Comment Headlines
Stories dominating today's comment pages...
- Election speculation is rife today with Benedict Brogan in The Daily Mail going for November 1 or 8, Kevin Maguire in the Daily Mirror warns against Labour complacency while Fergus Shanahan in The Sun thinks an election this year is a certainty. View...
- David Cameron has to make the speech of his life at the Tory party conference says Richard Littlejohn in The Daily Mail and Alice Thomson in The Daily Telegraph agrees, Jeff Randall in The Telegraph says people are fed up with his oily chat-up lines while Polly Toynbee in The Guardian says Boris Johnson could become Cameron's buffoonish shadow. View...
- An interest rate cut is needed to boost the economy in the wake of the credit crisis agree Stephen Kahn in the Daily Express and Lucy Farndon in The Daily Mail. View...
Leader Lines
We select the most interesting leaders of the day...
- IMMIGRATION TIMEBOMB: In a nation experiencing the biggest wave of immigration in history, Labour's habit of getting the figures wildly wrong becomes ever more worrying. The Daily Mail
- INTEREST RATES: If the Bank of England is to cut rates, it should do so no later than November. There is a case for waiting but a cut next week would boost confidence and forestall any slowdown says the Financial Times
- POLITICS: Is Gordon Brown a prime minister with the policies of John Kerry/Al Gore and the paranoia of Richard Nixon asks The Times
Comment Cornucopia
Some of the wide-ranging topics covered today...
- Just when we might have hoped that the gossip surrounding the Madeleine McCann case could sink no lower, the world media managed it, by effectively conspiring to accuse a Moroccan olive farmerâs family of kidnapping her, says Mick Hume in The Times
- British Airwaysâ announcement that is has ordered 36 eco-friendly planes will allow people to feel less guilty about flying says Mary Dejevsky in The Independent
- Gerard Baker writes an open letter to âPrudenceâ from âGordonâ, stating how its services are no longer needed by the Government as Naked Opportunism and Sheer Expedience are taking over in The Times
Thought for the day
Ben Macintyre in The Times says the Burmese junta has great faith in astrology and moved from Rangoon to a malarial town in the jungle on the advice of an astrologer.
Janet Daily in the Daily Telegraph cannot write a word wrong for me... If I needed a speech writer it would be her. I also admire what Anatole Kaletsky in The Times, Peter Ridell in The Times, and Irwin Stelzer in The Sunday Times write and I generally agree with Roger Bootle in the FT.
Brooks Newmark MP Conservative Whip and member Treasury Select Committee
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