First off, Nick Robinson, in his blog today, comments on the bread and butter issues that are likely to be of more concern to most voters than a financial crisis they don't really see the direct effects of.
The Telegraph is reporting that David Dimbleby is thinking of quitting Question Time if the BBC inists on moving its production to Glasgow. Iain Dale's blog had a poll for his putative successor - Andrew Neill just beat Paxman in the result.
Conservative Home's Centre-Right blog finds that you can blame Bill Clinton for the credit crunch.
In the new Standpoint magazine, American sociologist Charles Murray suggests that not every child really needs an academic education, and we are wasting our resources providing it.
"Fifty per cent of children are below average in linguistic and logical-mathematical ability. Being below average means that they are limited in the things they can do in reading and maths. It is no more remarkable than being limited in the things one can do in sport or music."
And Bill Jones reflects on Gordon Brown's astonishing resurrection...it's the stuff that makes politics exciting!
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More interesting is that 99% of the population can't spot a pointless tautology when they see one!
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