Not select enough

One of the inquisitors on this morning’s Treasury Select Committee meeting revealed his lamentable ignorance by referring to "siren calls from risk managers", meaning siren as in claxon or fire alarm. And everybody else adopted the solecism without any indication of irony.

So now we know why Bankers and Parliamentarians have so let us down; it’s very simply their lack of a classical education.

Funny how much clearer life gets as one gets older.

Or as my old friend Catullus used to say "Totum ut te facient, Fabule, nasum"