By James Macintyre

Amid the media storm created by the Foreign Secretary's bombshell article laying out a domestic political agenda yesterday, spare a thought for David Miliband’s brother.

Ed Miliband, himself increasingly seen by forward-thinking Labour figures as a future leader, today finds himself unwittingly caught between two parties within a party, remaining at once loyal to Gordon Brown and naturally close to the Prime Minister’s main rival. Even in a Labour party gripped by feverish summer infighting and introspection, it doesn’t get much more complicated than that.

By guest author, Jelena Subotic

Radovan Karadzic's appearance before the UN war-crimes tribunal in The Hague today is a welcome and important step for international justice.  It is also a huge boost for the new Serbian government. The international community is showering praise on its leadership, and the European Union has indicated that after years of isolation the country is finally on the road toward Brussels.  Serbia, we hear, has at last “turned the page” on its nationalist and violent past.

We should curb our enthusiasm. The European Union and other international players should worry that by quickly rewarding Serbia for arresting war crimes suspects they will end the debate about the past before it truly begins.

By Hamish McRae

One of the strange aspects of the collapse of the trade talks on the Doha round is the fact that it took seven years to reach disagreement. The politicians who started the whole process - or at least most of them - are no longer even in office. The really big issue now is whether bilateral discussions between countries can achieve what a grand central negotiating process cannot do.

We cannot know the answer to that  for a couple of years at least. Meanwhile the more immediate thing to look for in the coming months will be whether the downturn leads to more trade squabbles. Expect it to - and the issue then will be how well these will be contained.  My own fear (discussed in today's column) is that we might be close to some sort of peak in globalisation and might slither downwards into protectionism over the next decade or so. I thinks the odds are against that, for there is too much to lose; but the idea of a global trade war does not really bear thinking about.

In The Independent today:

Miliband may well have sealed Brown's fate - Steve Richards

We could keep drugs out of prison if we wanted to - Mary Dejevsky

The way to tackle fuel poverty - Vincent Cable

We should welcome China's growth, not fear it - Stuart Suimpsion

Do some work on holiday, Gordon - Terence Blacker

I'm innocent. So the police have no right to keep my DNA on file - Janet Street-Porter

The best of the rest:

A victory for democracy - Simon Tisdall, The Guardian

David Miliband is ready for battle, but someone else must pull the trigger - Mary Riddell, The Daily Telegraph

We'll pay a high price for free trade failure - Peter Mandelson, The Daily Telegraph

Olympic Games show China through a glass, darkly - Jonathan Fenby, The Times

The shadow of his smile - JoAnn Wypijewski, The Nation (US)

Court cases and terror - Beril Dedeoglu, Zaman (Turkey)

Low-Road Express - Editorial, The New York Times

Blowing smoke over Jerusalem - Douglas Bloomfield, The Jerusalem Post

Moniker who? What a lot of hula-baloo - Raybon Kan, The Sunday Star-Times (New Zealand)

By Sean O'Grady

It may just be me, but I can't help wondering whether Tony Blair is the real author of that famous article by David Miliband. After all, Miliband is very much Blair's protege, having run his policy unit for years in opposition and government, and written a couple of manifestos too. Both are architects of New Labour, and Blair must be weeping at the wreckage of the Blair Project (and not taking that much satisfaction in Brown's manifest failings). Everything that Blair and Miliband worked for - and Brown too, to be fair - will turn to dust in a couple of years, ground into the earth by a Tory landslide.

By Ben Chu

Harriet Harman's abiding commitment to gender equality over the years has been laudable, but I think she made a mistake in her interview with Woman's Hour today. Attacking the rumours that she is preparing a leadership bid she says: "They won't take no for an answer and when a woman says 'no', she means 'no'."

The problem here is not her denial, but her appropriation of the well-known anti-rape slogan.

By Adrian Hamilton

Whatever else the current outbreak of hysteria in the Labour government may have done, one point it has thrown up is the need to move to fixed terms for governments. It wouldn't alter the current fury over the leadership; indeed, if it was clear that Labour would have to go to the country at a set time, it might actually sharpen it. But it would at least put a stop to the shameful discussion in Labour ranks as to whether a new leadership would then rush into an early election or the existing Prime Minister hobble on to a time of his choosing.

By Ben Chu

If David Miliband's Guardian article is his pitch for the leadership, it seems clear that any future administration (or, more likely, opposition) led by him will place a greater emphasis on the environment. Indeed, his penultimate paragraph identifies green issues as one of the prime Tory-Labour political battlegrounds: "If people and business are to take responsibility, you need government to act as a catalyst. High polluting products will not disappear unless government regulates. New nuclear power stations need planning policy to facilitate them. And if we act through the EU, we green the largest single market in the world. In opposition, you can sound green while embracing Euroscepticism." Gordon Brown has never been a conviction politician when it comes to climate change. Miliband, who spent a year as Environment Secretary, seems much more serious about the green agenda.

By Jeremy Laurance

Sir Jonathan Michael was shocked by the stories he heard of neglect and mistreatment of people with learning disabilities who sought treatment on the NHS. Yesterday's report of the independent inquiry he chaired into the six deaths highlighted last year by Mencap calls for change "from top to bottom" in the NHS to ensure their needs are met.