The news is dominated by gloom, international finance and more gloom.  In the midst of this, there is a wonderful story of the controversy over whether Oxford undergraduates should be allowed to wear pyjamas at breakfast.  In times of unrelenting dismalness, we need the ridiculous.

The radio asked the banker “When can you say to the world ‘this is the final figure’?”  Imagine everything you fear, together – are there enough zeros?