A Happy New Year to you all. Made any resolutions? Peter Preston of the BBC thinks that the only doubt about the economy this year is whether this will a bad recession or something much worse - at least thats what he said on the Today Programme this morning.

That sound like a good planning assumption to me.

Thanks to all of you who mailed over the holidays with thoughts and suggestions for what we might cover in the year to come. I'll try and take it all in to account as the story unfolds.

Meanwhile, lets all be safe out there.