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What Larry Summers will do next

Could this the Treasury's next step? The Onion certainly thinks so.

Treasury Department Issues Emergency Recall Of All US Dollars

The BBC goes clubbing

A little bit of light relief with this oldie from Bill Bailey.

Have your say on Brown's star quality

So, Gordon Brown was on American Idol last night. Alas, he was not belting out karaoke classics; he was promoting an anti-malaria drive. But, what with the tan, the teeth and the smiles, the performance did have something of the game-show host to it. Stick with this clip through the advertisments and see for yourself:

And while we're basking in the bottled charisma that is Brown on the box, let's remind ourselves of last November's spontaneous outpouring of delight that Countdown had been on television for 20 years:

Well, what do you think?

Opinion Polls & Market Research

Lights, Camera, Action. Cue Fred Thompson

Fred Thompson made his big debate entrance on the Republican stage last night. But what happened next? Jon Stewart analyses the actor-turned-presidential-candidate's performance.

Alice Fishburn

Anything you can do

The primary battle neatly and wittily summarised:

Check it

Clive Davis has found a video of Ali G interviewing "Norman" Chomsky. Watch it here.

What Lib Dems should tell Ming

Footage to accompany my article on Sir Menzies Campbell:

Cigarettes are good for you!

But only if smoked in their "normal amount", ten to forty a day...

Murad Ahmed

(Hat Tip: VideoSift)

Jew kills Mickey Mouse

The good news - Hamas children's TV has finally dispensed with Farfour, its Islamist Mickey Mouse.

The bad news - here's how they did it:

The gut reaction on Hillary

Andrew Sullivan has posted a Hillary campaign video (see it below) and is soliciting opinions on it.

So here are mine - unexceptional, uninteresting, professional, not an election winner, not an election loser, soft, doesn't raise any issues which might make anyone change their vote one way or another, won't be remembered within moments of being screened. It was a front runner's, play safe video.

But then here is Andrew's:

It made me gag. Sorry, she just does it to me.

Viewed from this side of the Atlantic, Hillary seems to have it all - a terribly unpopular Republican President, a strong Democratic opponent who isn't strong enough, the advantage of being the first woman with a serious shot at the White House, the Clinton name, the Clinton machine, the Clinton money, the sense to know where to pitch herself in order to win.

But you come back and back to comments like Andrew's.

The brain says Hillary, but the gut...