It's Brass Knuckles in New York.

And Prom night in Thornton Heath. The important thing though is that it's 20:01 and I'm back from the pub.

Slightly more importantly Christine Lagarde was appointed the new head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) at around 18:00 GMT. As always with the IMF it was American weight that tipped the balance.

In other news the Qataris have provocatively announced that they have re-supplied the Libyan rebels on the Nafusa mountains front. Also if you did not see David Cameron's speech to the Local Government Association (LGA) conference at about 16:00 the short version is; The LGA conference is a meeting of the local senior civil servants and local business leaders that employ the public sector workers who are going on strike on Thursday (30/6/11). Cameron's speech, against a deep (Tory) blue backdrop was a clear attempt to incite those strikers to riot outside the conference venue on Thursday. Although there was an inflammatory question and answer session the conference is being held in Birmingham so I doubt many will bother even if they could afford the train fare. That's still on the tracks btw.