A beautiful morning, and a lovely 25 minute run. And what's more, the news headlines, whilst not positively good, are not entirely bad either.
Obama has announced a large scale troop withdrawal from Afghanistan, which is a bit of a damned if you do & damned if you don't situation. By making the only sensible decision, to withdraw, he also puts the spotlight on what, if anything, has been achieved in the last 10 years apart from a very expensive manhunt.
Ai Weiwei has finally been released by the Chinese, albeit on bail following charges of alleged tax evasion, and unlike the thousands of other political prisoners who haven't proved to be such an embarrassment to the Chinese government..
And the UK government is allegedly considering giving each member of the electorate shares in the Royal Bank of Scotland, since we own 83% of it anyway, to "reduce mistrust in the banking system". Now, given what the banks have done and are still doing despite massive exposure of corruption, bad judgement and pure greed, it will probably take more than a bribe of £770 to restore our trust, or even restore the popularity of Nick Clegg, who is fronting the plan, but it will be entertaining to see how the government wriggle out of actually doing it.
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