In the FT, the new financial services secretary, Paul Myners, explains why a healthy economy needs strong commercial banks.
In the Guardian, Seumas Milne says banks are too important to be left in private hands.
Meanwhile, in the Times, Alice Thomson argues that bankers are still doing very nicely and that we should "save our compassion for the innocent victims" of the recession – workers far away from London.
Mary Riddell uses a column in the Daily Telegraph to complain that, in these straitened times, Gordon Brown should try harder to inspire us.
In the same paper, Iain Martin calls on the PM to nationalise the Royal Bank of Scotland, then rebuild capitalism.
In the Daily Mail, Peter Oborne wades into the row over the publication of MPs' expenses.
