The Week In View

Unemployment has now reached the figure of 4 million.

Temperatures hit a record high for the tenth day in a row yesterday. It was so hot that rails on many lines buckled, causing hundreds of trains to be cancelled.

Stunning new travel book "A Photographic Kaleidoscpe of Milton Keynes" has now outsold J.K.Rowling's previous bestseller, Harry Potter.

In my view, I say, the Chancellor should read the Virtual Economy page on Fiscal Policy.

It was reported yesterday that prescriptions of Prozac and other anti-depressants have reached their highest levels ever. Said our Virtual Economics Advisor, Andy Beharrell, "stress and depression are well known to be amongst the many costs of unemployment".

You know, I have been thinking. With this weather set to continue, perhaps we should stimulate demand with a really huge civil-engineering project, building irrigation plants in the increasingly parched South of England.

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