Desperate attempts by certain guilty parties in Congress to shift blame for the credit crash onto deregulation don’t even fool the BBC.

On the other hand, over in London the BBC’s main point man on the crisis appears to be being used by the Brown government to float trial balloons that today destabilized banking stock. Yet another way in which governments the world over have exacerbated the problem.

I put together a handy list of 12 good articles explaining how government helped create the credit crash here. I’ll probably have to expand that by another dozen this week.