There are two big policy debates raging at the moment in the newspapers: Grammar Schools and Housing.  By rights the former shouldn't be commanding the headlines it has as it is a re-statement of existing policy.  Margaret Hodge brings a genuinely new angle to the second with her remarks about "indigenous" people in her constituency who can't get a house.

The commentators are queuing up to guide you through the arguments.  You can read the main protagonists.  David Cameron in today's Times sets out his argument ("This sterile fixation with grammar schools is a dead end")  Janet Daley is so angry in her counterblast ("When did wanting the best for your children become a crime?") that it becomes rather entertaining.

Steve Richards, in The Independent, does a much better job at shedding light on the subject in "Cameron must learn the lessons of this pointless furore over grammar schools".  It seems that the newspaper's sub editor has done Richards a disservice by titling it so, as Richards actually concludes that Cameron has acted perfectly properly and that its the right wing press that are keeping the Conservative Party from achieving its greatest potential.

On the issue of housing there is "Ignore myths, stick to the facts" from Michael White in The Guardian and "Shame on you, Margaret Hodge" in the Telegraph (which is worth reading for the comments alone).

However, the best article of the day is in The Times, penned by David Aaronovitch.  "Come paddle with me in the soupy Middle Sea" draws the grammar schools and Housing strands together in a hymn of praise for the centreground in politics today. 

"[Parties moving to the centre] is only a difficulty if you think that, say, climate change is either not a threat or quite fun, or that Britain should become a very high-tax or very low-tax economy. If you don’t think those things it is positively capricious to blame politicians for not conjuring up imaginary storms just to keep you entertained.

Outrageous policy pronouncements like those by Margaret Hodge and Janet Daley sell more newspapers than prosaic arguments of the centreground.  However, that doesn't make grammar schools right. It just means that politicians of the centre need to work harder on presentation.