Wide Open

Britain's Head Boy has apparently decided that Alistair Darling cannot be trusted to save the golf courses on his own, and has toddled his dewlaps up to Scotland for a bit of a burble at business leaders. Daveybloke burbled that business should defy the fiend Salmond and "choose openness over narrowness", which is a jolly good argument given Daveybloke's consistent opening and widening of the gaps between rich and poor, between male and female privilege, and between the rhetorical claims of his administration and the actual state of affairs pertaining on the present planet. An unfortunate reminder of this latter void came from the president of the Confabulation of Business Interests, who reminded the Head Boy of the possible economic consequences of pandering to the Farage Falange; but it is unclear at this late stage whether Britain's Head Boy has any more window-dressing to apply on that issue.