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The best opinion writing from Sunday’s papers, all in one place. Brought to you by Caroline Crampton.
Matthew d’Ancona in The Sunday Telegraph dealt with the big story of the weekend: Now that Labour are only two points behind in the polls, can David Cameron turn the fortunes of his party around? D’Ancona argued that this is election is all about the personalities, rather than the policies, and that it’s going to get bloody before it’s over.
Nick Cohen in The Observer wondered what US President Barack Obama’s neutral attitude thus far to the escalating Falklands situation will mean for his presidency, claiming that it “is fuelling the already widespread suspicion that Obama’s America has more respect for its enemies than its friends.”
Dominic Lawson in The Sunday Times took a look at “the chilling manifesto” of the pro-euthanasia lobby in the UK, arguing that campaigners such as Discworld novelist Sir Terry Pratchett are so caught up in the fanaticism of their cause that they cannot recognise that those against assisted suicide “might be as ‘enlightened’as they are.”
Steven Mufson and John Pomfret in The Washington Post assessed China’s attitude to key issues such as education, cyberspace, green energy and military expansion, and asked what it says about the state of affairs in the US that “the new red scare” is gaining such traction.
Ross Douthat in The New York Times issued a damning assessment of the bipartisan healthcare summit on Thursday, which he felt had a “comedy-sketch atmosphere.” Douthat feels that the politicians do not deserve congratulations for managing to hold a civil meeting, and that the summit in fact exposed the fundamental weaknesses on both sides of the debate.
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