Thom Yorke has slammed the “grey haired buffoons” of the world bank and IMF – claiming that although the UK Government has cancelled debt repayments from many of the world’s poorest nations, “some countries will end up paying more”. UK Chancellor Gordon Brown told a Jubilee 2000 rally in London (December 2) that debt repayments to the UK from approximately 40 poor nations, including Cameroon, Tanzania and Mozambique would be wiped clean – or retained in trust funds where they would be returned once those countries reached certain conditions. [read the full story here]

Radiohead news on this day..

• Radiohead set to release The Daily Mail and Staircase December 19 – 2011
• Radiohead add extra Dublin & Milan dates – 2007
• Tickets for Paris, Nimes & Barcelona on sale – 2007
• Maple/Fontana to release ‘In Rainbows’ in Canada – 2007
• Thom on The Eraser remixes – 2006
• Radiohead.tv dvd review – 2004
• 2+2=5 on Long Way Round soundtrack – 2004
• Reviews – 2003
• Montreux Festival Broadcast – 2003
• Radiohead’s Kid A voted best record of 2000 by Pitchfork – 2000