<a href="http://blogs.independent.co.uk/openhouse/2008/10/capitalism-gets.html">Ben Chu: Capitalism gets fettered, and breathes a sigh of relief</a>

Monday 13 October 2008 11:33 BST

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One of the piquant ironies of the effective nationalisation of a large chunk of the British high street banking sector this morning is that it leaves those politicians and commentators who have spent their careers ridiculing the clumsiness of the state and scorning any form of government intervention in society utterly bereft.

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