It's been a fine day for neo-capitalist wonks the world over.

In the UK the NHS is just about to be shagged into submission by the mighty tory member that Thatcher was itching to take to it but didn't have the hairy balls to. Luckily, the balls have dropped of the shiny and well-scrubbed Etonion advocate of the 'big society' and in boringly (boorishly?) predictable fashion is intent on handing a wodge of it over to the private sector.

Goldman-Sachs have flicked two fingers (or given the bird for our US brothers and sisters) to everyone suffering the hardships of the recession by gleefully paying over $15 billion in bonuses to it's staff. Heck, and we're worried about the NHS and libraries closing! Foreclosures? Pah! Usury? The way of the future!

Meanwhile, in the White House the capitalist elite finally shrug off the chains of morality (the emperor's new chains?) by feting the dictator of a brutal, vicious and horrifically oppressive regime and agree the Tibetans, freedom of speech and just about anything else pertaining to human rights (except of course being a consumer) and personal freedom can go fuckkity-bye. After all, we've got to make a few quid haven't we. They'll be singing with joy in the Laogai tonight (the guards that is).

Looking forward to the rest of 2011!