1. Tenants are targeted to launder cash (Drug traffickers accrue multi-million pound social housing portfolios)

Criminals across England have been laundering money by offering it to social tenants to buy their homes under the right to buy or the right to acquire. As well as admiring the creativity, one thinks that this rather calls into question the Thatcherite ’society of homeowners idea’. It’s got The Wire written all over it.

2. Back to the 1970s, or the early 1920s?

Loveable Bear Ambrose Evans Pritchard suggests ‘tentatively’ a 1920s sceanrio, in which certain Euro countries and the States enter a period of hyperinflation, while the Atlantic economies and Japan go into a deflationary slide.

3. Scientists warn of bird flu epidemic

In short, a strain of H5N1 has moved a step closer to developing the traits required to create an epidemic of the disease in humans. "Scientists said the evidence suggested that bird flu could be transmitted between humans." When that becomes a definite, it’s time to run for the hills.

4. George Soros: ‘We face the most serious recession of our lifetime’

"In the UK, the economic clouds are particularly dark, he says. House prices have risen over the years and are further away from sustainable than in practically any other country, in terms of household indebtedness and the relationship of house prices to incomes. The slump may be more gentle than in the US, he adds, but it will be more drawn out."

5. MP: All Adults Should Carry Carbon Ration Cards

I have yet to see a more persuasive indicator for those who argue Global Warming is just a ruse to instantiate more thorough social control.

6. Cleaning the stables

Willem Butler meditates on the corrupting influence of power, with specific examples, and names.

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