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July 07, 2008

Monday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Sarah Brown: No child should ever be orphaned at birth
  • Rosemary Righter: Unbelievable! A summit that actually matters
  • William Rees-Mogg: I admire McCain, but I bet on Obama to win
  • Rob Fahey: It's inevitable: soon we will all be gamers
  • Michael Gove: These are a few of my saddest things
  • Stephen Pollard: Bloody-minded unions? Yes, the BMA is deadly
  • Leading Article: A Conspiracy of Silence
  • Leading Article: Back to basics
  • Leading Article: Waters of life

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - A new Labour party may be bad for the Tories' health
  • Jonathan Wynne-Jones: (The Telegraph) - Dr Rowan Williams stands tall in the Church
  • Philip Johnston: (The Telegraph) - Fair trials impossible if fear rules the streets
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - The world needs leaders at the G8 summit
  • Hugh Muir: (The Guardian) - The tragedy of Ray Lewis
  • Gary Younge: (The Guardian) - It's no surprise that the BNP's rise and New Labour's demise are linked
  • Max Hastings: (The Guardian) - It may seem ineffective, but we need G8 in order to face the daunting future
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - The F-words
  • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - In a sea of corruption we only catch the small fry
  • Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Ray Lewis and Lord Phillips are both grappling with society's alienated groups
  • Lucy Winkett: (The Independent) - We must address poverty, wars – and female bishops
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - Brown's opportunity to help Africa
  • Melanie Phillips: (The Daily Mail) - We MUST continue his crusade against gangs
  • Clive Crook: (The Financial Times) - America’s human capital is tested

And from around the world...

  • Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - Obama's message to Europe
  • Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - Behind the Bush bust
  • Michael Kinsley: (The Washington Post) - The real joke in Minnesota
  • Dorothy Rabinowitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - American politics aren't 'Post-Racial'
  • Lobsang Sangay: (International Herald Tribune) - Feeling their homeland's pain
  • Michael Richardson: (The Japan Times) - Tensions strain 'strategic' Russia-China ties

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July 04, 2008

Friday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Gerard Baker: Barack Obama's policy switches are giving the Left whiplash
  • Ben Macintyre: Mamma Mia, how can we resist the words of Abba?
  • Robin Harris: The disaster for Christians in Iraq
  • Melanie McDonagh: The Anglican wars are bad for all of us
  • Alan Mallinson: Richard Dannatt: a loyal soldier who deserves to be promoted
  • Hugo Rifkind: Andy Murray and Anglo-Scottish dislike
  • Jane Shilling: So, Andy Murray isn't a charmer. Well, why is the mob so obsessed with this dubious quality anyway?
  • Peter Riddell: Gordon Brown’s chickens are coming home to roost
  • Ann Treneman: They are John Lewis MPs: never knowingly overpaid
  • Leading Article: Who dares wins: Colombia and the hostage rescue
  • Leading Article: Aircraft carriers: plane sailing
  • Leading Article: Ancient theatres: not fit for Rolling St

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Jeff Randall: (The Telegraph) - How to save the BBC from itself (and get its hand out of our pockets)
  • Siân Berry: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown's eco-towns are not green
  • Frank Field: (The Telegraph) - Government must be cut down to size
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Iran remains a threat to Israel's very existence
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Let a church so fond of division test its worth in the marketplace of belief
  • Jenni Russell: (The Guardian) - Adults must help make the streets safe
  • Benjamin Senauer: (The Guardian) - The appetite for biofuel starves the poor
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Secrets and laws
  • Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Tories used to condemn the politics of envy. Now they're seeing it from the other side
  • Simon Birkett: (The Independent) - We're choking to death while the Government dithers
  • Katy Guest: (The Independent) - In London we already walk by on the other side
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - The issue of bankers' pay cannot be ignored
  • Andrew Alexander: (The Daily Mail) - It's always the poor who suffer from sanctions
  • Philip Stephens: (The Financial Times) - Japan goes missing: invisible host at the summit

And from around the world...

  • Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - Rove's third term
  • Eugene Robinson: (The Washington Post) - A special brand of patriotism
  • E.J. Dionne Jr: (The Washington Post) - We gotta have faith
  • Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - A day at the beach
  • Paul H. Robinson: (International Herald Tribune) - Shoot to stun
  • Andrei Piontkovsky:(The Moscow Times) - Why the Kremlin is so scared of Ukraine

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July 03, 2008

Thursday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Anatole Kaletsky: The world must kick its addiction to oil
  • George Walden: Time to come out of the liberal closet on gay clergy, Archbishop
  • David Cameron: The Conservatives have a plan and we can make it work
  • Melanie Reid: A political timebomb in Glasgow's Guantanamo
  • Matthew Parris: The trick: forecast what happened yesterday
  • Ross Clark: Police advert row: It's the apology that's offensive, not the dog
  • Carol Midgley: Nightmare on easyJet: what happens when your no-frills flight becomes a no-flight farce
  • Ann Treneman: David Cameron serves up a vote-deal ambush
  • Peter Riddell: Crunch time for Gordon Brown as voters’ fears are realised
  • Leading Article: From Russia with contempt
  • Leading Article: Crossroads for Anglicans
  • Leading Article: Not a dog's life

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Edmund Conway: (The Telegraph) - We're in for a bleak winter as the economy slumps into deep freeze
  • Tim Collins: (The Telegraph) - Repressive law turns terrorists into martyrs
  • Alan Cochrane: (The Telegraph) - If poisoning of eagles is on an industrial scale, where are the carcases?
  • Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Crusading is not the answer, but nor is pulling up the drawbridge
  • Mark Lynas: (The Guardian) - Climate change is no longer just a middle-class issue
  • Zoe Williams: (The Guardian) - Lessons for the godless
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In priase of...Dolly Parton
  • Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - So we can't afford to drive. But here's the upside
  • Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Science is thrilling – except in our schools
  • Janet Street-Porter: (The Independent) - Knife crime's real perpetrators: parents
  • Leading article: (The Independent) - There are ways we can tackle knife crime
  • Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Lord Biro, David Icke and Miss GB - what has David Davis done to deserve this lot?
  • Robert Shrimsley: (The Financial Times) - When green is the colour of gullibility

And from around the world...

  • Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - What we learned in the war
  • George F. Will: (The Washington Post) - Independence days
  • Ban Ki-moon: (The Washington Post) - Global action to save global growth
  • Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - Can Barack buy the Presidency?
  • H.D.S. Greenway: (International Herald Tribune) - Hopes for Bhutan
  • Anna Husarska: (The Daily Star) - Afghanistan's Big Return is becoming a big headache

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July 02, 2008

Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Alice Miles: Knife crime: get youths in court before they stab someone
  • Daniel Finkelstein: The NHS constitution: an irresponsible document
  • Robert Crampton: Teenage piercing and climbing the social ladder
  • Michael Holman: Never forget how we created Robert Mugabe
  • Tam Dalyell: All the UK must vote on Scots independence
  • Kenan Malik: The race debate: nothing to do with race
  • Bronwen Maddox: Turkey's past is ruining hopes of a liberal future
  • Peter Riddell: The Tories attempt to get to grips with a thorny West Lothian question
  • Ann Treneman: Cherie Blair, the C-word and knife crime
  • Leading Article: The Conservatives: vision needed
  • Leading Article: The Lisbon treaty: Sarkozy's next move
  • Leading Article: Andy Murray: a nation wonders

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - Civilised societies need subsidised arts - but the state shouldn't do it 
  • Irwin Stelzer: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown would achieve more by doing less
  • Bernice McCabe: (The Telegraph) - Without passion, teaching misses the point
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Tories have a solution to our democratic deficit
  • Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - Obama's shuffle to the right suggests this man is ruthless enough to win
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Sanctions are a coward's war. They only boost brutal rulers
  • Yvonne Roberts: (The Guardian) - Mum is the missing word
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - When bubbles go pop
  • Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - As the value of our houses plummets, let's embark on some damage limitation
  • Deborah Orr: (The Independent) - A man of God we should all be supporting
  • Mark Steel: (The Independent) - If only Andy Murray came from the Home Counties
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - A promise to bank on?
  • Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - Cherie Blair shone two staring spooked eyes at MPs
  • Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - Lessons to be learnt from the financial crisis

And from around the world...

  • Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - The wrong stuff
  • Michael Gerson: (The Washington Post) - The audacity of cynicism
  • Jeffrey Gedmin: (The Washington Post) - Reporting among gangsters
  • Numan Al Faddagh: (The Wall Street Journal) - What Iraqi expats are saying now
  • Philip Bowring: (International Herald Tribune) - Mud in Malaysia
  • Chris Bowen: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - we must become a money magnet

Posted by Alice Fishburn on July 02, 2008 at 07:42 AM in The Daily Fix | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

July 01, 2008

Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Rachel Sylvester: Gordon Brown, the snail finds it hard to be a whale
  • David Aaronovitch: I'll eat my hat if Dr Crippen was innocent - OK?
  • Joan Bakewell: Prison - a cruel and unusual punishment for a woman
  • Mick Hume: Can't pay for your palace? Then get out
  • Chris Ayres: Will Smith's school deserves to avoid cult status
  • Matthew Syed: John Motson bought into his own cult of celebrity
  • Bronwen Maddox: An extra trophy – but supporters are in disarray
  • Ann Treneman: NHS: the real world punctures Westminster bubble
  • Gerard Baker: Equity investors get gloomy message at last
  • Leading Article: The NHS: World Class Care Costs
  • Leading Article: Oiling Iraq's Revival
  • Leading Article: SOS, RIP

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Boris Johnson: (The Telegraph) - If sitting on our backsides were a sport, we'd be world champions
  • John Bolton: (The Telegraph) - North Korea nuclear deal with US 'like police truce with Mafia'
  • Gill Hornby: (The Telegraph) - £40m really isn't enough to make a palace fit for a queen
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - 'Eco-towns' will fall victim to economics
  • Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - For all the hyperbole, Bevan would have approved of this
  • Nick Clegg: (The Guardian) - A home for progressives
  • Simon Tisdall: (The Guardian) - Mugabe is weakened, but he still won't back down
  • Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - Meet the new Obama, master of the U-turn
  • Juan Cruz: (The Independent) - Olé, España! (But we're still a divided country ...)
  • Steve Richards: (The Independent) - The abiding lesson of the NHS is that people still look to the state in their hour of need
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - Diminished and discredited
  • Max Hastings: (The Daily Mail) - Please don't take after your father, William
  • Gideon Rachman: (The Financial Times) - How Obama can avoid the Carter trap

And from around the world...

  • Thomas F. Schaller: (The New York Times) - The South will fall again
  • David Brooks: (The New York Times) - Obama's money class
  • Anne Applebaum: (The Washington Post) - Nationalism gets its kicks
  • Bret Stephens: (The Wall Street Journal) - Global warming as mass neurosis
  • Jonathan David Farley: (International Herald Tribune) - The lost colonies
  • Fatih Cekirge: (Hurriyet) - The most critical sentence of Turkish army's statement

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June 30, 2008

Monday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Cristina Odone: A bridge over trouble waters
  • Richard Branson: Don't run Heathrow into the ground
  • Douglas Hurd, Malcolm Rifkind, David Owen and George Robertson: Start worrying and learn to ditch the bomb
  • Libby Purves: The Borisophobes are on the march (or not)
  • Michael Gove: No dumb Cowboy Colonels in these memoirs
  • Ross Clark: Why doesn't Obama take on Wal-Mart?
  • Jeremy Clarkson: Dante’s new hell: my work canteen
  • Leading Article: Turks Court Disaster
  • Leading Article: Disarming Ideas
  • Leading Article: Signing Off

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - 'Top-ups' are the way to get better treatment
  • George Pitcher: (The Telegraph) - Charles Darwin was not the father of atheism
  • Tim Stevens: (The Telegraph) - Society must welcome children back into our communities
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Politicians must heed the voters over NHS reform
  • Michael Tomasky: (The Guardian) - McCain talks the party line
  • Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - Labour must decide. Sack or back him, deadline autumn
  • Madeleine Bunting: (The Guardian) - Pregnancy should be a cause for cheer, not a reason to fear for your life
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Alexander the not so great
  • Bruce Anderson: (The Independent) - Gordon Brown thought he could rely on the Scottish vote – now it could bring him down
  • Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: (The Independent) - Religions should not be allowed to make ghettos
  • Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Harman could yet give Labour its legacy
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - The birthday of the ban
  • Melanie Phillips: (The Daily Mail) - This epidemic of sleaze is a sign our democracy itself is decaying
  • Clive Crook: (The Financial Times) - The highest political bearpit in the land

And from around the world...

  • William Kristol: (The New York Times) - The choice they made
  • Paul Krugman: (The New York Times) - The Obama agenda
  • Jackson Diehl: (The Washington Post) - The rival Chávez won't permit
  • John R. Bolton: (The Wall Street Journal) - The tragic end of Bush's North Korea policy
  • Nicholas D. Kristof: (International Herald Tribune) - If only Mugabe were white
  • Hugh Pope: (The Daily Star) - The year for a settlement in Cyprus?

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June 27, 2008

Friday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Gerard Baker: Cheer up. We're winning this War on Terror
  • David Pannick: Judges won't be cowed into denying a fair trial
  • Ben Macintyre: A Zimbabwe joke is no laughing matter
  • Melanie Reid: School inspections: the malevolent web that traps our teachers
  • Hugo Rifkind: Gordon Brown's trouble? The wrong sort of rage
  • Melanie McDonagh: Want equal pay? Give up men and children
  • Jane Shilling: International diplomacy, rule one: don't shrink from squeezes, smooches, hugs and air-kisses
  • Peter Riddell: Gordon Brown trumpets reform on anniversary but no one's listening
  • Ann Treneman: Harriet Harman unruffled as her Equality Bill is met with pride . . . and prejudice
  • Leading Article: Road safety: driving down deaths
  • Leading Article: North Korea: Nuclear Bombshell
  • Leading Article: The internet: www.checkthisout.ch

And from the rest of the papers...

  • David Blair: (The Telegraph) - Will Thabo Mbeki ever find the courage to tell Robert Mugabe where to get off?
  • John Kampfner: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown can lay the ground for Labour's next generation
  • Jeff Randall: (The Telegraph) - Where did it all go wrong? When Labour started telling lies
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - More to Labour's slide than Gordon Brown
  • Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - A year on, Brown is yet to run out of steam, but his ship is plainly sinking
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Blears' vision may appease builders, but it won't do much for the rest of us
  • Yvonne Roberts: (The Guardian) - What kind of euqality?
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In praise of ... the Everglades
  • Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - This child protection hysteria deflects attention from a real, and growing, danger
  • Michael Brown: (The Independent) - The PM's problem is that he lacks any legitimacy
  • Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - An act of dispossession that shames Britain
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - Uncivilised behaviour
  • Andrew Alexander: (The Daily Mail) - Democracy or freedom? That is the choice
  • Philip Stephens: (The Financial Times) - Bush’s China policy likely outlive presidency

And from around the world...

  • David Brooks: (The New York Times) - The Sam's club agenda
  • Sam Wang and Sandra Aamodt: (The New York Times) - Your brain lies to you
  • Michael Gerson: (The Washington Post) - Faith, hope and votes
  • Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - Let McCain be McCain
  • Tony Blair: (International Herald Tribune) - Break the dreadlock
  • Gabor Steingart: (De Spiegel) - The shrinking influence of the US Federal Reserve

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June 26, 2008

Thursday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Anatole Kaletsky: The Ireland “no” vote: a big earthquake
  • Camilla Cavendish: The Planning Bill: a bulldozer through democracy
  • Ross Clark: We can feed the world: look at all the space
  • Matthew Parris: Why can't we have high-speed trains?
  • Mary Ann Sieghart: What if Gordon Brown had taken over only now?
  • Heather Brooke: Crime mapping: we can't afford to ignore it
  • Bronwen Maddox: ‘Houdini’ relies on fragile peace for unlikely escape
  • Peter Riddell: Poynter review: the challenge is to share information but also protect it
  • Ann Treneman: A year in office, and Gordon must learn to grin and bear it
  • Leading Article: Sovereign funds: the wealth of nations
  • Leading Article: Pakistan: the Khyber impasse
  • Leading Article: Sperm donors: the father figures

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown may be saved by eco-revolution
  • Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Without change, Britain will never get ahead
  • Con Coughlin: (The Telegraph) - Armed Forces: Why the top brass broke ranks
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Time for sanity in the vetting of volunteers
  • Matthew Yglesias: (The Guardian) - Lies, damned lies and John McCain
  • Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - We don't need guns to help the people pitch Mugabe from his perch
  • Semuas Milne: (The Guardian) - Bush is trying to impose a classic colonial status on Iraq
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Unhappy birthday
  • Johann Hari: (The Independent) - Our infantile search for heroic leaders
  • John Rentoul: (The Independent) - Cameron's stand on Heathrow proves that his green agenda is not just a gimmick
  • Joan Smith: (The Independent) - There's nothing poetic about Amy's self-destruction
  • Leading article: (The Independent) - A cosy club that continues to set itsown rules

And from around the world...

  • Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - Why Obama should visit a mosque
  • Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - United we campaign
  • Robert D. Novak: (The Washington Post) - The Obamacons Who Worry McCain
  • Karl Rove: (The Wall Street Journal) - It's all about Obama
  • William J. Amelio: (International Herald Tribune) - Interconnected we prosper
  • Chidanand Rajghatta: (The Times of India) - Keeping up with the Patels

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June 25, 2008

Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Alice Miles: Spy cameras: We are paranoid, but they're still out to get us
  • Daniel Finkelstein: Social mobility: peers not parents make us what we are
  • Robert Crampton: Why stolen lifebelts give me a sinking feeling
  • Magnus Linklater: The SNP wants to have its Dundee cake and eat it
  • Damien Whitworth: Wimbledon: Ooh, shorts. Cue another tedious debate
  • Bronwen Maddox: Oil-price promises are only good at face value
  • Ann Treneman: Boris Johnson heads to Henley to boost heir apparent
  • Peter Riddell: Gordon Brown's tragedy: being right may not win him general election votes
  • Leading Article: Witness anonymity: the price of justice
  • Leading Article: Public sector pay load
  • Leading Article: Japan and China's gunboat diplomacy

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Simon Heffer: (The Telegraph) - Pay rises don't cause inflation - an inconvenient truth for Alistair Darling
  • Gill Hornby: (The Telegraph) - How sad Old Etonian Simon Mann is a twit
  • Terence Kealey: (The Telegraph) - Of course undergrads are making the grade
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Africa is turning against the tyrant
  • Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - The west has to tackle Tehran - before Israel sends in the bombers
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - We've done enough damage. All we can do is send food
  • Jan Morris: (The Guardian) - Davis's fight is not just for liberty. It is for Britain's soul
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In praise of ... the Museum of Reading
  • Deborah Orr: (The Independent) - How can you tell if witnesses are lying if they are allowed to remain anonymous?
  • William Gumede: (The Independent) - Amid the despair of Zimbabwe, there is still hope
  • Mary Dejevsky: (The Independent) - There's no reason why the world should go hungry
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - The NHS needs a dose of tougher medicine
  • Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - David Miliband must stop twitching so much
  • Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - How to see world economy through two crises

And from around the world...

  • Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - More phony myths
  • Thomas L. Friedman: (The New York Times) - Taking ownership of Iraq?
  • David Ignatius: (The Washington Post) - A surprise From Syria And Israel?
  • David Miliband: (International Herald Tribune) - Diplomacy must work
  • Paul Wolfowitz: (The Wall Street Journal) - How to put the heat on Mugabe
  • Malcolm Turnbull: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Rudd's big fraud: all symbols and no substance

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June 24, 2008

Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • David Aaronovitch: Intervention in Zimbabwe is the only solution
  • Rachel Sylvester: Who will finish off Gordon Brown? Follow the money
  • Stephen Pollard: Social mobility disappeared with grammar schools
  • Chris Ayres: All alone together, we're dining Facebook-style
  • Mick Hume: No, I won't have children telling me what to eat
  • Jonathan Fenby: To understand China's future, look to its past
  • Rosemary Righter: Free trade becomes a scapegoat as times get tough
  • Ann Treneman: James Bond fan Cameron tries to keep up with the Indiana Joneses
  • Gerard Baker: US Federal Reserve hoping for a calm summer
  • Leading Article: Zimbabwe: making it personal
  • Leading Article: Planning: think big
  • Leading Article: Gormless from Antony Gormley

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Boris Johnson: (The Telegraph) - Tony Blair and George W Bush ordered Iraq war - not me
  • Liz Hunt: (The Telegraph) - Primark has done little to make orphans any happier
  • Andrew O'Hagan: (The Telegraph) - Why pre-adolescents are obsessed with sex
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - What is the BBC for?
  • Irwin Stelzer: (The Guardian) - Brown's pale green policies are more honest than most
  • Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - The miserablists need a politics they can believe in
  • George Monbiot: (The Guardian) - Crime is falling - but our obsession with locking people up keeps growing
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In praise of ... the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain
  • Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - So now we will have degrees in quackery
  • Terence Blacker: (The Independent) - Our culture is just as censorious as it ever was
  • Steve Richards: (The Independent) - Gordon Brown is like a conjuror whose tricks don't seem to work any more
  • Leading article: (The Independent) - The pill enters the internet age
  • Peter Oborne: (The Daily Mail) - Is a bloody civil war the fate now for Zimbabwe?
  • Gideon Rachman: (The Financial Times) - Paths our of Zimbabwe's dead end

And from around the world...

  • David Brooks: (The New York Times) - The Bush paradox
  • Anne Applebaum: (The Washington Post) - No job for Mr. Nice Guy
  • Richard Cohen: (The Washington Post) - McCain's core advantage
  • Bret Stephens: (The Wall Street Journal) - The Bush doctrine is relevant again
  • Jeff Jacoby: (International Herald Tribune) - The coming population bust
  • Mo Ibrahim: (Mail & Guardian) - Zimbabwe is about all of us

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June 23, 2008

Monday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • William Rees-Mogg: Gordon Brown: Not such a good Chancellor, not such a bad Prime Minister
  • Libby Purves: Academic standards: the shame of our lap-dancing universities
  • Michael Gove: Q: When is a Royal Ascot hat not a hat?
  • Clive Coleman: Can justice afford witness anonymity?
  • Ben Freeth: 'All Robert Mugabe's campaigning goes on after dark'
  • Michelle Henery: At least Naomi Campbell has the guts to say what she thinks
  • Rosemary Righter: Free trade becomes a scapegoat as times get tough
  • Leading Article: Required reading for Gordon Brown
  • Leading Article: Ukraine: Long memories
  • Leading Article: Getting the right tennis kit for Wimbledon

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Janet Daley: (The Telegraph) - Gordon Brown blew it before dodging election
  • Jim White: (The Telegraph) - Bank teaches millionaire children to give
  • A N Wilson: (The Telegraph) - Gay bishops have changed my mind
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - South Africa might yet rescue Zimbabwe
  • Tristram Hunt: (The Guardian) - Just get over it, Ken
  • Jackie Ashley: (The Guardian) - It's no longer populist to put jobs ahead of the climate
  • Max Hastings: (The Guardian) - If we endorse yob behaviour in role models, we'll become a yob nation
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - A triumph for terror
  • Basildon Peta: (The Independent) - No, Tsvangirai was not right to pull out
  • Andreas Whittam Smith: (The Independent) - Buy when stocks are down? Let's explode that myth
  • Johann Hari: (The Independent) - When two sides of Islam go head to head
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - The downside of diplomas
  • Melanie Phillips: (The Daily Mail) - If Cameron has seen the light on grammar schools, there's real hope for the Tories
  • Clive Crook: (The Financial Times) - Hot air clouds the energy debate

And from around the world...

  • William Kristol: (The New York Times) - Someone else's Alex
  • Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - The fight for Turkey
  • Fred Hiatt: (The Washington Post) - Toehold in Tehran?
  • Foud Ajami: (The Wall Street Journal) - Anti-Americanism is mostly hype
  • Anatol Lieven and Alexis Rowel: (International Herald Tribune) - Three strikes and we're out
  • Kevin Rafferty: (The Japan Times) - The global food crisis: It's time to empower the world's have-nots

Posted by Alice Fishburn on June 23, 2008 at 07:43 AM in The Daily Fix | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

June 20, 2008

Friday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Gerard Baker: Which is a greater evil, inflation or recession?
  • Martin Samuel: A World Cup in England would go off the rails
  • Hugo Rifkind: Brixton: a sharing kind of place
  • Tristram Hunt: Barack Obama should swap Chicago for Phoenix
  • Alexandra Harney: Primark shows the hidden price of cheap fashion
  • Kirstie Main: Women soldiers: why I'm proud to be one of the lads
  • Bronwen Maddox: There is no clear answer to the ‘Irish problem’ — except to carry on under the existing rules
  • Ann Treneman: Boris Johnson's Olympic talk on Today show was like a car crash
  • Peter Riddell: Another crucial Bill, another possible revolt for Planning Bill
  • Gerard Baker: Which is a greater evil, inflation or recession?
  • Leading Article: Atrocities mount in Zimbabwe
  • Leading Article: John Gieve: the correct decision
  • Leading Article: Dangerous trees: barking mad

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Iain Dale: (The Telegraph) - Jack Straw is acting like Caligula in trying to stifle democracy
  • Con Coughlin: (The Telegraph) - Can desert kingdom Saudi Arabia take the heat out of oil price bubble?
  • Anne Applebaum: (The Telegraph) - Britain will have a chance to lead the way
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - The Anglican Church is divided, but not fatally
  • Polly Toynbee: (The Guardian) - The public deserves protection from the false hope of 'wonder drugs'
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - This icon of 60s New Brutalism has its champions. So let them restore it
  • Jonathan Steele: (The Guardian) - In the Jerusalem of the North, the Jewish story is forgotten
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - In praise of ... the fist bump
  • Dominic Lawson: (The Independent) - This is more than a political knock-about – it's the inexcusable smearing of an opponent
  • Philip Hensher: (The Independent) - Is it safe to revisit the harems?
  • Matthew Norman: (The Independent) - Prepare for the second wave of Obamania
  • Leading Article: (The Independent) - There is no reason for a blanket ban on GM crops
  • Quentin Letts: (The Daily Mail) - This lobbying stinks like a decapitated, ageing trout
  • Philip Stephens: (The Financial Times) - Saving the planet will be difficult, but do not despair

And from around the world...

  • David Brooks: (The New York Times) - The two Obamas
  • Michael Gerson: (The Washington Post) - A false moderate?
  • E.J.Dionne Jr.: (The Washington Post) - The battle for New Hampshire
  • Peggy Noonan: (The Wall Street Journal) - A life's lesson
  • Thomas W. Evans: (International Herald Tribune) - Sue OPEC
  • Ding Yifan : (China Daily) - New market players upset MNCs' old games

Posted by Alice Fishburn on June 20, 2008 at 07:41 AM in The Daily Fix | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

June 19, 2008

Thursday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Anatole Kaletsky: The economy: it's not as bad as the Sixties
  • Camilla Cavendish: Knife crime: we need to fear the law
  • Matthew Parris: When journalism descends into gobbledegook
  • Nick Rosen: The laughable state of our eco-towns
  • Mark Henderson: Our genes offer the best insurance
  • Melanie McDonagh: Renaming New Hall, Cambridge: an act of sheer egotism
  • Richard Beeston: Plan for peace in Middle East made without help of the White House
  • Ann Treneman: Lords disagree whether the death of the Lisbon treaty is really final
  • Leading Article: Israel: compromised Olmert reaches out
  • Leading Article: The economy: come back Prudence
  • Leading Article: Cyd Charisse: dancing queen

And from the rest of the papers...

  • Tim Montgomerie: (The Telegraph) - The Conservatives should woo the hard-working class
  • Iain Martin: (The Telegraph) - Our EU masters have no sense of shame
  • Mary Riddell: (The Telegraph) - It is time the Government tackled youth crime
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Britain's allies must do more in Afghanistan
  • Timothy Garton Ash: (The Guardian) - Instead of bullying the Irish, Europe should be working on plan D - and E
  • Bernard Trafford: (The Guardian) - We're not all toffs
  • John Harris: (The Guardian) - The new vegetarianism: meat is more murderous than ever
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - Rare opportunity to talk
  • Steve Richards: (The Independent) - The Tories want to deliver improved public services. But does their approach add up?
  • Johann Hari: (The Independent) - There is a smart drug – it's called breast milk
  • Adrian Hamilton: (The Independent) - This meeting in Saudi Arabia won't solve oil prices
  • Leading article: (The Independent) - Punishment, populism and a gap in perception
  • Robert Shrimsley: (The Financial Times) - A show of respect for the Irish voters
  • Keith Waterhouse: (The Daily Mail) - After these odd tests, the bin stops here

And from around the world...

  • Gail Collins: (The New York Times) - Bad day in the Rose Garden
  • Roger Cohen: (The New York Times) - The muck of the Irish
  • David Ignatius: (The Washington Post) - The right Iraq footprint
  • Roger Bate: (The Wall Street Journal) - Mugabe vows to hold power
  • Dan Koeppel: (International Herald Tribune) - Yes, we will have no bananas
  • John Garnaut: (The Sydney Morning Herald) - Browned off with pollution but China is trying hard

Posted by Alice Fishburn on June 19, 2008 at 07:25 AM in The Daily Fix | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

June 18, 2008

Wednesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • Alice Miles: Happy, twaddle-free Birthday to the NHS
  • Daniel Finkelstein: Vive la différence? It's a recipe for political disaster
  • Geoffrey Alderman: A grotesque bidding game is undermining university standards
  • Willem Buiter: Inflation: we can pay now or later
  • Ross Clark: Exams for estate agents? Don't fall for it
  • Robert Crampton: Why the iPod generation are emotional wrecks
  • Bronwen Maddox: It's tricky doing business when Russia won't play by rules
  • Ann Treneman: Gordon Brown - A freedom fighter who really takes a liberty
  • Peter Riddell: Seriously, it doesn’t pay to be in politics
  • Leading Article: France: Aux Armes
  • Leading Article: The Economy: Now Comes the Test
  • Leading Article: Destiny of the Stone

And from the rest of the papers....

  • Fraser Nelson: (The Telegraph) - David Cameron must free our schools
  • Emma Soames: (The Telegraph) - The grey army grows mightier every day
  • Irwin Stelzer: (The Telegraph) - President Barack Obama would be bad for Britain
  • Leading Article: (The Telegraph) - Hard economic times may not be that bad
  • Jonathan Freedland: (The Guardian) - A year in, it's clear: we got Brown wrong. He is simply not up to the job
  • Simon Jenkins: (The Guardian) - Loathing of elections has led British democracy to atrophy
  • Shirley Williams: (The Guardian) - An Irish wake-up call
  • Leading Article: (The Guardian) - War of terror
  • Hamish McRae: (The Independent) - The good news is the downturn won't be too deep – but the bad news is it will last longer
  • Mark Steel: (The Independent) - If the poor of Africa are hungry, send them arms
  • Deborah Orr: (The Independent) - Humiliating kids isn't the answer to crime
  • Leading article: (The Independent) - Strange indulgence of the sex industry
  • Edward Heathcote Amory: (The Daily Mail) - Labour said the Lisbon Treaty had been given the 'last rites'
  • Martin Wolf: (The Financial Times) - How imbalances led to credit crunch and inflation

And from around the world...

  • Maureen Dowd: (The New York Times) - American President pleads guilty to hopeless idealism
  • Thomas L. Friedman: (The New York Times) - Iraq: Still inscrutable
  • Ruth Marcus: (The Washington Post) - The court McCain wants
  • Thomas Frank: (The Wall Street Journal) - Lord, make me conservative, but not yet
  • Michael Fullilove: (International Herald Tribune) - Exaggerating America's decline
  • David Crossland: (Der Spiegel) - Death and flamenco in the afternoon

Posted by Alice Fishburn on June 18, 2008 at 06:26 AM in The Daily Fix | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) | Email this post

June 17, 2008

Tuesday's comment from the papers in...

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Today in Times Comment

  • David Aaronovitch: David Davis is no champion of freedom
  • Rachel Sylvester: We're sick of our whoopsadaisy pol