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...the world comes crashing down...

jeepers. get a grip.

there is enough money. this is a crisis among banking egos. Why? because they are not being honest with each other. This inability to have the humility to be honest means it has spread into the wider context.

HARRY HART

A pity Newsnight did not see the potential of Harry Hart. There is a WORLD of difference between industrial algae exploitation and ecological agae application - even though they, obviously, overlap. Harry's relegation to a clip on the blog will have to serve - as a poignant comment on our Age.

Perhaps it is just me but after we spend half a trillion I would have though a few million to hold a public inquiry once the dust settles was value for money.

To me it looks like oversight. To Brown bankers were the problem.

Nobody barring your think tank last night (more from them then?) seemed to see this coming.

Assuming we do pull through this, and I assume it is not written in stone, we don't want it to happen again.

If it was the regulatory, or lack of a regulatory, regime then I think Brown should resign.

If this isn't a man-made crisis of epic proportions then what is?

Palin as President perhaps?

Separately do we know whether Hillary got her $10m?

Oh on the latest missing hard drive - is somebody going to raise the issues that we need:

a) A proper IT cross Government security policy with teeth that works.

b) No outside contractors because though we may save some money, and I think it is may, in the long run there will always be conflicts on interest that impact on security. Such as profits.

What is the likelyhood of Gordon Brown getting money back from Iceland? I heard that there were over 80 councils in England and Wales who had invested their money in them. What happens now?

After yesterdays failure to pin all the blame on the Tories - can't you launch an investigation into the Tories role in the 1929 crash, the South Sea Bubble of 1720 and the Dutch Tulip mania of 1637 etc etc etc ?

I found it interesting to watch the body language of Kirsty Wark interviewing Purnell - who did not answer anything - was alot more 'gentle' ( some would say supine) than the subsequent interview of Osborne.



Hows this for future investigations
1. sale of our gold at its lowest point
2. sale of BNFL's nuclear power plant manufacturing unit to the Japanese just before GB decides to go for Nuclear power ( a precondition of French help?)
3. the Enron style accounting of PFIs
4. the Enron style accounting of public sector pensions

Links have gone live?! Someone's been busy burrowing away in coding land... Happy days, surely.

Cloe_F (#7) You made some valuable contributions (thank you), but most people didn't learn.

JJ: briefly, the comment format for links and a few other bits seem to have changed, not just on the NN but across ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ blogs.

Haven't tested it but looks like, as well as html codes for linksandformatting, a simple (copied/pasted) URL address will go live - /newsnight - although just www.bbc.co.uk/newsnight won't.

My hunch is that the 'gremlins' probably tag the https:// and declare anything following it (without spaces) as the link. So a space in the address - / newsnight - would break it; equally failure to put a space after the link - /newsnight_like_this_example - would end up with a 404.

This looks like a hick-up during system update.

The "Being discussed now" order has also been amended (again): seemingly it's back to listing blogpost in order of the latest comment added. For a while listing was by date of blogpost and older ones simply disappeared, new comments added or not. This had already been 'fixed' a few weeks ago when a new comment on an old post would make it reappear at the bottom of the list - a clever solution that looked pretty too. But guess newest version is more intuitive and should make following 'active' blogposts easier.