Boris Johnson in the Daily Telegraph says that man will never land on Mars because society is now too averse to risk.
The whole thing (the landing on the moon) was so touch-and-go that it simply wouldn't be allowed today. The insurers wouldn't go near it. The risk assessments would be fatal to any such venture.
David Willetts in the Times defends the Conservative proposal to recognise marriage in the tax system.
The main argument does not, however, depend on any nudge to behaviour. It is simply that it is unjust not to recognise the legal commitment to maintain someone else when the tax authorities are deciding on your tax liability.
Tim Montgomerie at ConservativeHome has some advice for how David Cameron should cope with the fact that most of his team lack ministerial experience.
Of existing frontbenchers only Alistair Burt, Ken Clarke, Liam Fox, William Hague, Francis Maude, Andrew Mitchell and David Willetts have held government posts (Oops! 11.30am correction: I missed Simon Burns, James Clappison, Cheryl Gillan and Patrick McLoughlin from my list). What should he do? Some quick thoughts:
Digby Jones in the Mail on Sunday on his experience as a minister, and why people with proper executive experience from outside parliament should serve in government.
Jacqui Smith is a good woman, trying to change the world for the better as she sees it. But expecting her to deliver in the post of home secretary without a scintilla of experience or training was not only unfair on her but damaging to us all.
Morus at PoliticalBetting on Labour's decision to raise fox hunting as an issue in the Norwich North byelection.
I don't know if this is a brilliant move, or the death knell of the Labour party as a campaigning organisation.
Anthony Wells at UK Polling Report on what is happening to "others" in opinion polls.
As support for others recedes, it's the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats who are benefitting. All the pollsters have the Conservatives and Lib Dems rising as the others drop away, with Labour variously static, falling, or marginally up.
