'Even The Times now believes that the setbacks of the last few years are proof of the failure of free-market capitalism. How quickly they forget the Thatcher revolution'

'What happens if Greece can't pay its enormous debts back to the ECB? Inevitably, the banks from Germany, the netherlands and Finland will have to pay'

'Perhaps visiting anthropologists would describe us as crazy. But Britain's triumph in the Olympics is a tribute to the wisdom and foresight of its tribal leaders'

'Adair Turner's worry is that the UK's financial sector takes up scarce resources and unfairly distributes resources. Lord Turner is talking rot'