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Today's Top Ten Must-Reads

• 1 We must defy Strasbourg on prisoner votes

  David Davis and Jack Straw, The Daily Telegraph

  The judges in Europe have exceeded their authority by trying to overrule British law.

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• 2 Some prisoners have earned the right to vote, so let them

  Jonathan Aitken, The Guardian

  Giving only prisoners released on temporary licence the vote may placate MPs and avert a costly clash with Europe.

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• 3 Britain's conundrum: no growth, and no easy answers

  DeAnne Julius, The Financial Times (£)

  It is not a crisis. It is not unique to Britain. But such a long period of stagnation – confirmed again by Thursday’s downward revision of gross domestic product – has real costs, especially to weak companies and new entrants to the job market.

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• 4 Britain can’t afford to fall for the charms of the false economics Messiah Paul Krugman

  Jeremy Warner, The Daily Telegraph

  Superstar economist Paul Krugman wants us to change course, but his solutions are simplistic.

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• 5 A good 'spad' is trusted by the minister – and speaks for him

  Catherine MacLeod, The Independent

  Being a special adviser at the heart of the Government is necessarily a privileged but hugely sensitive role.

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• 6 At last! David Cameron is listening to his backbenches: on gay marriage, Lords reform and prisoners' votes

  James Chapman, The Daily Mail

  Mr Cameron is certainly going through the most testing period of his premiership. But the idea that he is dangerously divorced from his MPs isn’t borne out by recent events.

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• 7 If the voters are afraid, Obama should be too

  William Rees-Mogg, The Times (£)

  Americans will be looking for action, not inspiring words, on their troubled economy

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• 8 If socialists really did run the show, working people would benefit

  Owen Jones, The Independent

  Rather than having to engage in debate, an opponent can be dismissed as extremist.

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• 9 Yes, special needs children deserve more, and that's what we will give them

  Sarah Teather, The Guardian

  John Harris says children with special educational needs will lose out in a rush to reform. Far from it – they'll get a better deal.

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• 10 Murdo Fraser MSP: Consumers, not governments, should choose the energy mix

  Murdo Fraser, ConservativeHome Platform

  Instead of the Government directing energy policy from the centre, let the people choose.

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