Even with Fannie and Freddie inflating the bubble and the Fed and the rest of the Bush Administration weakening the dollar, the crisis never would have become so unprecedentedly destructive but for a seemingly arcane accounting principle called mark-to-market, or fair value, accounting.
Shadow Schools Minister Mark Hoban backed the principle of a behaviour charter - and called for greater autonomy for heads and teachers over how they can exclude badly-behaved pupils.
By convention, speakers in the House of Commons refer to each other as honourable members (and not even on Mark Antony's all honourable men principle).