Julian Cope presents Head Heritage

There was a minor scandal here in Ireland last week when a politician stood in the Dáil (our equivalent of the House of Commons) and said that "bankers have done more damage to Ireland than the IRA ever did", and that "they should be treated like subversives".

It's a measure of how bad the Irish economy has been damaged that this analysis didn't come from a Sinn Féin TD or someone else on the hard left, but from a TD in one of the main centre-right parties, Fine Gael.

Generally I have no time for FG, but in this case, the guy is clearly correct.