So the government has accepted the Vickers report, which advises the separation of retail and investment banking.

....wait. Why does that sound familiar?

Oh yes.

We never learn.

Is this some kind of bad joke?

What a colossal and offensive waste of money. Really hope this whole story is nothing but a media stunt.

Oh god, I missed David Starkey on Newsnight. This was probably a good thing. Being as I got through nearly two minutes of this clip before I had to close it and go and breathe into a paper bag for a bit.

So. Yeah. I didn't like him before, but he lost me completely when he started quoting Enoch Powell.

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And you know what else makes me angry? These rioters, they've changed us. A week ago, the idea of a curfew, of the army on the streets of london, would have been an idea out of an Orwellian dystopia. Something unimaginable. Now people are calling for it. And maybe they're right, maybe it's the only way to get the situation under control again. But ( Read more... )

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