Sub Prime Mortgages. The run on Northern Rock. Credit Crunch. HBOS takeover. Major Banks bail out. Recession inevitable. The sequence of significant moments affecting the future welfare of the planet since last year, hasn't finished yet.
But, some of us who live on more than one level of unreality will find with apologies to Boethius, The Consolation of Spooks. The scarily plausible, brilliantly acted Spooks are back.
I have every intention of marking the occasion with whatever calorie laden sweetie I fancy at 9.00pm Monday night. And for the next 10 weeks there will be at least one TV programme I can be sure posits a worse case scenario than is being painted for the global financial markets – I think.
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