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Jay Cost asks: “Why has the President embraced such a highly partisan posture, one he was decrying just three years ago?” That’s easy – the makeup of Congress has changed dramatically since those days. Everyone wants people to be bipartisan when they’re in the political minority. When you’re king of Washington, you don’t really care.

Britain expected to be “mired in a deflation trap for years,” economists warn. “The forecast is based largely on the bank’s prediction that the unemployment rate will soar to 10.4pc of the workforce by 2011, depressing the wider economy, and underlines the disparity between economists’ expectations for the coming years.” Maybe they should sell DVDs?

Radovan Karadzic, former Bosnian Serb leader now held on war crimes charges, claims Richard Holbrooke (currently special envoy on Afghanistan and Pakistan) promised him immunity from prosecution in exchange for stepping down from power. Holbrooke denies this, but a new study from Purdue supports Karadzic’s claim. Another Obama official in hot water?

Good jokes are too unique to be memorable, according to a bunch of smart folks. “The structure and punchlines of cliched gags are so predictable it makes them easy to recall…good jokes work in the opposite way to a poem or piece of music.” Ladies and Gentlemen, we give you Paul Blart: Mall Cop.