It all amounts to a greater role for regulators, whose failings were apparent in the last crisis.
It was Citigroup's primary regulator, though it shared the duties with other regulators whose failings were also cited.
Rather than witch hunts, they are merely long-overdue attempts to clean up an out-of-control seminary system whose failings are well documented and painfully visible.
All over Scotland, there are schools harbouring teachers whose failings are known to fellow members of staff; the headteacher, the union representative and even the local education authority.
He gives us men whose failings are evidence of their humanity and who are, contrary to our revolted sensitivities, no less human because they kill.
Now Washington is engaged in a fierce effort to place blame for the attack not only with the State Department, whose failings were highlighted by the Accountability Review Board appointed by former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, but also with Mrs. Clinton herself.
But these days, even the government appears not to trust the mechanics of the state, given its reliance on extrajudicial solutions – so you have to think superheroes have ceded their natural territory to the very establishment whose failings were supposed to have made them a necessity.
Students, staff and institutions who are involved in the forms of digital education described above are certainly not 'dupes' whose failings are only apparent to the outside academic observer.
In response, someone mainlining MSNBC replies with various arguments that range from the rational ("maybe my safety in shitty chain restaurants is more important than your right to carry around phallic symbols able to create a high body count") to more mystical evocations of Obama as a kind of messianic figure whose failings are actually his efforts to clean up the mess made by the GOP.
Where to see them: Friday, The Other Stage, 6.20pm Jack Peñate Peñate is a sunshiny skiffle chap whose only failing is that he has somehow fallen in with the Notting Hill hipster clique parodied by the song LDN Is a Victim.
