Newsweek Scotland: wedding bells and deficits

I'm in such a state of anticipation over the royal wedding, I've hardly had time to think about the programme this week! Imagine... a lassie who is 13th in line to the throne and loves horse riding gets married to a rugby player with a broken nose. It's hot news, especially for Hello! magazine and the Scottish equivalent, Hiya! which has a Glasgow edition called What Are YOU Lookin' At?!

However I drag myself away to the mundane matters of the budget impasse in Washington and the precarious state of the Euro. These are the trivial matters with which we concern ourselves this week. I'm intrigued by the Democrat/Republican stand-off in the States where the President is asking for permission to borrow even more money. I thought that was ridiculous since they already have borrowing bills so high they're stratospheric and threatening space travel. Why do you think they grounded the shuttle?

Then I heard that was the same argument as that of the Tea Party and changed my mind. Am I secretly turning into a right-wing nutcase? (Please send your emails to the producer) We hear from Ewan Macaskill of the Guardian who's in Washington and is one of at least two Gaels on the programme in order to keep up our quota.

Does the demise of the Euro - if that's what it is - matter to us? Isn't it too boring to think about on a Saturday morning when there's a wedding on... well the producer says it won't be dull if I do my job properly and ask intelligent questions, whatever that means.

We have a really interesting take on incapacity benefit and how the high ideals of Iain Duncan Smith are being traduced. A doctor tells us how it is in Paisley which has its fair share of those unfit to work. And there's the paper review with Angus Macleod (the other gael). But back to the wedding. I wonder if the bride will arrive on horseback... Meanwhile join me tomorrow at 8.