Vernon Bogdanor in the Times says Gordon Brown should consider an alliance with the Liberal Democrats.
Peter Oborne in the Spectator says Brown has become an irrelevance because Labour MPs are already preparing for a new leader.
Martin Beckford in the Daily Telegraph reports that Tony Blair has warned against Christianity being sidelined in Britain's "aggressively secularist" society.
Hopi Sen on his blog says the media coverage of Brown's visit to the US has been trivial and self-absorbed.
Mick Hume in the Times asks what has happened to mining communities since the strike ended 25 years ago.
Andrew Roberts in the Daily Mail says awarding Ted Kennedy an honorary knighthood shows Britain "at its most masochistic".
