Between the lines: Forget Private Fraser, we are not all doomed yet

GLOOM. There's a lot of it about. And doom. There's been quite a bit of that too.

In fact there has been so much G&D around, that us hacks are running out of ways to describe the post-credit crunch world.

There are only so many times you can write of storm clouds, hurricanes, whirlwinds and other meteorological metaphors.

I...