Tried to stay awake and watch this last night on Film Four.

All I can say is that I knew that pony trekking holiday in the Forbidden Zone was a bad idea. I hope they had remembered to take out proper holiday insurance.

How does this work? Bank goes down the tubes requiring pots of cash from the government to prop it up. Yes that's our money. Then the bank's top execs give themselves bonus payments that in some cases are reputed to equal their saleries.

Could they have done this if the bank had failed? And how come they deserve a bonus if the bank is so strapped for cash that it hands out a begging bowl to the Bank of England? I bet its a different story for workers lower down the food chain.

Little wonder they have been told that they forfeit the cash if they talk to the papers