The Independent

Just another day on Grace Dent's Twitter timeline: Joey Barton, Rebekah Brooks, Derek Acorah

Twitter might have turned into a party with 10 million guests, but I'm still loving every minute of it

Grace Dent: It's reached that tipping point like Facebook did five years ago where the world and his tech-literate dog started arriving.

Is this really how people should treat their pets?

Joan Smith: Dr Johnson was famously sniffy about dogs walking on their hind legs. So I'm not sure he'd have been entranced by Pudsey, the mop-haired pooch who won Britain's Got Talent.

Be bold, Ed – bring Alistair Darling back into the fold

Matthew Norman: Among rogues, fools and braggarts he shone out as a beacon of calm integrity and decency.

It's her needs that make my daughter special

Lisa Markwell: A label might sound nebulous - but for parents it can be the key to unlocking help.

Starve the Greeks and they'll feel better

Mark Steel: The bill for rubber stamps alone comes to twice that of the defence budget.

Germany reaps its reward for good behaviour

Hamish McRae: Virtue has been duly rewarded. That, at least, would seem to be the immediate conclusion to be drawn from the divergent paths taken by the German economy and that of much of the rest of the eurozone.