Alastair Campbell, on his blog, says that anyone criticising Sinn Féin's reaction to the Antrim shootings should remember that "Gerry Adams and Martin McGuinness go about their business with a modicum of fear that someone might come along and blow their brains out".
Paul Bew, professor of Irish politics at Queen's University, Belfast, writes in the Times that this is a "decisive moment in the history of the 'Brits out' mentality in Northern Ireland".
Angus Macleod in the Times reports that Gordon Brown's speech to the Scottish Labour conference almost had to be cancelled because the prime minister lost a contact lens down a plughole.
Martin Wolf in the Financial Times launches a series on the future of capitalism with an essay arguing that the assumptions that dominated policy over the last three decades "suddenly look as outdated as revolutionary socialism".
Mike Smithson at PoliticalBetting wonders whether Labour may do worse in the European elections because the all-postal voting pilots that took place in 2004 won't be happening again.
Alix Mortimer at Liberal Democrat Voice discusses Nick Clegg's speech at the Lib Dem spring conference yesterday.
