Commentators keep referring to Mrs Clinton’s experience — at what I ask? She’s never held a diplomatic post, she’s never worked as an academic in a relevant field, she’s not even been an intern at a foreign affairs think tank (e.g. Council on Foreign Relations), she’s never served in the military. So what it is that the commentators see as qualifying her to be SoS, surely not that she’s Mr Clinton’s wife .

Obama’s economics team would seem to be populated with participants and cheerleaders for the very practices that have bought on the current financial crisis. So why should we have any expectations that they can even understand the causes of the crisis, let alone effect any remedies.