George Osborne, writing in the Times, says the real choice between Labour and the Tories is not between investment and cuts, but between honesty and dishonesty, because all parties will need to cut spending.
A poll in the Financial Times suggests that a quarter of voters are extremely or very likely to vote for an independent candidate at the general election because of the expenses scandal.
Keith Marsden, a former World Bank adviser, says in the Wall Street Journal that Labour should consider ditching Gordon Brown because he "cannot honestly deny all responsibility for Britain's recession".
Ralph Tabberer, the government's former director-general of schools, tells the Daily Telegraph that academic standards are suffering because education policy is too concerned with fairness.
Alex Smith at LabourList rounds up some of the best comments from the Compass conference.
Paul Flynn on his blog on how meetings of the parliamentary Labour party are stage-managed.
