I love George Monbiot's phrase, The leaked drafts of the G8's climate change agreement have placed the future in square brackets. But apparently now the US is going to admit to ghe existence of climate change (but refuse to do anything meaningful about it). And of course we're talking big, but acting small. Incidentally, it seems that Monbiot is preparing for a possible future career in Kung-Fu films, or suchlike; never mind poor lip sync, the audio was a couple of seconds off when he appeared tonight on Newsnight. Newsnight's correspondent Paul Mason (with blog) still interesting (just now from the Ochils).

And we may or may not have a 100% (conditional?) debt cancellation. But it seems a lot more likely than real progress on trade and climate change...

Yesterday's trouble/protests/riots in Edinburgh were not unexpected, and so surprisingly being painted as the result of violent anarchists or charging riot police depending on who you ask. With some Neds thrown in. In any case, will be worth watching the news this week, and unfortunately more violence seems inevitable tomorrow.

You can chase your own links, I'm off to bed.