Mark Steel

The race to rescue the bankers

The next move, presumably, will be to nationalise the country’s gambling debts.

Bankers should bail themselves out

Thirty years we’ve had, of unfathomably wealthy bankers and dealers being justified as part of the free market.

What does Obama have to fear?

There’s no way of saying this without sounding a bit pretentious, but I was in Chicago a couple of weeks ago. And the most instructive person I met may have been a frail old Black woman in a newsagent, who picked up a newspaper with a photo of Barack Obama on it, and thrust it under my nose.

Putting the wrong ones on trial

There is a trial currently taking place in Belfast that seems to explain plainly how nothing makes any sense.