The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

Any normal and fair-minded person would have a perfect right to be concerned if a group of Romanian people suddenly moved in next door.

Puppet Papademos is in place, and as Athens caught fire on Sunday night he rather took my breath away - he said violence and destruction have no place in a democratic country.

But there's certainly only one thing I could never agree with George Galloway on. He's a teetotaller and wants to close all the bars in the House of Commons. That is just not on.

When an Occupy demo in the centre of Frankfurt makes world news, I shall hurry to join in.

Our feeling is that the status quo often gets a boost and this is the new status quo.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.