Hope and history can never rhyme if we rewrite bank guarantee saga

The bust collapsed some peoples’ lives but it did not collapse this economy because very hard political decisions were taken, writes Victoria White

The Night of the Bank Guarantee.” Ba-boom, ba-boom, ba-boom, like Mama’s heartbeat. It’s punchy but reassuring and that’s the way we like our rhythms.

It’s a question of metrics. “The Night of the Bank Guarantee” is in iambic trimeter. Three couples of two syllables, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed, unstressed, stressed.