As an overweight white man with greying hair, the Minister is delighted to report that the most sensible economic voice on television this year to date belongs to an overweight white man with grey hair.

Speaking on Monday night’s Daily Show, the former director of the US National Economic Council, Lawrence Lindsey, spoke more sense on a comedy programme than the combined efforts of Arrivederci and PBD in a year’s worth of Prime Minister’s Questions.

Here he is:

You know my resolution about not buying any new books until I’ve read all the unread books on my bookshelves?  It might have to be broken…