A New Year to stop crises and closures.(Viewpoint essay)

Financial Adviser, January, 2007 by Prestridge, Jeff

It was a quiet New Year's Eve in the Prestridge household. A knees up down the local hostelry - a wonderfully camp and joyous public house - was not for us this year.

Instead, while the boys played upstairs on their assortment of X-boxes, computers and Playstations, we settled down to watch Ken Loach's splendid, if a little meandering film, The Wind That Shakes The Barley. The only interruption was a cacophony of fireworks to mark 2007's arrival, an event that sent our slightly scatty lurcher Tara into the nearest toilet in search of protection and solitude and respite.

After the film had drawn to a sad and somewhat tragic end, and the fireworks had all fallen gracefully to terra firma, I sat down with a small glass of Kir Royale and put together my...

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