Safety pin of sense has snapped and impaled Britain’s posterior

This novel use of the safety pin is an odd indirect outcropping of Britain’s decision to leave the EU, writes Terry Prone

THE proposition in the financial brokers’ radio ad is improbable, on the face of it.

The ad involves this woman who is just checking back on the facts a caller has just laid out. He was a shareholder in a high-tech startup, right? Right. He sold his shares eight years ago for about €8,000, right? Right. Those shares would now be worth about €90m, right? Right. And their former owner didn’t get the advice of a financial broker before he sold them, right? Gulp. I may not be accurately reporting the figures in the script, but you get the drift.