Paul Krugman (blog here) speaks at the LSE yesterday evening. Today he his interviewed on Today. Here. And Nigel Ferguson responds from the right, here.

David Cameron calls Ed-Balls a 'muttering idiot'. (Ed Balls sits there repeating again and again '...what about the recession'?) Here. Naughty-step David.

A free-marketeer debates a Keynesian. Here. They don't agree at all. They can't both be right. how is it possible that they come to such opposing conclusions?

Why did the Queen get wet? Because, she had a lunch in a room full of reigning monarchs. Report here. And a glimpse of the toffs here.

That's why I'm so funny. Sacha Barron Cohen explains here.

Discobolus. Here.

A conversation about Facebook's impending floatation, between two people who don't seem to get it. Here.  Rory Cellan-Jones - well he never gets it, but Sir Martin Sorell? The way Sit Martin explains it, Facebook doesn't seem to have a business, - so how are they going to generate a profit? And how can they be worth $1000,000,000?

National pay-cut (circa 2.0%  a year). People are becoming poorer. And is it Britain that's  'pulling down the Euro-area'. All this and more cheery stuff - here. Enjoy.

Cable-cars across the Thames. I like it. Here. Well, not here - there - and I'm becoming increasingly jealous. Why am I not living in London?

Is 'capitalism' ethical? Here. Henry Jackson Initiative. Here.

Surviving the Khmer Rouge Here.  The book here. About Comrade Duch - here.

Ahmed Rashid writes in Haaretz. Here.

Lyse Doucet in Homs, Syria. Here.

In this (brilliant) documentary, a young  fashion model (seems pretty successful), Samira Hashi, visits the capital of war-torn Somalia, Mogadishu, where she was born.  Her website - here. No Hirsi Ali, but she is (relatively) very young. What will she be (thinking and) saying in ten years from now?

Culture committee's report on phone-hacking here.