“How can you not have insurance?”
“Because I spent my money on the Clapco D29, the most impenetrable lock on the market today. It has only one design flaw, the door must be closed!”
Sir Alan Sugar has called for Thursday to be a "National Happy Day". Speaking in a GMTV interview about the new series of The Apprentice, he called for optimism in the UK press, at least one day a week.
Timesonline
Gordon Brown has used the most high-profile speech of his life to predict that the world’s stricken economy will double in size over the next two decades, with mass producers like China and India becoming giant consumers of goods from the west.
The Telegraph
The worst recession for 100 years! Well… Ed Balls might be right, but he’s much more likely to be wrong. Few of us were there in the Twenties, but the history books tell us it was pretty grim, and will be tough to beat.
Bankers have been through the mill recently, and it might appear that worse news follows bad news, but in actuality, the banks can’t really do a lot worse than they are doing at the moment.