In My Job I Meet Many Outstanding,

When Gordon Brown Becomes Prime Minister, The Balance Sheet That Reflects His Economic Stewardship Could Look Very Sickly Indeed. He Could Become Labour's Biggest Liability, Not Its Most Marketable Asset.

My Time At Shell Was A Most Valuable Experience Because It Taught Me To Look At The World In A Long-term Way. Shell Takes A 20-year View On Events And Plans For Different Scenarios. It Makes You See The World As A Kind Of Large Matrix.

I'm Now Happily Remarried To A Good Cook, Which Encourages Me To Be Lazy. I Like To Think That I'm A New Man, But Perhaps I'm Not. I Offset It By Doing The Ironing, Though. She Has A Small Farm In The New Forest With A Herd Of Cattle, So She Serves Up A Steak And Kidney Pie Made With Her Own Beef.

Quite Apart From The Problem Of The Vote, It's Bad For The Image Of Parliament That People Take The Trouble To Come Up And Are Not Allowed To See Their Mp.

Regulators Are A Backstop: They Don't Own Banks. The Governance At The Top Of Our Leading Banks Has Been Shown To Be Lamentably Weak. No One At The Top Of Barclays Will Take Responsibility For Systemic Abuse.