Nobody's Clapping For Crispin

As the bestial forces of German militarism continue to donate their fiendish ventilators, the mainstream idea of a modern Holocaust victim has decided to inject some originality into British punditry by drawing yet another parallel with the 1930s. Crispin Odey, a Brexit profiteer recently graduated to pandemic profiteer, drew criticism from the forces of far-left antisemitism after he and his chums had a bit of a rah-rah about the squillions to be made from gambling, beneath the benignly bleary gaze of some whooping political cowboys, on the various stampedes of a panicky free-market herd. Odey is worth about £800 million, so presumably it was in a soothing spirit that he predicted a global financial crisis on the scale of the Great Depression, which helped place Europe in the power of some well-known friends of business and believers in a flexible labour market. It remains as yet unclear whether this altruistic plea for non-profitable calm will have the effect unquestionably merited by the saintliness of the source.