As a former Executive Director of the World Bank I know that the columnists of the Financial Times have more voice than what I ever had, and therefore they might need some checks-and-balances.
Would a child shouting out “the Emperor is naked” have his observation published in FT? Would he now need a PhD for that to happen?
Sir, Richard Lambert scares us with his news about how “Too many people are tuning out of the news” November 1, until we reflect upon the sad fact that in some cases that could in fact be good news, given the very low quality of some of the news.