Worth a look

Sean O'Grady in the Independent asks whether the banking bail-out could bankrupt Britain.

Meanwhile, the BBC's Paul Mason, on his blog, offers five reasons why the economic situation may be more dire than people realise.

And Nick Clegg tells the Financial Times, in an interview, that joining the euro could be "part of the recipe ... by which we put the British economy back together".

Alice Miles in the Times says that either Ed Miliband or James Purnell is likely to be the next Labour leader and that Miliband has "a touch of Obama magic about him".

Nicola Smith at the TUC's Touchstone blog talks about how research shows that women will be hit more by this recession than they were in previous ones.

Dave Osler at Liberal Conspiracy asks why leftwing publications are so dull.