The Daily Telegraph published a photograph of the Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, enjoying a day of Test cricket at Lords. The imputation was that he should have been managing the fiscal crisis back at the office.
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What the financial page failed to spot was that one row behind the money men, to the left, was Engliand’s finest composer Sir Harrison Birtwistle, in a rather fetching lavender tie, and Harry seems to be explaining to the former England captain Mike Brearley, now a psychoanalyst, his advanced theory of swing bowling in overcast conditions. Or maybe the size of the Minotaur’s head in his recent opera. Either way, Brears is gripped.
