As a politician you always have to be careful what you say, just in case your words ever come back to bite you.

Only a few weeks ago I heard Irwin Stelzer on the BBC's Newsnight say something along the lines that there was nothing he had heard or seen that would make him think that the British economy was in trouble; this was about two weeks before the banking crisis.

Peter Cuthbertson on ConservativeHome has launched a new blog - Pundit Predictions - monitoring the accuracy of the pundits commentary output.

Noises off are being scrutinised, very clever, the tables have turned….