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a media service provided by New Statesman A digest of all today’s essential comment and opinion TODAY'S SUMMARY China will stick with North Korea for now 02 December 2010 China is unlikely to abandon its relationship with North Korea any time soon, writes David Pilling in the Financial Times. Beijing's more pressing concern is still to reduce US influence in the region, a goal incompatible with support for Korean integration. Also in the FT , George Bridges states that the coalition government is threatened by the "Clegg paradox": as the deputy Prime Minister's popularity among his own party declines, his influence in government remains. The newly-formed Commission on Assisted Dying is not an independent body but a collection of supporters of euthanasia, warns Ilora Finlay in the Times. In the Guardian, Prem Sikka suggests that the financial crisis could be solved by imposing a 25 per cent tax on the country's richest 1,000 people. Meanwhile, in the Independent , Michael Mumisa says that Government programmes intended to reduce the influence of extremist Muslim groups has caused a "civil war" among Britain's Muslims as sects compete for government money. CATEGORIES > UK Politics > International Politics > Economics & Business > Security & Defence > Environment > Science & Technology > Culture, Media & Sport > Health, Family & Society > Education > Human Rights, Law, Justice   If you would rather not receive this email, please unsubscribe from the list. CommentPlus is a Data Controller for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998. ©CommentPlus 2010. You are receiving this newsletter because you are a valued subscriber to New Statesman. Your email address has not been, and will not be, given to third parties.