BBC Blog Man Blamed by Banks

Every day we hear of a new casualty and a new survival plan. Alistair 'Strictly' Darling was heard speaking on a radio about saving the Ice Age - it's too late for that, darling! Meanwhile Robert Peston's BBC blog was blamed by banks for causing the greatest FTSE nosedive since the last one. A case of blaming the messenger methinks. (How cute and ugly, the inclusion of "methinks"; a kind of smug use of ye olde English for no apparent reason). Anyway, whilst we are on the power of the word and the language of crisis, why not read Frank Furedi's take on the crunch and perchance you may stumble across an insight or two. And if you can't be bothered because you are too busy battening down your hatches, then here is a juicy smidgin:

In the first instance, the current deliberations on the global financial crisis demonstrate a failure of language and a failure of the imagination.

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