A funny sort of a day really. The main news stories are the financial crisis and the American election. Not many jokes left in either of those so here's a link to an article by our occasional guest columnist Sir hector Gobbett-Broadsides the veteral right winger who has been MP for Rawtenborough singe 1832 ( that's a joke for political science grads.) who exponds his theory on how we may help the poor and solve the energy crisis and the climate change problem all in one by putting children to work on treadmills hooked up to generators.
Broadsides on the Energy Crisis

Elsewhere you might like to read Andrew Keen on The 2008 TV Election The U.S. based British media guru cites the Palin effect as proving that it is still television and not the internet that shapes the most opinions.

At the beginning of the week I was appalled by the carnage in the financial markets. News of each corporate collapse, each new stock market disaster made me thing "oh that's terrible, what will happen to those poor people whose life savings are going down the pan. By Thursday I had started to think, OK its tough but hey, its not war famine or plague is it. On hearing of the latest bad news my recation was, "record losses on the stock market, who gives a fuck?" American blogger Wonkette feels the same apparently. Plunging markets blah blah blah

Momento Mori Gordon - Benedict Brogan Daily Mail blogger (yes we're shameless, we'll trade links with anyone) Benedict Brogan predicts the fallout from the financial meltdown will have dire consequenses for Gordon Brown

The Man Who Predicted The Credit Crunch Daniel Finkelstein at Times Online picks up on a book called The black Swan the author of which claims he predicted the credit crunch. That's stretching things a bit and what about the claims of Terry Pratchett whose discworld novel Making Money is just as prescient and a lot funnier.