Premier league debt time bomb ?

£3.1 billion it's all wrong really and it can't last., and i am pretty sure the rest of Europe won't put up with it much longer. If we had a government with some gonads i'd like to think something would get done about here. I am not holding my breath.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009/jun/02/premier-league-clubs-debt

New shirt sponsors to help manage the Glazer gimps debts. What will come out of the woodwork about this lot. Let's face it they don't care too much where they get the money from do they.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/manchester-united-agree-huge-shirt-sponsorship-deal-1696088.html

Henry Winter thinks United should try to land Benzema, he is going to be a top player, that's for sure. But i think the economic realities of that debt will start to hit home this summer as Real Madrid, Chelsea and as unreal as it sounds City will be fighting over players this summer.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/leagues/premierleague/manutd/5401914/Karim-Benzema-could-lift-Manchester-United-to-next-level.html

Comedy club starts to get serious. He is not a great player but it's probably a good place to start rebuilding the squad from, unfortunately.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/premier-league/city-start-spree-with-rapid-16312m-barry-deal-1695409.html

Simon Jenkins on the current political mess and the need to decentralise, which he doesn't believe will be delivered.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jun/02/democracy-mps-expenses
He writes a lot of sense but i can't see how he belives you can deliver that without voting reform which he doesn't support. Both the tories and New labour have ruled for almost 30 years and are still busy trying to centralise everything either when in government or in opposition.

I hold no brief for the MP' with their fingers in the tills, and think they should all be thrown out of parliament, but it is very very small beer compared to what the economic catastrophe financiers almost brought us down to not that long ago. And the owners of the paper that is crucifying our politicians are as low as you can get. When all of this passed us and we hopefully we have seen the right reform let's hope some of our politicians have some sense, some balls and bring some of these wankers back down to size. Revenge might be the motive that actually makes it happen.
Robert Peston on the reforms that surprise, surprise aren't happening in the business sector. Leave it to the market, yeah, right
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/

John Pilger lays into the state of Britain, but does see some sign of optimism
http://www.newstatesman.com/uk-politics/2009/06/pilger-blair-iraq-british-mps

Music
Bat for lashes - Two suns: This starts of at the same level as the last album but fades a bit after half way. As a few of the reviews said when it was released this seems to have been aimed at a more mainstream audience and it does suffer a bit for that.
Clark - Clarence park: This was his debut effort and it's fairly good, it's obviously heavy duty electronica, not dancing to this. Turning dragon was more accomplished but a few years down the road it ought to have been, i suppose.
Fever ray - Fever ray: More left field electronica though of a more song based stance. It has to be said i love this kind of stuff nowadays. It's never going to bother the charts which suits me as i can't stand anything that i hear inthe charts nowadays ( not that i know who any of it is ).
Four tet - Pause: It's electronica all the way in this batch and this is another album that i love. Completely made on a laptop apparently you would never know as there are stringed instruments amongst the sounds sampled.
Howling bells - Radio wars: The sole indie group in this mix this Aussie outfit don't scale any heights, it's a decent listen but pretty forgettable once taken of your system.
Karen Dalton - In my own time: A cult album from the early seventies, this folk, come country rock at times, has some brilliant moments but a couple of duds for me as well. Her voice sounds great when she picks the right track but sometimes completely wrong. Opener Sometimes on your mind is a total classic and it's not on it's own.