First of all, an apology. This is only the second post to this blog, as Blogger's Anti-Spam-Bots flagged up my first post as spam. I thought it was considered and thoughtful comment, but one man's meat is another man's etc and so on!
As such I seem to have ended up with quite a range of subjects that I felt I should have blogged on, but haven't had the chance. The banking crisis continues to claim more victims, with the whole of Iceland pulling out of global stock trading. Channel 4 managed to unearth a Londoner who'd invested with an Icelandic bank, which was paydirt for Jon Snow (and his tie).
The major political point related to this has been Angela Merkel's decision to assure her citizen's that the nation will guarantee their savings. Alastair Darling was very unhappy about this, as he was seemingly determined not to be forced to follow suit at this stage. The Guardian's Business section (even though this is a political blog) reports it here.
The US Presidential race rumbles on as interminably as it ever does. Were it not for the dire state of the World's finances (and the Olympics) this would've been the lead story on practically every edition of Channel 4 news this year.
The "debates" seemed to have turned to mud-slinging over the past few days, after Le Palin's comments abour Senator Obama's alleged links to Bill Ayers. You can find out more about Ayers right here. But beware of Wiki-ality!
It does seem that as the Republicans seem to sense this race slipping through their fingers, they've switched from policy debates to personal attacks. That doesn't mean the Democrats are above that sort of thing, however, and they've dragged up Sen McCain's involvment in a financial scandal 20 years ago. The BBC touches on it here.
Finally the BBC has a poll tracker that you feel certain Peter Snow must've had a hand in. It don't mean a thing if you aint got that swing-ometer.
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