Pick of the Commentators

In The Independent today:

In a hidden corner of the EU, defenceless children are suffering unimaginable cruelty  - Dominic Lawson

Where morality is just an excuse for public bullying - Terence Blacker

Could it be that Brown is worse than Blair?  - Matthew Norman

The old owe it to the young to fight this law  - Joan Bakewell

British teens aren't cultural cretins  - Thomas Sutcliffe

The future is getting closer all the time - Christina Patterson

A daffodil in their buttocks for three billion pieces of information  - Simon Carr's Sketch

Best of the rest:

The Lib Dems face a clear choice: get radical or fudge into eternal decline - Polly Toynbee, The Guardian

The assault on geography breeds ignorance and erodes nationhood - Simon Jenkins, The Guardian

Warn your children: alcohol is a killer - Alice Thomson, The Telegraph

Our covenant with the Armed Forces - Ben Coughlin, The Telegraph

Pope gets radical and woos the Anglicans - Damian Thompson, The Telegraph

Let them in. But it's still a mess - Gerard Baker, The Times

The biggest library ever built - Ben Macintyre, The Times

What about Ian Blair, Boris was asked. 'Yup. Er, um, he should go,' said the oracle - Quentin Letts, The Daily Mail