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158 pages, Hardcover
First published January 22, 2013
In effect, what Preising was presenting me with here was a variation on the by-now familiar theme of ‘Where were you when Britain went bankrupt?’. Latterly, this genre had taken over from the earlier ‘Where were you on 9/11?’ […] Likewise, we all now vividly remember the moment when the baby-faced PM in his baby-blue silk tie – an unduly optimistic and frivolous choice in the circumstances, I always thought – commenced his speech with the words ‘In thirteen hundred and forty-five, when King Edward the Third told his Florentine bankers…’ Sure, it had far less visual impact than 9/11, but it's still seared on our collective memory.