Three things I learnt this week

1) Austerity is the new black. These emergency measures, which typically include cuts to the public sector workforce, a rise in the retirement age, tax hikes and a culling of public sector pensions, are donned as the must-have measures needed to re-balance the struggling economies of multiple members of the Euro Zone. In the run up to this weeks’ Emergency Budget, the word has maintained a slow creep into the mouths of the Whitehall caste, which can only indicate that Britain may well soon become members of Club Austerity. 

         2) Hollywood must make use of worldwide acting talent. Witnessing Denzel Washington’s abysmal Caribbean accent in The Mighty Quinn, an accent so hideous in tone and authenticity that it lends credence to Taye Diggs’ own in ‘How Stella Got Her Groove Back’, is support enough for the integration of international actors into the Hollywood fold. I am not joking. Watch the film, his accent is awful to the point of enjoyment.

         3) There is a world of difference between giving advice and giving orders.