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Around the blogs - 9 Oct

by ianrthorpe @ 2008-10-09 - 14:40:10

We're expecting big news from the American election trail overnight. As usual Little Nicky Machiavelli will be ready to point to the really interesting stuff we do not see in the British Press. Until that story break however here are a few more local issues:

We're all socialists now Teleraph columnist Simon heffer thinks the bank bail out has truned us into a modern version of the Soviet Union.

All Hail The Bunha Bail Out The government's plan to rescue the economy was hatched over a takeaway curry. I've made better plans over takeaway curries before now, but what was on Alistair Darling's order

Time to grasp the fiscal nettle The only way to steer the world back to reality after this crisis is to accept that just because someone says an asset is with £Xmillion, that does not mean it is actually worth anything.
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The Age Of irresponsibility - When did it start asks political commentator Michael White of the era that has just crashed and burned. When Thatcher abolished legal constraints on the rich or did the irresponsibility begin before that?

And finally... a welcome bit of humour from the American election, A comic book look at McCain and Obama

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