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The top five comment pieces from today's papers-on recapitalising the poor, Brown's U-turns, the meaning of equality, literary feuds and Iran
Philip Blond explains how to recapitalise the poor and free them from welfare dependence in the Guardian.
In the Independent, Steve Richards argues that Gordon Brown's U-turns on 42 days detention, the abolition of the 10p tax and the part-privatisation of Royal Mail reveal a man trying too hard to create a big tent.
In the Times, Roy Hattersley demolishes John Denham's claim that the left should abandon its focus on equality.
Following Alain de Botton's verbal assault on a New York Times reviewer, Philip Hensher explains why slighted authors should remain silent and civil.
The FT's Philip Stephens on Israel's inability to engage with a changing Iran.
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