Economic witch doctors looking to give us another dose of bad medicine

NIGHT after night, you can hear the witch doctors, dancing around the fires, rattling those bones.

Sometimes they’re just trying to forecast the future, other times they seem hell-bent on changing it. The trouble is, when the witch doctors start pounding out prescriptions, the rest of us better watch out.

Take last Friday night. Most of us, I suppose, would have been at home with our families. We might have been coming to the end of a long week’s work. If we’re not so lucky, we might have been coming to the end of a long week looking for work. Most of us, I imagine, even at this time of year, would have some little niggling worry in the back of our minds – how to pay the electricity bill, how to afford the school books and uniforms that have to be provided soon.