A creeping reassessment of the trade-off between growth and inflation

Having had a rather longer-than-planned meeting with Messrs Pouilly-Fume (a niche player in the beverage space) yesterday evening, I’m not firing on all cylinders today. Luckily I’ve sought to get myself back into prime condition by eating and drinking from all of the main food groups this morning:

In a slight return to the long-forgotten ‘You’re ‘avin’ a graph mate’ feature (see example), the charts below summarise the deaths reported on Wikipedia last month:

• Using my finely honed data analysis and interpretation skills, I would give the following advice to those wishing to minimise the chances of death:
• Don’t be American – lots of them die, every day. Go for something a bit more edgy like Algerians – none of them died at all last month, apparently
• Keep a low profile on Fridays
• Avoid being in your 80s if you can help it – the grim reaper is particularly keen on this cohort.
• Don’t get cancer if you can help it

If you want something altogether more serious, I can highly recommend today’s in depth Guardian video feature, which covers the paradigm-shiftingly crucial topic of …Jamelia eating Marmite for the first time. Probably makes more comforting reading for your average Grauniad reader than the IMF hoofing Gordon Brown in the fiscal knackers in its latest report.