The world needs convincing we have a plan

IT’S hard to be positive in the current climate, but the G20 summit in London on Thursday sent out a signal that nations, not bankers, will dictate our destiny in the future.

That was a good day’s work, and no less a global financier than George Soros expressed the hope that the fairly unified stance by Germany and France on the one hand, with the US and Britain on the other, who wanted more money pumped directly into economies, was a big help.

Gordon Brown got a standing ovation from his peers at the end of the eight-hour day some feared would end in acrimony and with little to show for the leaders’ efforts.