army
• Gideon Rachman (The Financial Times) – China is now an empire in denial

And from the rest of the world…

• Stanley A. Weiss (The New York Times) – Water for Peace
• Chalmers Johnson (The New York Times) – Empire of Bases
• Sarah Palin (The Washington Post) – A ‘Cap and Tax’ Road to Economic Disaster
• Andrew Wilson and Nicu Popescu (The Wall Street Journal) – The Summer of Eastern Europe’s Discontent
• David Brooks (International Herald Tribune) – The Way We Live Now
• Leading article (The Times of India) – Make The World Safe

Monday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Libby Purves: Treat Africans as part of the human jigsaw
• William Rees-Mogg: This bill is a panic measure in a tarnished age
• Michael Gove: Too bitter a pill for me to swallow
• Brian Griffiths: Pope Benedict is the man on the money
• Jasmine Whitbread: Protecting aid is good politics and good for Britain. It is also right
• Roy Hattersley: Assaults by humans are far more common
• Jeremy Clarkson: Just one word and my T-shirt offends the whole of Japan
• Leading article: Tilting at wind farms
• Leading article: Pipeline politics
• Leading article: A Pinch of Salt

And from the rest of the papers:

• Boris Johnson (The Telegraph) - It’s poppycock to grow crops here but destroy them in Afghanistan
• George Pitcher (The Telegraph) - Don’t marry in haste and divorce at leisure
• Philip Johnston (The Telegraph) - Beware Labour’s quest for a database state
• Leading article (The Telegraph) - Afghanistan is a war the world can’t afford to walk away from
• Jon Canter (The Guardian) - The feel bad factor
• Madeleine Bunting (The Guardian) - Can an artist’s wheatfield in Hackney switch the mood on climate change?
• Peter Preston (The Guardian) - Enough. This senseless folly in Afghanistan must stop
• Leading article (The Guardian) - The other half of the black hole
• Bruce Anderson (The Independent) - Gordon Brown bears some responsibility for these deaths
• Steve Richards (The Independent) - Will we really see this project in our lifetime?
• Richard Dowden (The Independent) - Fine words, but will Africa listen?
• Leading article (The Independent) - The public mood is shifting, but the mission must push on
• Peter Hitchens (The Daily Mail) - We do need courage Bob, - The courage to pull out
• Clive Crook (The Financial Times) - Two cheers for US health reform

And from the rest of the world…

• Op-Ed Contributors (The New York Times) - Questions for Judge Sotomayor
• Robert X. Cringely (The New York Times) - Chrome vx. Bing vs. You and Me
• Paul Krugman (International Herald Tribune) - Boiling the Frog
• Robert J. Samuelson (The Washington Post) - The Consequences of Big Government
• Mark Dubowitz (The Wall Street Journal) - Hitting Tehran where it hurts
• Jim Stanford (The Globe and Mail) - The perils of financial memory loss



 

Friday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Camilla Cavendish: In the real world, the public sector must pay
• Matthew Parris: Playing politics in a land of double Dutch
• Richard Dowden: Obama’s direct line to the heart of Africa
• Sean O’Neill: We’ve lost faith in the police. But only they can put it right
• Frank Skinner: Be like the plinth people: not set in stone
• Oliver Kamm: We should praise, not punish, the moneymakers
• Leading article: Doctor’s orders
• Leading article: Hard rock
• Leading article: Looking after Children

And from the rest of the papers:

• Jeff Randall (The Telegraph) - You can bank on the Hand of Gord to create another disaster
• Con Coughlin (The Telegraph) – Who is going to stand up and fight for our short-changed soldiers?
• Cassandra Jardine (The Telegraph) – University is not what it used to be
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – These are the reforms that Westminster needs
• Simon Jenkins (The Guardian) – Ministers who justify state snooping must now learn that biters can be bit
• Jonathan Glancey (The Guardian) – Our lethal estates
• Salim Lone (The Guardian) – What Obama can do for us
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Afghanistan: Led by donkeys
• Steve Richards (The Independent) – There’s trouble when the spin doctor becomes part of the story
• Erick Kabendera (The Independent) – What Africa wants from Obama
• Terence Blacker (The Independent) – True driving force in energy debate is cash
• Leading article (The Independent) – Our troops in Afghanistan need the right tools for the job
• Peter Oborne (The Daily Mail) – The child murder epidemic
• Philip Stevens (The Financial Times) – Western awe and domestic anxiety

And from the rest of the world…

• Nicholas Bequelin (The New York Times) – Behind the Violence in Xinjiang
• Annie Ruderman (The New York Times) – Yes, Like Obama
• Ellen Bork (The Washington Post) – How the U.S Can Help the Uigurs in Western China
• Richard Northedge (The Wall Street Journal) – Regulatory Rumble
• Paul Krugman (International Herald Tribune) – The Stimulus Trap
• Brad Glosserman (The Japan Times) – Wisdom of an Asia rising

Thursday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Anatole Kaletsky: Five golden rules for regulating the banks
• Rubiya Kadeer: The Uigur’s cry has echoed round the world
• Melanie Reid: Kick the children out: it’s their only hope
• Cherie Blair: It is not just democracy that is illegal in Iran
• Tim Smit: Tomorrow, do something unreasonable
• Bill Nighy: The G8 must do more to relieve the suffering of strangers
• Alexandra Blair: Open letter to Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thornloe’s daughters, from the daughter of a murdered officer
• Leading article: A missed opportunity
• Leading article: The Iranian question
• Leading article: The crystal ball

And from the rest of the papers:

• Benedict Brogan (The Telegraph) – MPs expenses: We were promised a new order, but all we’ve had is foot-dragging
• Edmund Conway (The Telegraph) – When recovery comes, it won’t feel like one
• Nick Clegg (The Telegraph) – Afghanistan: We’re asking our troops to do the impossible
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – A missed opportunity for bank reform
• Timothy Garton Ash (The Guardian) – Only a new duet of parliament and people and bring the change we need
• Zoe Williams (The Guardian) – The equality watchdog is a gift for the quangophobes
• Charlotte Higgins (The Guardian) – The birth of Twitter art
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Secret spies
• Matthew Norman (The Independent) – She might be crazy, but could she end up in the White House?
• Adrian Hamilton (The Independent) – Why China’s President left the G8
• Mark Lynas (The Independent) – It’s never very comfortable to be ahead of your time
• Leading article (The Independent) – This was not the historic reform that was needed
• Yasmin Alibhai-Brown (The Daily Mail) – How many teen pregnancies before the Left admits its sex education has been a disaster?
• John Gapper (The Financial Times) – Big banks look to rainmakers again

And from the rest of the world…

• Philip Taubman (The New York Times) – Obama’s Big Missile Test
• Philip Bobbitt (The New York Times) – Calculus and Compassion
• Anne Applebaum (The Washington Post) – Obama Puts Medvedev Ahead of Putin
• Seth Lipsky (The Wall Street Journal) – McNamara in Purgatory
• Roger Cohen (International Herald Tribune) – Roger Federer Unbuttoned
• Greg Sheridan (The Australian) – China’s crackdown has world bluffed

Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

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• Daniel Finkelstein: From the fog of war comes three hard truths
• Rosemary Righter: Bin the soft words. Squeeze Iran sharply
• Leo Lewis: Get a bike, save the planet (in 87 years)
• Vince Cable: We’re the masters of the banking universe
• Libby Purves: Morris dancing at 4am? That’s art alright
• Magnus Linklater: Save the quangos from the bonfire
• Peter Riddell: Indignant peers may put the brakes on Brown's plans to clean up politics
• Richard Morrison: Bring back bands
• Leading article: Talking shop
• Leading article: Defence of the realm
• Leading article: A funny kind of subject

And from the rest of the papers:

• Simon Heffer (The Telegraph) – David Cameron’s first priority must be job cuts in the public sector
• Gill Hornby (The Telegraph) – Decline and fall of the BBC empire
• Liam Fox (The Telegraph) – There’s a war on – someone tell Labour
• Leading article (The Telegraph) –The challenge for the G8 summit is for it to matter
• Jonathan Freedland (The Guardian) – Brown may be flawed and weak. But he’s no Nixon – or even Blair
• Geoffrey Wheatcroft (The Guardian) – The quality of sacrifice
• Carla Bruni-Sarkozy (The Guardian) – My message to the G8 leaders in L’Aquila
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Unfit for summitry
• Hamish McRae (The Independent) – The downturn is challenging America for the better
• Alan Johnson (The Independent) – Labour must embrace voting reform
• Richard Ehrman (The Independent) – Europe needs to start addressing its demographic problems
• Leading article (The Independent) – This must not be another G8 meeting of broken promises
• Michael Hanlon (The Daily Mail) – Are we on the brink of a society without any need for men?
• Martin Wolf (The Financial Times) – What India must do if it is to be an affluent country

And from the rest of the world…

• Jacob Ramsey (The New York Times) – A Proudly Normal Election
• Russell Leigh Moses (The New York Times) – Beijing Always Wins
• Michael Gerson (The Washington Post) – Obama’s Health Reform Ship Flounders
• Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy (The Wall Street Journal) – We Must Address Oil-Market Volatility
• Maureen Dowd (International Herald Tribune) - Sarah’s Secret Diary
• John Bolton (The Globe and Mail) – Is Russia pushing Obama’s buttons?

Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

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• David Aaronovitch: Hiding unrest in the purple haze of conspiracy
• Rachel Sylvester: Nasty cuts or nice cuts, there will be blood
• Richard Holmes: Rupert should not have died for this
• Robert Crampton: All in the garden is rosy, at least for the boys
• Carl Mortished: Can we make China quit the opium of the gases?
• Bernie Ecclestone: I was a fool to talk about admiring Hitler
• Sathnam Sanghera: Writers can ignore an inconvenient truth, as long as they admit it
• Leading article: Another Chinese tremor
• Leading article: Bishop’s wrong move
• Leading article: England’s green and perfect pitches

And from the rest of the papers:

• Jeremy Walker (The Telegraph) – The City doesn’t need any more rules
• Ian McColl (The Telegraph) – Doctors want nothing to do with assisted suicide
• Philip Johnston (The Telegraph) – Laws that slip in the back door
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – Summit cannot mask Russia’s decline
• George Monbiot (The Guardian) – England’s pork barrel is paying for airlines to burn the planet
• Charles Cumming (The Guardian) – Xinjiang: the jewel in China’s crown
• Jonathan Steele (The Guardian) – Russia and the US need more than a deal on a doomed war
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Home truths
• Dominic Lawson (The Independent) – Death, dignity and the darker side of family dynamics
• Kim Sengupta (The Independent) – Dark days when military and militias were at war
• Mary Dejevsky (The Independent) – It worked in Moscow, but the Obama effect can be negative
• Leading article (The Independent) – The repressive reality behind China’s modern mask
• Edward Heathcoat Amory (The Daily Mail) – Let’s wield the axe at the Quangos
• Gideon Rachman (The Financial Times) – Obama must be firm on foreign policy

And from the rest of the world…

• Phelim Kine (The New York Times) – Leaning on the Dragon
• Alexander Motyl (The New York Times) – Back to Latin
• Joseph A. Califano Jr. (The Washington Post) – A Whiz Kid in McNamara’s Pentagon
• Mart Laar (The Wall Street Journal) – Time for a New Energy Policy
• David Brooks (International Herald Tribune) – In Search of Dignity
• Bill Williams (Pravda) – The oxymoron of ‘Russian quality’

Monday's comment from the papers in...

Today in Times comment

• Libby Purves: Preening populism has put us off democracy
• Ken Macdonald: Britain: a refuge for the unspeakably evil
• Michael Gove: Here’s where all the women get off
• William Rees-Mogg: In 2009 as in 1931, debts must be paid
• Andrew Haldenby: Costly, inefficient failures. Who needs them?
• Ross Clark: Sir John Sawers should know better
• Jeremy Clarkson: After three brushes with death in planes I want a parachute
• Leading article: Obama in Russia
• Leading article: Open source
• Leading article: Treasury of words

And from the rest of the papers:

• George Pitcher (The Telegraph) – There’s no pride in bashing gays, Bishop
• Ed West (The Telegraph) – Quangos are worthless and wasteful foes of democracy
• Christopher Booker (The Telegraph) – Lieutenant-Colonel Rupert Thorneloe and Trooper Joshua Hammond not have died
• Leading article (The Telegraph) – The families that suffer for secrecy
• Jon Blyth (The Guardian) – Shyness is golden
• Julian Glover (The Guardian) – How Mandelson shrugged off his ermine control of the country
• Peter Preston (The Guardian) – Defensive errors
• Leading article (The Guardian) – Pressing the wrong buttons
• Rupert Cornwell (The Independent) – Little hope of a new start with Russia
• Vince Cable (The Independent) – Government cannot wash its hands of tax
• Michael Axeworthy (The Independent) – The clerics are angry at the unifying time
• Leading article (The Independent) – Obama must take this chance to reset relations with Russia
• Lord Carlile (The Daily Mail) – Why it would be cruel not to put Cary McKinnon on trial in Britain
• Clive Crook (The Financial Times) – Obama reaches the limit of a friendly tone

And from the rest of the world...

• Nikolas K. Gvosdev (The New York Times) – What the Russians Want
• Viktor Erofeyev (The New York Times) – Russia (still) Can Only Be Believed In
• Anna Applebaum (The Washington Post) – Palin’s Complaints Carry Taint of Hypocrisy
• Pascal Lamy (The Wall Street Journal) – Developing Countries Need Trade
• Roger Cohen (International Herald Tribune) – A Journalist’s ‘Actual Responsibility’
• Leading article (The Times of India) – Grow It Back