A wunch of bankers

Many readers will have been delighted to see a promise to restrict bankers’ bonuses. I certainly can see no validity in people earning a monster bonus for doing their job properly. But there are three problems with the idea. First, it puts in question the principle of open-ended bonus structures for all business sectors, which is a wholly retrograde step.

Ashes to ashes

A lot of people got very excited and England won back the Ashes. Add to that the hoop-la over Freddy's retirement and there was plenty of material for the media to feast on. Only one problem: it was poor cricket. I can't remember an Ashes series featuring so few top class players nor so many sub-standard individual performances. The question is, does it matter? Especially from the perspective of printwear sales, does the quality of the sport count for less than the excitement level or an England win?