George W. Bush has just published a collection of essays on the financial crisis — if only he'd acted on this wisdom before the event

'The subtitle of the Financial Services Bill should be "We think Gordon Brown got it wrong"'

'Perhaps visiting anthropologists would describe us as crazy. But Britain's triumph in the Olympics is a tribute to the wisdom and foresight of its tribal leaders'

‘If Mervyn King should be awarded a medal for his bravery before a solid redoubt of fact, he also deserves a prize for the exceptional selectiveness of his memory’