Good afternoon, citizen journalists. Your attention is drawn to a letter from yesterday's Financial Times, wherein a reader suggests that the current economic crisis - and most specifically Gordon Brown's role in it - was foretold a full 12 years ago by none other than red beret-topped punk agitator Captain Sensible.
According to this FT letter, the Cap'n predicted today's horrors in 1996, in a song called Mr Brown's Exploding Wallet, which "asks how the then would-be chancellor was going to make ends meet and pay for his seemingly endless spending promises."
Mr Brown's Exploding Wallet is a track on Captain Sensible's Mad Cows and Englishmen album, and any Lost in Showbiz readers with immediate access to it are invited to verify the FT correspondent's claims.
Even on this evidence, however, it seems that Sensible did better than Mister Irwin Stelzer - in fact, Rupert Murdoch's soi disant representative on earth still looks a shoo-in for the World's Wrongest Man title this year.
(NOTE: As in the heyday of its World's Strongest Man incarnation, John Inverdale would host this teatime telly favourite, which would see the wrongest of the world's economists pitted against each other in a series of eye-wateringly difficult tasks, such as pulling a fire truck 100ft with their bare hands, or having to spot a single sign of the single greatest economic meltdown in living memory.)
