Activist and comedian Mark Thomas reports from the Commons on the day when the bankers were hauled in to say they were (sort of) sorry. We ask whether the next person who will have to apologise is Gordon Brown.
Columnist Seumas Milne thinks the PM has been hanging around with the money men for so long that he now has his work cut out to avoid being tarred with the same brush.
With unemployment all but reaching the 2 million mark, we hear that no
industry and no part of the country is safe. But Guardian comment chief
Georgina Henry explains that – wherever you look – it is women, not men, who are bearing the brunt of the downturn.
And in the week when the home office said it would ignore the view of its
expert advisers that ecstasy should be downgraded to class B, the
Guardian's economics editor Larry Elliott – who is also a magistrate – tells us how the rhetorical war on drugs ends up doing real damage in the courtroom.
